An Unsub Novel
Dutton
February 2018
On Sale: January 30, 2018
Featuring: Caitlin Hendrix
368 pages ISBN: 1101985550 EAN: 9781101985557 Kindle: B0725MVZ34 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In this exhilarating thriller inspired by real-life serial killer Ted Bundy, FBI profiler Caitlin Hendrix faces off against a charming, merciless serial killer.
In southern Texas, on Saturday nights, women are disappearing. One vanishes from a movie theater. Another is ripped from her car at a stoplight. Another vanishes from her home while checking on her baby. Rookie FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix, newly assigned to the FBIβs elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, fears that a serial killer is roaming the dark roads outside Austin.
Caitlin and the FBIβs serial crime unit discover the first victimβs body in the woods. Sheβs laid out in a bloodstained, white baby-doll nightgown. A second victim in a white nightie lies deeper in the forestβs darkness. Both bodies are surrounded by Polaroid photos, stuck in the earth like headstones. Each photo pictures a woman in a white negligee, wrists slashed, suicide-styleβposed like Snow White awaiting her princeβs kiss.
To track the UNSUB, Caitlin must get inside his mind. How is he selecting these women? Working with a legendary FBI profiler, Caitlin searches for a homologyβthat elusive point where character and action come together. She profiles a confident, meticulous killer who convinces his victims to lower their guard until he can overpower and take them in plain sight. He then reduces them to objects in a twisted fantasyβdolls for him to possess, control, and ultimately destroy. Caitlinβs profile leads the FBI to focus on one man: a charismatic, successful professional who easily gains peopleβs trust. But with only circumstantial evidence linking him to the murders, the police allow him to escape. As Saturday night approaches, Caitlin and the FBI enter a desperate game of cat and mouse, racing to capture the cunning predator before he claims more victims.
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