Inhalt: _McDermid is as smooth a practitioner of crime fiction as anyone out there. . . . She's the best we've got.”_New York Times Book ReviewInternationally best-selling crime writer Val McDermid's work speaks for itself: her books have sold millions of copies worldwide, won numerous accolades, and attracted a devoted following of readers around the globe. Her latest, Cross and Burn, picks up where The Retribution left off: following the best crime-fighting team in the UK_clinical psychologist Tony Hill and police detective Carol Jordan_who when we last saw them were barely speaking, and whose relationship will now be challenged even further.Guilt and grief have driven a wedge between long time crime-fighting partners psychologist Tony Hill and ex-DCI Carol Jordan. But just because they're not talking doesn't mean the killing stops.Someone is killing women. Women who bear an unsettling...