The Mermaids Singing The Mermaids Singing

Publisher Description

In this special 20th anniversary edition, Lee Child introduces the Gold Dagger award-winning serial killer thriller that began the Number One bestselling crime series featuring clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill, hero of TV’s much-loved Wire in the Blood.

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.

Four men have been found mutilated and tortured. As fear grips the city, the police turn to clinical psychologist Tony Hill for a profile of the killer. But soon Tony 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, beautifully written psychological thriller, The Mermaids Singing explores the tormented mind of a serial killer unlike any the world of fiction has ever seen.

Reviews

'Compelling and shocking', Minette Walters

'Terrifying but stylish, cruel and compassionate. Truly, horribly good' Frances Fyfield , Mail on Sunday

'Gripping, intelligent stuff' The Times

'A superb psychological thriller' Cosmopolitan

'A deliciously gruesome serial killer thriller. Ms McDermid finds new ways to shock and revolt us' New York Times

About the author

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 years as Northern Bureau Chief of a national Sunday tabloid. Now a full-time writer, she divides her time between Cheshire and Northumberland. Her novels have won international acclaim and a number of prestigious awards, including the Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year, the Anthony Award for best novel, and the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award. Her thriller series featuring criminal profiler Tony Hill has been adapted into the much-loved TV series Wire in the Blood.

GENRE
Crime & Thrillers
RELEASED
2009
22 May
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
HarperCollins
SIZE
3
MB

Customer Reviews

Mwsh ,

Great read

I have only started reading Val Mcdermids books in the last year.
In relation to The singing Mermaids, I found the book easy to read as I am very much into crime & thrillers and books that make you think of the plot as you are reading. McDermid is able to write in a manner that allows you to paint a picture in your mind of the scene the characters are at and what they are seeing.
Great read

Choosey thank goodness ,

The Mermaids Singing

Dire! Psycho-babble and depraved. I skipped so many pages because they were sickening.

teraif ,

The Mermaids Singing

I stopped reading this book. It was cliche but also deeply unpleasant. I read for pleasure and gleeful description of animal cruelty is ....words fail me. Horrible truly.

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