Val McDermid

My Granny Is a Pirate
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781408309278
RRP: $16.99

My granny is a pirate! She's sailed the seven seas. She captured many pirate ships But was always home for tea. When a family secret about Granny is revealed, we discover all about her fiercesome pirate reputation and her swashbuckling ways - from making other rogueish pirates walk the plank to singing sea shanties to her dog, Jolly Roger. Look again at your granny...could she be a pirate too...

Fever of the Bone
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751543216
RRP: $19.99

'You should have been a detective. If there's one thing the last year has proved, it's how good you are at finding things out. Not simple things. Hard things. Things that nobody is supposed to be able to find out. Things that are buried so deep nobody even thinks twice about them. The sort of things that turn people's lives inside out once they're exposed.' Meet Tony Hill&#...

My Granny Is a Pirate
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781408309261
RRP: $26.99

My granny is a pirate! She's sailed the seven seas. She captured many pirate ships But was always home for tea. When a family secret about Granny is revealed, we discover all about her fiercesome pirate reputation and her swashbuckling ways - from making other rogueish pirates walk the plank to singing sea shanties to her dog, Jolly Roger. Look again at your granny...could she be a pirate to...

The Retribution
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751546057
RRP: $19.99

The unforgettable, gripping new Tony Hill and Carol Jordan novel. There is one serial killer who has shaped and defined police profiler Tony Hill's life. One serial killer whose evil surpasses all others. One serial killer who has the power to chill him to the bone: Jacko Vance. And now Jacko is back in Tony's life. Even more twisted and cunning than ever before, he is focused on wreakin...

Trick of the Dark
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780751543223
RRP: $19.99

A fascinatingly rich and complex mystery lies at the heart of this novel - McDermid s most ambitious and best yet. When Charlie Flint is sent a mysterious package of cuttings about a brutal murder, it instantly grabs her attention. The murder occurred in the grounds of her old Oxford college a groom battered to death just hours after his wedding. As his bride and wedding guests sipped champagne, ...

The Retribution
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781408703205
RRP: $32.99

There is one serial killer who has shaped and defined police profiler Tony Hill's life. One serial killer whose evil surpasses all others. One serial killer who has the power to chill him to the bone: Jacko Vance. And now Jacko is back in Tony's life. Even more twisted and cunning than ever before, he is focused on wreaking revenge on Tony - and DCI Carol Jordan - for the years he has spe...

Beneath the Bleeding
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007344697
RRP: $19.99

The race is on to uncover the identity of a murderer with nothing to lose - and everything to kill for. When Robbie Bishop, star midfielder for the Bradfield Vics, is poisoned by a rare and deadly toxin, profiler Dr Tony Hill and trusted colleague DCI Carol Jordan have their work cut out for them. Robbie was adored, so the public want answers -- but the answers aren't coming, and trails are r...

Killing the Shadows
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007344642
RRP: $21.99

A killer is on the loose and he's blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey - the writers of crime novels. But this murderer is like no other; his bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom on how serial killers operate. And for one woman the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life and death. Professor Fiona Cameron is an academic psychologist who uses c...

The Distant Echo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007344659
RRP: $24.99

SOME THINGS JUST WON'T LET YOU GO The past, for instance. That night in the cemetery. The girl's body in the snow, her blood scarlet against the white ground ... Four a.m. on a freezing Fife morning and four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman lying in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in an ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are the f...

The Mermaids Singing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007344673
RRP: $19.99

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 psychol...

Grave Tattoo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007344604
RRP: $19.99

A 200 year-old-secret is now a matter of life and death. And it could be worth a fortune. It's summer in the Lake District and torrential rain has uncovered a bizarrely tattooed body on a hillside. Could it be linked to centuries-old rumours that surround Fletcher Christian, mutinous First Mate on the ill-fated Bounty, a legendary massacre on the strange island of Pitcairn, and Christian'...

Last Temptation
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007344710
RRP: $19.99

A twisted killer targeting psychologists has left a grisly trail across Europe. Dr Tony Hill, expert at mapping the minds of murderers, is reluctant to get involved. But then the next victim is much closer to home... Meanwhile, his former partner, DCI Carol Jordan, is working undercover in Berlin, on a dangerous operation to trap a millionaire traffiker. When the game turns nasty, Tony is the on...

Place of Execution
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007344666
RRP: $19.99

Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale, a small-inward-looking community which has little contact with the outside world. For the young George Bennett, a...

