He performs his
profane ceremony in a wooded Minneapolis park, anointing his victims, then
setting the bodies ablaze. He has already claimed three lives, and he won’t
stop there. Only this time there is a witness. But she isn’t talking.
Enter Kate Conlan,
former FBI agent turned victim/witness advocate. Not even she can tell if the reluctant
witness is a potential victim or something more troubling still. Her superiors
are interested only because the latest victim may be the daughter of Peter
Bondurant, an enigmatic billionaire. When Peter pulls strings, Special Agent
John Quinn gets assigned to the case. But the FBI’s ace profiler of serial
killers is the last person Kate wants to work with, not with their troubled
history. Now she faces the most difficult role of her career-and her life. For
she’s the only woman who has what it takes to stop the killer-and the one woman
he wants next.
Gahhhh. This book was pretty terrifying. I have no idea why,
but I just had a sudden urge for a good thriller. This one is well worthy of a
four. I absolutely loved that I was completely wrong about the killer. I was so
far off base it wasn’t even funny. They never even suspected the guy I thought
it was. The suspense was great, especially towards the end, but the beginning
was a little harder to get into. I’ve read a few of her other books (which gave
me nightmares), and I’ve found that I love the way she starts the book like she
did in the others I’ve read, from the killers perspective. This book is mildly gruesome,
and if you have a really weak stomach, you’re probably going to want to hurl a
few times. While it may get graphic, it isn’t as bad as it could be, and I definitely
count that in the plus column. I guess this is the first in a series, kind of,
mostly surrounding Kovac and Liska, two detectives that I really liked in the
story, even if the story wasn’t based around them. I’m interested in seeing
where they go, and apparently a glutton for nightmares that are sure to come in
the next few books.
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