Chasing Evil by Kylie Brant
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Thriller, Romance
“Backdropped against clumps of rich black Iowa topsoil was an unmistakably human hand.”
Women’s murdered bodies are discovered concealed in the graves of the recently buried throughout Iowa. DCI investigator Cam Prescott is assigned lead on the case and they have called in several specialists to consult on it. One of those specialists is Forensic Psychologist Dr. Sophia Channing, brought in to assist by providing a profile on the suspect.
“She’d spent the better part of graduate school interning with Louis Frein, renowned profiler at Quantico’s Behavioral Science Unit. In the last decade and a half, she’d interviewed the most notorious serial killers in captivity. There was more, much more to the woman than her appearance.”
She has worked with Cam before on cases but they also have recently ended a torrid 14 day affair. Sophie claims she broke it off due to their professional relationship but deep down her feelings were scaring her. Feeling wholly unlike herself and out of control had her running for the hills.
With Dr. Channing’s profile and the identity of a few of the victims, they are able to nail down the suspect’s MO. He is targeting single, wealthy women with children. He follows them until the perfect moment when he snatches them, makes them go to a bank and withdraw large sums of money by using threats against their children for control. Over the course of the next several weeks, unspeakable things are done to them, and then they are discarded in someone else’s grave to be forgotten. Until now. Once they know his workings, they find he has just struck again. Can they find him in time to save his newest victim?
A decision is made by the top brass to give the media pieces of Dr. Channing’s profile, they gotta feed the machine. What they don’t realize, is this will have devastating consequences for Sophie. When they killer hears what they are saying about him, he is furious and the one to blame is Dr. Channing. There is only one thing for him to do, he must make her pay.
“She couldn’t seem to move, and she couldn’t blame her immobility on whatever drug he’d injected her with. Fear kept her limbs leaden. Her mind frozen. But a couple of thoughts were clear enough. The man they’d been seeking so diligently had found her. And he didn’t look at all like the stranger depicted in the forensic sketch Jenna had drawn.”
“Despite the way their relationship had ended, she was certain Cam would stop at nothing to find her. She wouldn’t wait for that rescue. Couldn’t count on it. But it warmed something inside her to be certain of his efforts on her behalf.”
Cam knows his time is limited, based on their knowledge of the killer. He must find Sophie before it’s too late.
This was a great book! The perfect combination of thriller and romance. I really enjoyed how the beginning of every chapter was a little piece of the relationship between Cam and Sophie. It was just enough that it did not take away from the hunt for a serial killer. This was an easy read that had me hooked from the prologue to the last chapter, which leaves you hanging. I will definitely be getting book 2 to keep it going. I must have answers! This was my first Kylie Brant book and I was not disappointed, she has certainly been added to my author watch list.
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