Mind/Reader
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $12.99
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Publisher Description
A cat-and-mouse thriller starring Claudine Carter as the profiler, the beautiful and brilliant psychologist who must stop a serial killer--before he stops her.
Claudine Carter is a profiler, the first forensic psychologist ever appointed to Europol, the European Union's FBI. Brilliant and driven, she creates psychological portraits of criminals from the clues no one else sees. As an investigator, she is cold and detached. As a woman, she is still reeling from the recent shocking suicide of her new husband, which hints at a scandal that could ruin her career.
A serial killer is stalking Europe, leaving a trail of dismembered corpses across fifteen nations. Horribly mutilated and gruesomely displayed, the victims seem to have nothing in common, no clues that link them to one another or to the killer. The authorities can find no trace of the madman--and no hint of when he will strike next.
Claudine must brush her personal feelings aside to concentrate on the case and begin her work with a brilliant forensic pathologist and a maverick computer wizard. But when a rogue within the organization makes her identity known, Claudine faces a new threat. Everywhere she goes, a killer is watching her. And waiting to strike.
In this spine-chilling cat-and-mouse thriller by master writer Brian Freemantle, the hunter becomes the hunted--and the stakes are life and death.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A full complement of subplots drives the action in Freemantle's suspenseful latest, a tale starring Claudine Carter, an Anglo/French forensic psychologist and criminal profiler. Carter works for Europol, a European Union agency that is modeled on the FBI and that actually exists, Freemantle says, although not in the size or strength projected here. A large part of the story concerns infighting among the various countries involved in the fledgling agency. Dr. Carter, whose British husband hanged himself five months earlier, faces a frightening investigation of her personal life just as her biggest professional challenge--a series of gruesome murders and dismemberments, described in full detail--is thrust upon her. Other complications involve her ambitious French boss, Henri Sanglier, who fears that her late father (a failed Interpol agent) found out something damning about Sanglier's Resistance hero father; the serious illness of her mother, a French restaurateur; a possible romance with an Italian pathologist who has secrets of his own; and an ongoing threat to a famous American profiler from a killer he once helped convict. All of the ingredients are colorful in this story, which could be the launch of a promising series, and as usual Freemantle, who also writes the Charlie Muffin series (Bomb Grade, 1997, etc.), serves them up with style and energy.
