A killer's mind
(Adult Book)

"Thoughts of the killer still roaming free in the streets chilled Zoes heart, but it fascinated her to[o] ... She took out the scrapbook from under the bed and opened it to the next free page. Then she carefully cut the article from the paper. She leaned her back against the door, prepared to shove the paper and scrapbook under the be if her parents suddenly barged in. She taped the article into the scrapbook and read it again. Progress. What could that mean? Were they about to arrest the killer? The man who grabbed women at night, stripping them and killing them? The monster? That was the papers favorite word when mentioning the killer. A monster on the loose. A monster preying on helpless women. A monster hiding in Maynard. But Zoe realized the horrifying truth. This wasn't a monster. This wasnt some sort of alien or a scaly creature rising from the sewers. Much worse. It was a man."

Three Chicago women have been found strangled, embalmed, and posed as if still alive. Doubting the findings of the local PD's profiler, The FBI calls on forensic psychologist Zoe Bentley to investigate. She quickly gets off on the wrong foot with her new partner, Special Agent Tatum Gray, but together,they must descend into a serial killer's psyche and untangle his twisted fantasies. When the contents of three inconspicuous envelopes reveal a chilling connection to gruesome murders from Zoe's childhood, suddenly the hunter becomes the hunted. -- adapted from jacket