### Review It's perhaps fitting that for McDermid's 25th novel she's revisited her most thrillingly murderous creation, Jacko Vance (*Daily Mirror* ) Val McDermid's 25th novel is stunningly good, but it comes with a health warning. It is truly disturbing (*The Times* ) McDermid never pull
Tony Hill & Carol Jordan - 02 - The Wire in the Blood
โ Scribed by McDermid, Val
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 258 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Review
"Fine, intelligent, griping."--The New York Times
"A superb psychological thriller."--Cosmopolitan
"Shocking...stunningly exciting, horrifyingly good."--Ruth Rendell
Product Description
Across the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. Authorities are convinced they're runaways with just the bad luck of the draw to connect them. 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 believe what he's capable of. No one can imagine what he's already done. And no one can fathom what he's about to do next. Until one of Hill's students is murdered--the first move in a sick and violent game for three players. 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...
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