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.
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780008134761Number of pages: 464Weight: 320 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 28 mmEdition: 20th Anniversary edition
MEDIA 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
Val McDermid
Often hailed as the modern Queen of Crime,Scottish author Val McDermid's work includes several bestselling series,including the Lindsay Gordon,Kate Brannigan,Inspector Karen Pirie series and the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series,the first of which,The Mermaids Singing,won the Crime Writers'Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. The Hill Jordan series was adapted for the highly successful television drama; Wire in the Blood.
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One of Waterstones'very favourite authors,Lee Child sprang from redundancy at Granada Television in 1995 to rise to thriller-writing pre-eminence with his sequence of stories featuring ex-military policeman Jack Reacher. A huge draw at countless Waterstones events,working with Lee over the years has for us always been an absolute pleasure.
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