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A quiet night on a country road. The stillness shattered by a car engulfed in flames, and a burned body discovered in the driver's seat. As the investigation unfolds, DCI Carol Jordan and psychological profiler Tony Hill quickly realise that this is more than just a tragic accident. And so begins the hunt for a truly terrifying killer, someone who believes he is invisible, untraceable and untouchable.
As other victims are found to have met the same terrible fate, and with more women at risk, Tony and Carol are drawn into a dark and twisted web of fear and revenge that will force them to question their own ideas of justice . .
A pulse-pounding mystery from the number one bestseller.
Read an Extract from Insidious Intent by Val McDermid
Anselm pulled up twenty metres away, turning on his hazard lights. Not that anybody was likely to be down here at this time of night on a Sunday. He jumped down and walked towards the car. As he approached, heat engulfed him. He'd had a sauna once, when he'd got his brother to look after the farm for a weekend and he'd taken Nell to a fancy hotel in Harrogate. He couldn't see the point of it, getting all hot and bothered from choice. Nell had liked it, though. She'd seen a home version in IKEA once, pointed it out wistfully to him, but he thought it was a waste of money that could be better spent on a new bathroom with a proper shower.
This wall of heat felt like that sauna, though it smelled nothing like the herby miasma in there. This smelled of burnt plastic and grease, the sort of thing that would make you sick if you breathed in too much of it. Anselm couldn't see anything inside the car, and although flames were licking out of the holes where the windows should have been, they soon vanished in the night. The council grit bin had melted into a shapeless yellow blob streaked with black, but apart from that, it all looked pretty localised. The odd spark was landing in his field but he didn't think there was any prospect of one catching hold.
He walked back to the Land Rover, pondering. He could call out the fire brigade and the police, but there didn't seem much point. There was no danger to life, limb, livestock or land; nobody would thank him for being pulled out to the back of beyond on a Sunday evening over some joyriders setting fire to a stolen car, which was what this likely was.
Anselm drove back up the track towards the smudge of light that was his home. Morning would be soon enough to talk to the local bobby.
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- Contributor: Val McDermid
- Imprint: Sphere
- ISBN13: 9780751568240
- Number of Pages: 528
- Packaged Dimensions: 126x196x36mm
- Packaged Weight: 360
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Release Date: 2018-02-22
- Series: Tony Hill and Carol Jordan
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into forty languages, and have sold over nineteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year and the LA Times Book of the Year Award. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010 and received the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award in 2011. In 2016, Val received the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award at the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival and in 2017 received the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime, and was elected a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Val has served as a judge for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, and was Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize in 2017. She is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates, is an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford and a Professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She writes full time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.
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