"McDermid is at the top of her form in this sizzling story. . . . You
will not put this one down until the final sentence."--Margaret Cannon,
The Globe and Mail
"Hill and Jordan dominate as brilliantly as ever."--The Times (Saturday
Review) (UK)
Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan novels are thrillers at their
best--unbearably suspenseful, psychologically complex, expertly plotted
and impossible to predict--and they have riveted millions worldwide. As
Cross and Burn opens, Tony and Carol are facing the biggest challenge
of their professional lives: how to live without each other. No one has
seen Carol in three months, and without her, the police brass no longer
want Tony's services. Even more damaging is the fact that they both hold
Tony responsible for the bloody havoc their last case wreaked on Carol's
life and family, and Carol has sworn she'll never speak to Tony again.
But just because Tony and Carol's relationship is finished doesn't mean
the killing is. A body has been discovered in an abandoned flat
inhabited by squatters. As connections to other missing or dead women
emerge, a horrifying pattern becomes clear: someone is killing women,
all of whom bear a striking resemblance to Carol Jordan. And when the
evidence begins to point in a disturbing and unexpected direction,
thinking the unthinkable seems the only possible answer.
"Pure reading joy! Welcome back, queen of crime Val McDermid."--The
Florida Times-Union
"Fiendishly clever . . . The ingenious way in which [the villain]
tests the mettle of Hill and Jordan is not to be missed by fans of the
unusual sleuthing duo."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
