The Wire in the Blood, Val McDermid
The Wire in the Blood, Val McDermid
3 Rating(s)
List: $24.99 | Sale: $17.50
Club: $12.49

The Wire in the Blood

Author: Val McDermid

Narrator: Michael Tudor Barnes

Unabridged: 15 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/14/2012


Synopsis

Across the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. It's the job of criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to look for a pattern. They've spent years exploring the psyches of madmen. But sane men kill, too. And when they hide in plain sight, they can be difficult to find... He's handsome and talented, rich and famous - a notorious charmer with the power to seduce...and the will to destroy. No one can fathom what he's about to do next. Until one of Hill's students is murdered. Now, of all the killers Hill and Jordan have hunted, none has been so ruthless, so terrifyingly clever, and so brilliantly elusive as the killer who's hunting them...

About Val Mcdermid

Val McDermid is the author of many crime novels and has created the notable characters Lindsay Gordon, Karen Pirie, Kate Brannigan and Tony Hill. Her novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold over 16 million copies. Visit her online at ValMcDermid.com.


Reviews

I am so happy to have finally given Val McDermid’s stellar Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series a go. What a terrific writer Ms. McDermid is! I think what I like most is how much I learn from her, especially about profiling, even though these earlier books were written in the mid to later 1990s. Forensic p......more

Goodreads review by Baba

Carol Jordan & Tony Hill book No. 2 'The Wire In The Blood' is the title the series became known as on TV. Another gripping read from McDermid, as Hill sets up a profiling unit that starts by digging into cold cases. Jordan meanwhile heading a new team investigates a suspected arsonist. The Hill cas......more

I thought the second novel in McDermid’s Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series was better than the first. Although Tony still has his psychological hang-ups, they are not emphasized as strongly in WIRE IN THE BLOOD, and consequently, Tony becomes a more appealing main protagonist. Tony is now training severa......more

1.5 stars Uninspired writing, loose plotting, unconvincing leaps in "intuitive" investigative work, reliance on coincidences to further hero's success, cliche interdepartmental strife, insulting portrayals of most of the police force in order to prop up the savant psychological profiler, half-hearte......more