Val McDermid: The Wire in the Blood (UK 2010) From the Publisher: Dr Tony Hill, head of the new National Profiling Task Force, sets his team an exercise: they are given the details of missing teenagers and asked to discover any possible links between the cases. Only one officer comes up with a theory -- a theory that is ridiculed by the group -- until one of their number is murdered and mutilated. For Tony Hill, the murder becomes a matter for personal revenge and, joined by colleague Carol Jordan, he embarks on a campaign of psychological terrorism -- a game where hunter and hunted can all too easily be reversed. Val McDermid: The Wire in the Blood. HarperCollins, ISBN 9780007344734 (March, 2010), 533 S., £7.99.
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Val McDermid: The Wire in the Blood (UK 2006) From the Publisher: Young girls are disappearing around the country, and there is nothing to connect them to one another, let alone the killer whose charming manner hides a warped and sick mind. Dr Tony Hill, head of the new National Profiling Task Force, sets his team an exercise: they are given the details of missing teenagers and asked to discover any possible links between the cases. Only one officer comes up with a theory - a theory that is ridiculed by the group... until one of their number is murdered and mutilated. For Tony Hill, the murder becomes a matter for personal revenge and, joined by colleague Carol Jordan, he embarks on a campaign of psychological terrorism - a game where hunter and hunted can all too easily be reversed. Val McDermid: The Wire in the Blood. HarperCollins, ISBN 9780007217120 (February, 2006), 533 S., £6.99.
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Val McDermid: The Wire in the Blood (UK 2003) From the Publisher: Across the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. Authorities areconvinced 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 apattern. They've spent years exploring the psyches of madmen. But sane men killtoo. 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 thepower to seduce. And the will to destroy. No one can believe what he's capableof. No one can imagine what he's already done. And no one can fathom what he'sabout to do next. Until one of Hill's students is murdered-the first move in asick and violent game for three players. Now, of all the killers Hill and Jordanhave hunted, none has been so ruthless, so terrifyingly clever, and sobrilliantly elusive as the killer who's hunting them... Val McDermid: The Wire in the Blood. HarperCollins, ISBN 9780006392927 (April, 2003), 486 S., £6.99.
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Val McDermid: The Wire in the Blood (USA 2002) From the Publisher: 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.. Val McDermid: The Wire in the Blood. One you're trapped in the mind of a killer, there's no way out... St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312983654 (July, 2002), 510 S., $6.99.
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Val McDermid: The Wire in the Blood (UK 1998) From the Publisher: Val McDermid: The Wire in the Blood. HarperCollins, ISBN 000649983X (April, 1998), 495 S., £5.99.
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Val McDermid: The Wire in the Blood (UK 1997) From the Publisher: Nobody moves around inside the messy heads of serial killers like Dr Tony Hill. Now heading up the recently founded National Profiling Task Force, he sets his team an exercise: they are given the details of thirty missing teenagers and asked to use their new' techniques to discover whether there is a sinister link between any of the cases. Only one officer, Shad Bowman, comes up with a concrete theorv, but it is ridiculed by the rest of her group... until the killer murders and hideously mutilates one of their number. Could Bowman's outrageous suspicion possibly be true? For Tom Hill, the murder of a member of his team becomes a matter for personal revenge. Aided by his previous colleague, Carol Jordan, he embarks upon a campaign of psychological terrorism - a game of cat and mouse where the roles of hunter and hunted are all too soon reversed. Val McDermid: The Wire in the Blood. HarperCollins, ISBN 000225591X (September, 1997), 372 S., £16.99.
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