Torment of Others
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007344758
RRP: $19.99

For some, there is nothing so sweet, so thrilling, as the torment of others ... A dead girl lies on a blood-soaked mattress, her limbs spread in a parody of ecstasy. The scene matches a series of murders which ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secured the conviction of one Derek Tyler. But Tyler's been locked up in a mental institution for two years, barely speaking a word - except to ...

Wire In The Blood
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007344734
RRP: $19.99

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. Nobody gets inside the messy heads of serial killers like Dr Tony Hill. Now heading up a National Profiling Task Force, he sets his team an exercise: they are given the details of thirty missing teenagers and asked to use th...

Darker Domain
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007315482
RRP: $16.99

Twenty-five years ago, the daughter of Scotland's richest man and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom. But Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate is still unknown. When a new clue is discovered in a deserted Tuscan villa - along with grisly evidence of a recent murder - cold case expert DI Karen Pirie is assigned to follow the trail. She's already working a cas...

Beneath The Bleeding
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007243280
RRP: $16.99

The race is on to uncover the identity of a murderer with nothing to lose and everything to kill for. When Robbie Bishop, star midfielder for the Bradfield Vics, is poisoned by a rare and deadly toxin, profiler Dr Tony Hill and trusted colleague DCI Carol Jordan have their work cut out for them. Robbie was adored, so the public want answers but the answers aren't coming, and trails are ru...

Beneath The Bleeding
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007243273
RRP: $32.99

Troubled criminal profiler Dr Tony Hill may have problems of his own but when Bradfield CID need him, he's the best they've got. While the police sometimes view him with the same suspicion as some of their suspects, DCI Carol Jordan is one of the few who appreciates his unique talents. For Tony, the feeling is more than mutual. Both have survived horrifying ordeals of their own. In Bene...

The Grave Tattoo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007142873
RRP: $19.99

Imagine an undiscovered manuscript by William Wordsworth. Imagine that manuscript relates to an unknown version of the mutiny on The Bounty in the words of Fletcher Christian. Imagine what it would be worth, and what passions it would stir There is a strong rumour in the Lake District that, contrary to popular belief, Fletcher Christian was not murdered on Pitcairn Island in 1793. Instead, he secr...

The Last Temptation
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007217137
RRP: $19.95

A twisted killer targeting psychologists has left a grisly trail across Europe. Dr Tony Hill, expert at mapping the minds of murderers, is reluctant to get involved. But then the next victim is much closer to home! Meanwhile, his former partner, DCI Carol Jordan, is working undercover in Berlin, on a dangerous operation to trap a millionaire trafficker. When the game turns nasty, Tony is the onl...

The Mermaids Singing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007217113
RRP: $19.95

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 psychol...

Killing The Shadows
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007217151
RRP: $16.99

A killer is on the loose and he's blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey - the writers of crime novels. But this murderer is like no other; his bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom on how serial killers operate. And for one woman the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life and death. Professor Fiona Cameron is an academic psychologist who uses ...

The Distant Echo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007217168
RRP: $16.99

Some things just won't let you go. The past, for instance. That night in the cemetery. The girl's body in the snow, her blood scarlet against the white ground! Four a.m. on a freezing Fife morning and four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman lying in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in an ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are the four ...

The Torment Of Others
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007142903
RRP: $18.95

Stunning psychological thriller featuring Tony Hill, hero of 'The Wire In The Blood', from one of Britain's bestselling novelists. For some, there is nothing so sweet, so thrilling, as the torment of others . A dead girl lies on a blood-soaked mattress, her limbs spread in a parody of ecstasy. The scene matches a series of murders which ended when irrefutable forensic evidence secur...

The Retribution
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780802120175
RRP: $32.95

Clinical psychologist Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan struggle to recapture celebrity sociopath Jack Vance, who has broken out of prison with the intention of exacting violent revenge....

Fever of the Bone
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780061986482
RRP: $19.95

Criminal profiler Tony Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan investigate the murder of a teenager by a killer who has been grooming prospective victims on a social-networking site. Original. 30,000 first printing....

A Darker Domain
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780061688997
RRP: $19.95

More than twenty years after the 1984 national miners' strike in Scotland, Cold Case Review Team Inspector Karen Pirie stumbles across new evidence that links the cases of a missing strikebreaker and a kidnapping gone wrong....

Blood in the Glens
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781845022501
RRP: $20.95

Murders and unexplained deaths happen wherever there are people and, despite its sparse population, the Highlands have had more than their fair share. Now Jean McLennan, a honorary Sheriff from Wick, investigates some of the most chilling crimes committed in the north over the last sixty years....

