The Mermaids Singing

Author(s): Val McDermid

Crime

Gold Dagger Award winning serial killer thriller introducing Tony Hill, criminal profiler and now hero of 'The Wire in the Blood', the hugely successful TV drama series. You always remember the first time. Isn't that what they say about sex? How much more true it is of murder! Up till now, the only serial killers Tony Hill had encountered were safely behind bars. This one's different -- this one's on the loose. In the northern town of Bradfield four men have been found mutilated and tortured. Fear grips the city; no man feels safe. Clinical psychologist Tony Hill is brought in to profile the killer. A man with more than enough sexual problems of his own, Tony himself becomes the unsuspecting target in a battle of wits and wills where he has to use every ounce of his professional nerve to survive. A tense, brilliantly written psychological thriller, The Mermaids Singing explores the tormented mind of a serial killer unlike any the world of fiction has ever seen.


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Praise for The Mermaids Singing: 'Terrifying but stylish and compassionate! Truly, horribly good' Mail on Sunday 'Gripping, intelligent stuff' The Times 'Compelling and shocking' Minette Walters Praise for Val McDermid: The real mistress of pychological gripping thrillers' Jenni Murray, Daily Express 'McDermid's capacity to enter the warped mind of a deviant criminal is shiveringly convincing' Marcel Berlins, The Times 'McDermid has become our leading pathologist of everyday evil. The subtle orchestration of terror is masterful' Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian

Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years, spending the last three as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. She divides her time between Northumberland and Cheshire.

General Fields

  • : 9780007344673
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : March 2010
  • : United Kingdom
  • : October 2010
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Val McDermid
  • : Paperback
  • : 823.914
  • : 400
  • : Crime & mystery