Title: The Shadow Maker
Description: A twisted serial killer is on the loose . . . Obsessed with firelight and shadows, he savagely mutilates his victims. The race is on for criminal profiler, Detective Mariita Van Hassel to stop the killer before he strikes again.A brutal predator is on the loose, targeting women and savagely attacking them. His first victim is found chained, blinded and hanging on to life by a thread. His next target isn't so 'lucky'. After a forced bondage session, her ears are cut off and she's left for dead.As the attacks become more frenzied, and the mutilations ever more vicious, the pressure on the Melbourne homicide squad reaches boiling point. Along with her colleagues, Detective Marita Van Hassel must muster all her profiling knowledge and investigative ingenuity to catch the killer before he strikes again. But first she must crack the killer's obsession with firelight and shadows . . .In this dazzling debut novel, Robert Sims takes us on a thrilling journey into the dark mind of a disturbing killer.
Subjects: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery and detective