Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Mermaids Singing | 1995 | Tony Hill / Carol Jordan | Buy |
| 2 | The Wire In The Blood | 1997 | Tony Hill / Carol Jordan | Buy |
| 3 | The Last Temptation | 2002 | Tony Hill / Carol Jordan | Buy |
| 4 | The Torment of Others | 2004 | Tony Hill / Carol Jordan | Buy |
| 5 | Beneath the Bleeding | 2007 | Tony Hill / Carol Jordan | Buy |
| 6 | Fever of the Bone | 2009 | Tony Hill / Carol Jordan | Buy |
| 7 | The Retribution | 2011 | Tony Hill / Carol Jordan | Buy |
| 8 | Cross and Burn | 2013 | Tony Hill / Carol Jordan | Buy |
| 9 | Splinter the Silence | 2015 | Tony Hill / Carol Jordan | Buy |
| 10 | Insidious Intent | 2017 | Tony Hill / Carol Jordan | Buy |
| 11 | Footloose | 2019 | Tony Hill / Carol Jordan | Buy |
| 12 | How the Dead Speak | 2019 | Tony Hill / Carol Jordan | Buy |
Val McDermid’s Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series is one of the most acclaimed crime fiction partnerships in modern British writing. Tony Hill is a clinical psychologist whose ability to get inside criminal minds makes him invaluable to the police, while Carol Jordan is the detective who turns his insights into arrests. Their complicated relationship gives the series its emotional core.
The 12 novels span 24 years, from The Mermaids Singing in 1995 to How the Dead Speak in 2019. The series won the CWA Gold Dagger with its first entry and was adapted into the television series Wire in the Blood. McDermid received the CWA Diamond Dagger for lifetime contribution to crime fiction in 2010.