A Place of Execution
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312644536
RRP: $19.95

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Beneath the Bleeding
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780061688973
RRP: $19.95

Recovering in the hospital after the city of Bradfield's star soccer player is poisoned and several are killed in a stadium explosion, Dr. Tony Hill tries to make sense of the case, which is complicated by the fact that his usual ally, DCI Carol Jordan, has been pushed to the margins of the investigation by intelligence services. Original. 30,000 first printing....

The Grave Tattoo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312936105
RRP: $10.95

The discovery of a strangely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside gives rise to two-hundred-year-old rumors regarding William Wordsworth's ties to the infamous Fletcher Christian and the mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Bounty, as Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham searches for a long-lost manuscript that could hold the key to the historical mystery. Reprint....

The Torment of Others
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312936099
RRP: $9.95

Still struggling to recover from the violent assault that changed her life, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan returns to Bradfield to resume her career, once again turning to clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill, now working at a high-security mental hospital, to help solve the grotesque murder of a prostitute, a crime that bears a striking resemblance to an earlier series of solved crimes. Re...

The Distant Echo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312994839
RRP: $10.95

Twenty-five years after an unsolved rape and murder, four friends, having been falsely accused of the crime, find themselves targeted by someone who still believes that they are guilty, prompting a search for the real killer....

The Wire in the Blood
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312983659
RRP: $10.95

Called in to investigate the disappearances of dozens of teenage girls across the country, young women whom the authorities believe may be runaways, criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan find themselves matching wits with a famous and wealthy charmer, who happens to be a vicious, elusive, and clever killer. Reprint....

A Darker Domain
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781554680801
RRP: $49.95

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A Hell of a Woman
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780976715733
RRP: $23.95

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A Hell of a Woman
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780979270994
RRP: $33.95

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A Place of Execution
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312979539
RRP: $10.95

Police Inspector George Bennet, who investigated the never-solved disappearance of thirteen-year-old Alison Carter from her cloistered village decades ago, finds shattering new evidence, leading writer Catherine Heathcote to investigate further. Reprint....

Blue Genes
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781932859232
RRP: $18.95

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Booked for Murder
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781932859102
RRP: $16.95

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Clean Break
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781932859225
RRP: $18.95

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Crack Down
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781932859201
RRP: $18.95

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Deadline for Murder
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781932859089
RRP: $16.95

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Hostage To Murder
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781932859027
RRP: $16.95

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Kick Back
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781932859195
RRP: $18.95

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Star Struck
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781932859249
RRP: $18.95

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Stranded
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781932859119
RRP: $18.95

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The Last Temptation
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312986315
RRP: $10.95

Forensic profiler Dr. Tony Hill is called in to track a vicious killer across northern Europe, a case that he takes on when the next victim is an old friend and that is soon complicated by his former partner, Detective Carol Jordan....

The Mermaids Singing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312983604
RRP: $10.95

When the fourth victim of a twisted serial killer is discovered, Detective Inspector Carol Jordan teams up with criminologist Tony Hill to develp a complicated criminal profile, the accuracy of which becomes pivotal to solving the case. By the author of A Place of Execution. Reprint....

Trick of the Dark
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781932859829
RRP: $19.95

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A Darker Domain
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780007243297

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A Darker Domain
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007243303

1984, Fife: Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom payoff goes horribly wrong. She is killed while her son disappears without trace. 2008, Tuscany: A jogger stumbles upon dramatic new evidence that re opens the cold case. For Detective Sergeant Karen Pirie, it's an opportunity to make her mark. But it's an opportunity that comes with a high risk price ...

A Darker Domain
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780061688980

More than twenty years after the 1984 national miners' strike in Scotland, Cold Case Review Team Inspector Karen Pirie stumbles across new evidence that links the cases of a missing strikebreaker and a kidnapping gone wrong....

A Place Of Execution
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780002326766

Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale, a self-contained, insular community that distrusts the outside world. For the young George Bennett, a new pr...

A Place Of Execution
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780002326926

Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December another child goes missing: thirteen year old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale, a self-contained, insular community that distrusts the outside world. For the young George Bennett, a newly pro...

A Place Of Execution
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006512639

Winter 1963: two children have disappeared in Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, the Moors Murderers, have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: 13 year old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale. For the young George Bennett, a newly promoted inspector, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harr...

A Place Of Execution
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007217144

Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezing day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from the isolated Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale, a small-inward-looking community which has little contact with the outside world. For the young George Bennett, a...

Blue Genes
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780002325844

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Dead Beat
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780752827803

Meet Kate Brannigan, a female private detective set to do for Manchester what VI Warshawski has done for Chicago. As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing song-writer Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realise that finding Moira is a prelude to murder . . ....

