Insidious Intent

Murdered people don’t kill themselves…

When charred human remains are discovered in the driver's seat of a burning car, DCI Carol Jordan and psychological profiler Tony Hill are brought in to investigate. They soon discover that what appeared to be a terrible accident is, in fact, murder.

Delving deeper into the case, they begin the dangerous hunt for a most sinister killer with the power to inflict untold fear and pain on their victims.

Book Ten in the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series

The Tony Hill and Carol Jordan Series in reading order: The Mermaids Singing, The Wire in the Blood, The Last Temptation, The Torment of Others, Beneath the Bleeding, Fever of the Bone, The Retribution, Cross and Burn, Splinter the Silence, Insidious Intent.

Hailing from Kirkcaldy on the East Coast of Scotland, Val McDermid is a playwright, journalist and, first and foremost, one of the world’s most popular and consistently inventive crime writers. Undoubtedly her best-known creation is the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series, beginning with The Mermaids Singing, adapted for television as the drama Wire in the Blood. Her other popular series include the Kate Brannigan series, originating with Dead Beat, novels featuring the crime journalist Lindsey Gordon, the first of which is Reporting for Murder and most recently The Distant Echo launched the Karen Pirie series. Read more about Val McDermid and her work.