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Narrated by Gerard Doyle “Carol and Tony’s personal and professional reunion plays well against the backdrop of a classic McDermid psychological thriller, balancing police-procedural details and profiling acumen.”—Booklist Widely recognized as one of our finest crime writers, with numerous accolades and legions of devoted readers worldwide, internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is back, and so are psychologist Tony Hill and former police detective Carol Jordan. Splinter the Silence is an adrenaline-fueled roller coaster guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat: a masterful novel centered on the mysterious deaths of several women who were the victims of vicious cyberbullying. Is it violence if it’s virtual? The outspoken women targeted by increasingly cruel Internet trolls and bullies would say so. For some of them, the torrents of bile and vicious threats prove too much. They begin to silence themselves in a series of high-profile suicides. Or do they? Tony Hill isn’t convinced. But he’s the only one. After departing the force in a storm of grief, Carol Jordan is too busy messing up her life to care. Until she gets an unexpected second chance. Now it’s game on, and the stakes have never been higher. Unpredictable and a riveting read, Splinter the Silence is a timely and disturbing look at the way the anonymity of the Internet enables abuse—and a story of two of crime’s most formidable enemies, confronting not just a killer but demons of their own. A masterful, compulsive tale, it is sure to satisfy both longtime fans as well as new readers, and cements Val McDermid’s place as one of the best crime writers in the business.