Fever of the Bone
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781408701997

'You should have been a detective. If there's one thing the last year has proved, it's how good you are at finding things out. Not simple things. Hard things. Things that nobody is supposed to be able to find out. Things that are buried so deep nobody even thinks twice about them. The sort of things that turn people's lives inside out once they're exposed.' Tony Hill's ...

Killing The Shadows
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780002261081

A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey - the writers of crime novels who have turned psychological profilers into the heroes of the nineties. But this killer is like no other. His bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom surrounding the motives and mechanics of how serial killers operate. And for one woman, the desperate hunt to uncover his identit...

Killing The Shadows
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780002261104

A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey: the writers of crime novels who have turned psychological profilers into the heroes of the nineties. But this killer's bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom surrounding the motives and mechanics of how serial killers operate. And for one woman, the desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matte...

Killing The Shadows
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006514183

A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey - the writers of crime novels who have turned psychological profilers into the heroes of the nineties. But this killer is like no other. His bloodlust shatters all the conventional wisdom surrounding the motives and mechanics of how serial killers operate. And for one woman, the desperate hunt to uncover his identit...

The Distant Echo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007142835

A stunning new psychological thriller from Britain's most exciting crime writer, the award-winning Val McDermid . . . Four in the morning, the end of December and snow is smothering St Andrews. Student Alex Gilbey and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumble upon the dying body of a young woman. Rosie Duff has been raped, stabbed and left for dead. And the ...

The Distant Echo
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007142842

A stunning new psychological thriller from Britain's most exciting crime writer, the award-winning Val McDermid . . . Four in the morning, the end of December and snow is smothering St Andrews. Student Alex Gilbey and his three best friends are staggering home from a party when they stumble upon the dying body of a young woman. Rosie Duff has been raped, stabbed and left for dead. And the ...

The Grave Tattoo
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780007142866

A superb psychological thriller in which present-day murder has its roots in the 18th century and the mutiny on the Bounty. When torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, old wives' tales also come swirling to the surface. For centuries Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home....

The Grave Tattoo
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312339210

The discovery of a strangely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside gives rise to two-hundred-year-old rumors regarding William Wordsworth's ties to the infamous Fletcher Christian and the mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Bounty, as Wordsworth specialist Jane Gresham searches for a long-lost manuscript that could hold the key to the historical mystery. 100,000 first printing....

The Last Temptation
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780002261111

A terrifying new psychological chiller featuring clinical psychologist Tony Hill. A clinically efficient killer is murdering psychologists on the Continent. The victims are scattered around at least three different countries, complicating any investigation, but detectives agree on two things - a single killer is at work and a professional should be brought in to profile the murderer. Psychologi...

The Last Temptation
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006514190

A terrifying new psychological chiller featuring clinical psychologist Tony Hill of 'The Mermaids Singing' and 'Wire In The Blood'. A clinically efficient killer is murdering psychologists on the Continent. The victims are scattered around at least three different countries, complicating any investigation, but detectives agree on two things - a single killer is at work and a prof...

The Mermaids Singing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006493587

You always remember the first time. Isn't that what they say about sex? How much more true is it of murder . . . Up till now, the only serial killers Tony Hill had encountered were 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 psycho...

The Mermaids Singing - TV Tie-In
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007143122

You always remember the first time. Isn't that what they say about sex? How much more true is it of murder . . . Up till now, the only serial killers Tony Hill had encountered were 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 psycho...

The Retribution
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781408703199

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The Torment Of Others
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007142897

A stunning new psychological thriller featuring Tony Hill, hero of 'The Wire In The Blood', from one of Britain's bestselling novelists. Clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan face the toughest challenge of their careers when they are confronted with an "impossible" series of murders. Back in Bradfield after her traumatic experiences in ...

The Wire In The Blood
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780006499831

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. Nobody gets inside the messy heads of serial killers like Dr Tony Hill. Now heading up a National Profiling Task Force, he sets his team an exercise: they are given the details of missing teenagers and asked to discover wh...

The Wire In The Blood
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007217120

Taut, suspenseful and ferociously readable thriller featuring psychological profiler Dr Tony Hill, hero of the hugely successful television series 'The Wire In The Blood'. 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. Nobody gets inside the messy heads of ser...

The Wire In The Blood - TV Tie-In
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007143115

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. Nobody gets inside the messy heads of serial killers like Dr Tony Hill. Now heading up a National Profiling Task Force, he sets his team an exercise: they are given the details of missing teenagers and asked to discover wh...