Review by Brian Lowen 30th July, 09.
Also the title of the TV series based on this book.
Young girls are disappearing around the country and there is nothing to connect them to one another, let alone the killer, whose charming manner hides a warped and sick mind.
Head of the new National Profiling Task Force, Dr Tony Hill, sets his team an exercise: they are given the details of missing teenagers and asked to discover any possible links between the cases. Only one officer – Shaz, his brightest young officer, comes up with a theory – a theory that is ridiculed by the rest of the group – until Shaz is horribly killed when following up her lead on her own.
The book begins with a lot of interesting theory detailing the profession of a profiler – how a killer can be identified by sifting through all the available evidence until a common denominator can be found, however small, that links them together and then building on that detail to arrive at a profile of the killer.
Tony Hill is joined again by his former colleague, Carol Jordan, but they have to fight an uphill battle against the scepticism and lack of enthusiasm shown by the local police for these specialist profilers.
After Shaz’s murder the story really gets going as the evidence is gradually pieced together to convict the killer – you know who it is from the beginning of the book.
An intricate plot, cleverly woven, with a sub plot concerning the hunt for a serial arsonist.
A great book, gripping story, difficult to put down. I found the ending a bit disappointing as although the killer is caught you are left in doubt as to whether the conviction will succeed.
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