Cross and Burn by Val Mcdermid

Cross and Burn by Val Mcdermid

Buy Val McDermid's masterful new thriller, 1989, now! __________________ 'The queen of crime is still at the top of her game' Independent 'No one can plot or tell a story like she can' Daily Express Someone is brutally killing women. Women who bear a striking resemblance to former DCI Carol Jordan. The connection is too strong to ignore and soon psychological profiler Tony Hill finds himself dangerously close to the investigation, just as the killer is closing in on his next target. This is a killer like no other, hell-bent on inflicting the most severe and grotesque punishment on his prey. As the case becomes ever-more complex and boundaries begin to blur, Tony and Carol must work together once more to try and save the victims, and themselves. A breathless, thrilling mystery from the number one bestseller. __________________ Praise for Val McDermid: 'It grabs the reader by the throat and never lets go' Daily Mail 'So gripping it puts your life on hold' The Times 'As good a psychological thriller as it is possible to get' Sunday Express 'One of today's most accomplished crime writers' Literary Review 'McDermid remains unrivalled' Observer This is the eighth book in the bestselling Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series.

Dark, tense and pacy, McDermid's fans will love this * Irish Sunday Mirror *
McDermid is as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there * New York Times Book Review *
McDermid earns her customary high marks for planting clues, mastering procedural detail and maintaining suspense as the net closesAs usual, however, the endlessly fraught relationships among the continuing characters are the real draw. * Kirkus Reviews *
McDermid's fiendishly clever eighth novel featuring forensic psychologist Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan... is not to be missed * Publisher's Weekly *
The book can be read as a story about a hunter/ killer. But it is also a fascinating study of his opponents, the infinitely complex Hill and the clever Sleuth Jordan * Literary Review *

Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into forty languages, and have sold over nineteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. 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 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and in 2017 received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime, and was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Val has served as a judge for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017. She is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates, is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford and a Professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She writes full time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife. X @valmcdermid Instagram @quineofcrime

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ISBN 13	9780751551273
ISBN 10	0751551279
Title	Cross and Burn
Author	Val Mcdermid
Series	Tony Hill And Carol Jordan
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2014-02-27
Number of pages	496
Prizes	Short-listed for CrimeFest e-Dunnit Awards 2014 (UK)
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