{"product_id":"the-wire-in-the-blood-the-sensational-crime-bestseller-from-the-queen-of-crime-val-mcdermid-book-2-tony-hill-and-carol-jordan","title":"The Wire in the Blood: The sensational crime bestseller from the Queen of Crime Val McDermid: Book 2 (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan)","description":"Product Description\n\nThe ferociously readable, #1 bestselling crime thriller that led to the much-loved ITV show…\n\n\n‘Wholly satisfying’ Ian Rankin\n\nYoung girls are disappearing nationwide\nDr Tony Hill sets his team a task: find a link between the cases.\nOnly one officer comes up with a theory, but it’s too wild… that is, until one of their number is murdered and mutilated.\nTony has started a game – one where hunter and hunted can all too easily be reversed. He has baited an aggressor whose charming manner hides a warped and sick mind…\nWhen a killer is hiding in plain sight\nWho can stop them?\n‘Truly frightening’ The Times\n‘Sly and sophisticated, weaving the mundane with the stomach-churningly depraved’ Express\n\nReview\n\n'The book [has] a sense of gravitas and intelligence utterly beyond lesser writers in the field … This is a wholly satisfying read which cleverly subverts tradition and expectation’ Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday\n'This is a shocking book, stunningly exciting, horrifyingly good. It is so convincing that one fears reality may be like this and these events the awful truth' Ruth Rendell\n'The Wire in the Blood is truly frightening, McDermid's capacity to enter the warped mind of a deviant criminal is shiveringly convincing … Tony Hill, driven and disturbed, is an appealing and original character. This is a writer who just gets better and better' The Times\n'Terrific chiller from Manchester's answer to Thomas Harris … Thank God for Tony Hill and psychological profiling' Guardian\n'Val McDermid is an accomplished storyteller, and this scary, fast-moving tale is engrossing' Daily Telegraph\n\nBook Description\n\nThe sensational crime bestseller from the Queen of Crime Val McDermid\n\nAbout the Author\n\nVal McDermid is a No.1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold more than sixteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010. Val writes full time and lives in Edinburgh and the East Neuk of Fife.","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40271914827861,"sku":"9780008453657N","price":5.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/7853465a-ff60-46f9-aace-61a319ea497a.jpg?v=1661873497","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-wire-in-the-blood-the-sensational-crime-bestseller-from-the-queen-of-crime-val-mcdermid-book-2-tony-hill-and-carol-jordan","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}