It Takes One
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4.2 • 49 Ratings
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- $4.99
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Publisher Description
"Deliciously twisted . . . Kate Kessler's positively riveting It Takes One boasts a knockout concept and a thoroughly unique and exciting protagonist, a savvy criminal psychologist with murderous skeletons in her own closet." -- Sara Blaedel, #1 internationally bestselling author
Criminal psychologist Audrey Harte is returning home after seven years.
Less than 24 hours later, her best friend is murdered.
Now, Audrey is both the prime suspect and the only person who can solve the case. . .
It Takes One is the opening to a thriller series where a criminal psychologist uses her own dark past to help law enforcement catch dangerous killers.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Criminal psychologist Audrey Harte, the feisty heroine of Kessler's tense, fast-paced debut, sometimes appears as an expert on When Kids Kill, a TV show based in Los Angeles. Years ago in her hometown of Edgeport, Maine, Audrey helped her best friend, 12-year-old Maggie Jones McGann, murder Maggie's father, who had been molesting Maggie. After spending time in a juvenile correction facility, Audrey went on to earn a Ph.D. When Audrey returns to Edgeport, where she hasn't been in seven years, for her mother's birthday, she faces an angry sister, a mother who blames her for being involved in a murder, and a town where everyone views her as a danger. Her first night, she inadvertently meets Maggie, and they have a fight in public. When Maggie is found dead on the beach the next morning, Audrey is the obvious suspect. In her effort to prove her innocence, Audrey reconnects with Jake Tripp, her teenage love, who brings back all the confusing and ambivalent feelings from their past. The action builds to compelling and unexpected conclusion.
Customer Reviews
Shocked
The story had me analyzing every character and analyzing each action taken. Each guess was incorrect with a big surprise on who the killer was and why they did it. Highly recommend it to any True Crime lover
Great series
I’ll say the same thing about each book in this series and that I could not put them down. The characters are unique and complicated and the author articulates it all so well. Although the story has a theme, it is all the bits and pieces circulating that make up an overall thoroughly enjoyable read.
The most insightful horror mystery novel I've read!
The author is a gifted and intelligent writer who knows how to articulate Audrey's unusual perspective on the situation as a psychologist.