Review: Enjoyable suspense thriller!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2013
Australian FBI profiler, Sophie Anderson, working in the US for the past three years was woken by a phone call from her Mum at 3am. Never expecting good news with a call at that hour, and learning her Dad was alright as well, Sophie was shocked to learn the pedophile who had murdered her brother when he was eleven and she was eight, thirty years ago, appeared to have re-surfaced in rural Victoria.She immediately packed, booked her flight to Australia and went into work to speak to her boss, plus prepare her cases to be passed on to others. Leaving a message for her boyfriend, Darren, who was also a policeman, she hoped he'd call her back before she left the country that evening. On arrival in Melbourne, the jet-lag was fierce, but travelling to her family home with her parents was a comfort. She immediately contacted a friend in the Victorian Police force, as well as their profiler, and integrated herself, unofficially, into the investigation.As she and Lily began to profile all past and present victims, some anomalies soon appeared. The profile on the murderer gave them a few more answers, but the brief and vivid images which hit Sophie left her gasping. With the arrival of Darren into Australia to support her and her parents, she realized she must do more. Darren was the only one who knew of her "gift", but her mother had guessed it as well.As events picked up the pace, the clock began ticking when another young boy vanished. Sophie needed to find the killer before the same fate befell this child as had befallen her brother. The emotion was high, the pressure great; would they succeed where they had failed thirty years ago?Another thoroughly enjoyable suspense thriller from the talented Aussie author, PD Martin. I love her work, and highly recommend her books to all.