I plan to follow Zoe Bentley on her next adventure for novel #2 IN THE DARKNESS due to be released on July 16, 2019. Other than that, this novel did what it set out to and did it well. You know that scene, well that scene is a single chapter in this novel. You know that scene at the beginning of Law and Order, the one where you know that the person doing whatever they are doing will stumble onto a murder victim. Then there is one more point of view, follow me here. I can understand the viewpoint of a potential victim but I don’t want to get inside a character witness’s point of view. There are three other single chapter points of view that are not as successful. The killer, Zoe, and Tatum are the main points of view and they work. The only weakness I can point out is about the points of view. The television show is about the agents at the BAU investigating serial killer cases and that is what this novel does as well. If that intrigues you then I can recommend this novel to you. It’s almost like a written version of the television show Criminal Minds. This novel is a tight thriller with enough surprises to keep the reader guessing. Both cases intersect in unpredictable ways and resolve at the climax of the novel. The reader learns Zoe’s backstory through flashback chapters set in Maynard in the fall of 1997 when she was a girl and a serial killer was operating in her hometown. Zoe comes to Chicago and they investigate the case but their unorthodox methods alienate them from Lieutenant Martinez and he sends them away when they screw up. Tatum requests that Mancuso send Zoe to help him. He works with Lieutenant Martinez of the Chicago PD and an ineffective profiler named Dr. Tatum leaves Marvin to watch his home and goes to Chicago. Tatum’s life is complicated by caring for his recently widowed grandfather, Marvin, who lived with him in Los Angeles and came with him to Virginia. They meet briefly before Mancuso sends Tatum to Chicago. Unit Chief Mancuso is the head of the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) of the FBI who assigns Zoe a case about a Highway Serial Killer before Agent Tatum arrives at Quantico. She assisted in cases in Boston but has moved to Dale City, Virginia to help the FBI at Quantico. in clinical psychology and a JD from Harvard. The lead character is Zoe Bentley who is from Maynard, Massachusetts. The first chapter of the novel is from the perspective of an unnamed killer who will become known as the Strangling Undertaker. Can they set aside their differences to catch the killer? Summary They fight the serial killer, the Chicago Police, the BAU Chief, and each other. Tatum gets assigned to the Strangling Undertaker case in Chicago and requests that Zoe help him with the case. Tatum Gray is an FBI special agent forcibly transferred from the Los Angeles office for disciplinary reasons. She is new to the area having worked in Massachusetts on high-profile cases. Zoe Bentley is a profiler working with the FBI at Quantico.
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