Kate Myers is tracking a serial killer - well, she thinks he's a serial killer. Kate is a psychiatrist who has been tracking this guy since her twin sister was killed when she was 17 years old... when it should have been her... when she knew she should have walked their dog instead of Kassie that cold afternoon in Ohio; and their dog came home dragging its lead without her sister.
Kate Myers blames herself completely for her sister's death - simply because Kate could have fought off the killer. Kate could have done something different to survive...
It's been years and Kate Myers is in Northern California and she's still tracking the same killer. He's killed another teenager and it's dredged up memories of Kassie's murder for Kate again. This time it's in a small town where everyone know each other and the police station is smaller than it should be.
From the moment Kate walks through the doors, she's judged by all the cops - particularly Ben Slater, who doesn't like her at all. She up tight, pushy and believes there is something out there - somebody out there - when he thinks there's no connection at all... well, that's until she gets him to read up on her files, what she had pulled together and they go and look at the files from the past where markings have been missed on the bodies and not noted down in the files but noticed in the photos.
However, the MO of the killer shows that he takes years to plan and plot his kills - that he picks his prey carefully so he doesn't stuff up. This is until Kate and the killer cross paths by accident at a petrol station and he recognises her as Kassie, and he panics! Did he kill her? Did she survive? If she did, he had to set the record straight and make sure he caught her again and ...and ...
The sheriff goes missing - on a holiday, he said - for a few weeks suddenly from the station. But he doesn't give a return date and leaves his office a total pig sty. Kate notices and goes snooping around... and she starts putting things together about the sheriff - who was around at the times of the first murders years ago. She finds cryptic notes around his office and shoves them into her handbag to look at later...
In between all this, Ben and Kate work long hours in the office and at her place over the case. They talk well into the nights and over coffee, takeaway food and in bed in each other's arms; not expecting to fall for each other this way... harboring secrets of their own - painful, terrible secrets from their own lives - which could either make their relationship stronger or break it, shattering what they've discovered between them and within the manila file folders before the next victim is taken ... but who will that next person be?
The Sheriff?
Kate?
Another high school student?
Or...
All three...?
Kate Myers blames herself completely for her sister's death - simply because Kate could have fought off the killer. Kate could have done something different to survive...
It's been years and Kate Myers is in Northern California and she's still tracking the same killer. He's killed another teenager and it's dredged up memories of Kassie's murder for Kate again. This time it's in a small town where everyone know each other and the police station is smaller than it should be.
From the moment Kate walks through the doors, she's judged by all the cops - particularly Ben Slater, who doesn't like her at all. She up tight, pushy and believes there is something out there - somebody out there - when he thinks there's no connection at all... well, that's until she gets him to read up on her files, what she had pulled together and they go and look at the files from the past where markings have been missed on the bodies and not noted down in the files but noticed in the photos.
However, the MO of the killer shows that he takes years to plan and plot his kills - that he picks his prey carefully so he doesn't stuff up. This is until Kate and the killer cross paths by accident at a petrol station and he recognises her as Kassie, and he panics! Did he kill her? Did she survive? If she did, he had to set the record straight and make sure he caught her again and ...and ...
The sheriff goes missing - on a holiday, he said - for a few weeks suddenly from the station. But he doesn't give a return date and leaves his office a total pig sty. Kate notices and goes snooping around... and she starts putting things together about the sheriff - who was around at the times of the first murders years ago. She finds cryptic notes around his office and shoves them into her handbag to look at later...
In between all this, Ben and Kate work long hours in the office and at her place over the case. They talk well into the nights and over coffee, takeaway food and in bed in each other's arms; not expecting to fall for each other this way... harboring secrets of their own - painful, terrible secrets from their own lives - which could either make their relationship stronger or break it, shattering what they've discovered between them and within the manila file folders before the next victim is taken ... but who will that next person be?
The Sheriff?
Kate?
Another high school student?
Or...
All three...?
Thanks for the great review, Mozette!
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