Beneath the Bleeding (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, Book 5) McDermid, Val

A stadium bombing. A star footballer poisoned. And a killer who's always three steps ahead. Val McDermid's fifth Tony Hill and Carol Jordan novel is a double-threat thriller where the crime feels personal and the stakes couldn't be higher. Clinical psychologist Tony Hill is called in to profile a bomber targeting Bradfield Victoria's football ground, while DCI Carol Jordan races to solve the murder of the team's beloved striker — deaths that feel connected but refuse to line up. McDermid weaves industrial sabotage, sports celebrity culture, and psychological warfare into a plot that's as much about obsession as it is about justice. The Tony/Carol dynamic deepens here, all unspoken tension and professional respect fraying at the edges. For fans of complex procedurals where the profiler is as damaged as the killer, and the city itself becomes a character. McDermid never goes soft on her readers.