Dark, Divided Self, A
By A. J. Cross
3.5/5
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"Plenty of unexpected twists sure to set pulses racing, leading to a shock ending guaranteed to blindside even the most experienced thriller reader" - Booklist Starred Review
When the badly decomposed remains of a young woman are discovered in an isolated wooded area just outside Birmingham, the victim is quickly identified as Amy Peters, a Manchester University student who disappeared three years earlier. She is one of five young women who vanished from the streets of Manchester within a two-year period. Called in to assist the police investigation, criminologist Will Traynor believes they are looking for an intelligent, socially confident individual, someone adept at covering his tracks. But why would the killer transport the victim on an eighty-mile journey from Manchester to Birmingham? If he can find the answer to that question, Traynor believes he has the key to cracking the case. But at every stage of the investigation, the killer seems to be one step ahead of him. If he's going to outsmart him, Will realizes he's going to have to play this twisted individual at his own deadly game.
A. J. Cross
A.J. Cross is a forensic psychologist with over twenty years' experience in the field. She lives in Birmingham with her jazz-musician husband. As well as the Will Traynor series, she is the author of five Kate Hanson Cold Case mysteries.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley.This was a disappointing read: too much police procedure and discussions around criminal profiling, and too little actual plot. I guessed the identity of the killer quite early on and never wavered in my conviction. There was a lot of concern about costs and the police budget, yet the investigation employed both Will as a profiler and Julian as a criminal psychologist, although they both seemed to do routine police work at various points - Julian was even asked to check traffic camera/CCTV footage early on. There were other inconsistencies and loose ends left dangling which I can't write about without spoilers, so I'll leave them, but I think I'll give up on this series.