While Tony Hill has taken an academic position in Scotland, DCI Carol Jordan is pursuing her career in the police force. When she applies for the job of European Liaison Office with NCIS, she finds herself being interviewed for an undercover operation, which leads her to seek some help from Tony. They agree to meet for the first time in two years. After her call Tony stood motionless. He’d never really believed Carol was consigned to his past.
Carol’s undercover job takes her to Germany where she insinuates herself into the confidence of one Tadeusz Radecki, who is involved in drugs and illegal immigrants. Her contact is Petra Becker of the German CID. Petra is unofficially exchanging information with Marijke, an officer with the Dutch Police. Both officers are convinced that a serial killer is operating in both their countries, targeting psychologists. What they need is a profiler. When Tony agrees to come to Germany, Carol is initially surprised, but Tony has his own reasons.
As with the previous books in this series, we are privy to the mind of the serial killer, but in this book, not his identity. The background from which his psychosis stems, stretches back to Nazi Germany, and the descriptions of his torment are harrowing and disturbing.
Val maintains the tempo on the two separate cases right through the book to a double gripping climax.
Veri Sylvester, does an excellent job with so many different accents. Interestingly
the characters that I enjoyed the most were Petra and Marijke. Veri really brought
them alive for me, both her German and Dutch accents were superb. ------ Lizzie
Hayes
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Lizzie Hayes