Rhodes's latest thriller again features psychologist Alice Quentin (
Crossbones Yard; A Killing of Angels) who has taken a six-month leave from her job to study the treatment of patients with dangerous and severe personality disorders at Northwood, a cutting-edge facility. Among the institutionalized is Louis Kinsella, a notorious child killer. During Quentin's time at the prison, a Kinsella copycat kidnaps a young girl and DI Don Burns wants Quentin to interview Kinsella. Our protagonist has pursued a sabbatical in part to escape the disturbing work she'd had to do with the police in the past, and she finds Kinsella to be particularly troubling. However, since a child's life is at stake, she agrees to the interview and soon is drawn into the investigation more deeply than she would like.
VERDICT Fans of the first two books starring Quentin won't be disappointed; the mood is rife with fear and sexual tension as Quentin and Burns attempt to catch a child killer before he strikes again. [Library marketing.]
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