THE WIRE IN THE BLOOD

Book ID/图书代码： 05430007B12715

English Summary/英文概要： Young girls are disappearing around the country. Everyone assumes they are teenage runaways, headed for the big city and bright lights. There is nothing to connect them to each other, let alone the killer whose charming manner hides a warped and sick mind.

Nobody moves around inside the messy heads of serial killers like Dr Tony Hill. Now heading up the recently founded National Profiling Task Force, he sets his team an exercise: they are given the details of thirty missing teenagers and asked to use their new techniques to discover whether there is a sinister link between any of the cases. Only one officer comes up with a concrete theory, but it is ridiculed by the rest of her group ... until a killer murders and mutilates one of their number.

Could the outrageous suspicion possibly be true? For Tony Hill, the murder of a member of his team becomes a matter for personal revenge. Aided by his previous colleague, Carol Jordan, he embarks upon a campaign of psychological terrorism - a game of cat and mouse where the roles of hunter and hunted are all too easily reversed.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 乡下的女孩一个个接着消失，村民觉得她们有可能禁不住大城市灯红酒绿的诱惑，都进城去了。这些失踪的女孩相互间没有任何关系，和那个气度翩翩，却道貌岸然的杀手之间更是看不出有任何联系。

Tony Hill一组决定对此案件展开调查，他们获取了三十个失踪女孩的详细信息，并运用新科技来调查这些案件是否有任何联系。其中有一个官员给出了肯定的答案，却引来大家的讽刺，直至他们中的其中一员被谋杀分尸。

这种令人不寒而栗的猜测有没有可能是真的呢？对Tony而言，小组中的成员被杀催促着他赶快破案，为同伴复仇。在前任搭档Carol Jordan的帮助下，Tony开始着手心理学恐怖主义运动，在这场猫捉老鼠的游戏中，谁是猫？谁是老鼠？身份被颠倒，大家无从知晓。(YM)

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About the Author/作者介绍： VAL McDERMID grew up in a Scottish mining community and then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years and is now a full-time writer and lives in South Manchester. In 1995, she won the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year. Her most recent novel, A PLACE OF EXECUTION, won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Val McDERMID在苏格兰某个煤矿区长大，随后到牛津学习英语。她担任记者工作有16年之久，目前住在曼彻斯特南部从事全职写作。1995年，作者获取年度最佳犯罪小说金匕首奖。作者最新小说A Place of Execution获得《洛杉矶时报》图书奖，埃德加最佳小说提名奖，并被列入《纽约时报》最受关注图书之一。

作者个人网页：http://www.valmcdermid.com/index.html

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