FBI Profiler Dr. Kate Hayden has been sent to San Antonio to investigate a murder. The victim was shot while sitting in her car which had broken down along the interstate. A cellphone was left on the passenger seat with a text for Kate. Everything points to this being the work of The Samaritan, a serial killer who has killed five women. The problem is Kate already caught The Samaritan who is awaiting trial. Is it a copycat? Did she arrest the wrong person?
Kate is teamed with San Antonio Homicide Detective Theo Mazur. As they compare this scene to the previous murders, another woman is found murdered. This time the scene resembles murders from another old case that Kate solved a few years ago. Someone is recreating murders from Kate's old cases. It's up to her and Mazur to find the killer.
This is the first book in Mary Burton's Criminal Profiler series. It is billed as romantic suspense, but the book leans hard toward the suspense side which worked for me. This book was a little different because Kate and Mazur figure out who is behind the murders at the mid-point of the book. But surprisingly that really didn't detract from the story. My rating: 4 Stars.
Kate is teamed with San Antonio Homicide Detective Theo Mazur. As they compare this scene to the previous murders, another woman is found murdered. This time the scene resembles murders from another old case that Kate solved a few years ago. Someone is recreating murders from Kate's old cases. It's up to her and Mazur to find the killer.
This is the first book in Mary Burton's Criminal Profiler series. It is billed as romantic suspense, but the book leans hard toward the suspense side which worked for me. This book was a little different because Kate and Mazur figure out who is behind the murders at the mid-point of the book. But surprisingly that really didn't detract from the story. My rating: 4 Stars.
HER LAST MOVE is a stand alone which features FBI Agent Kate Hayden and Homicide Detective Theo Mazur.
Kate is well known for taking down the human monsters. She is driven to find justice for their victims. Theo is a dedicated cop, relatively new to San Antonio, but a 10-year veteran in Chicago.
Attached to the murder victim is a not addressed to Kate. Calling the FBI, he finds that she has already caught the guy responsible for several gruesome murders, but Theo's case echoes those. Kate and Theo determine they should be looking for a copycat...but why is the gun used in this case the same gun used in her previous cases?
Kate is in constant touch with her partner, who is on the trail of a man who abducted women, locked them in wooden boxes, and generally kept them until they died. However, with his last victim, Kate interrupted and saved the girl. He has sworn vengeance and is following Kate's trail to Texas.
What's worse than having a monster coming after you? It's worse when you have 2 of them ...and they decide to team up.
It's fast-paced with a lot of action starting at the very beginning and not letting up until the last page. There are a few twists and turns along the way with a very surprising ending. The characters are solidly defined. Theo is a determined cop, but nothing is more important than his family. Divorced, he follows his ex-wife around the country so as to be close to his teenage daughter. Kate has a history in Texas .... when she was a teenager, her ex-boyfriend shot and killed her father and wounded her.
Many thanks to the author / Montlake Romance / Netgalley for the advanced digital copy of this Romantic Suspense. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.
Kate is well known for taking down the human monsters. She is driven to find justice for their victims. Theo is a dedicated cop, relatively new to San Antonio, but a 10-year veteran in Chicago.
Attached to the murder victim is a not addressed to Kate. Calling the FBI, he finds that she has already caught the guy responsible for several gruesome murders, but Theo's case echoes those. Kate and Theo determine they should be looking for a copycat...but why is the gun used in this case the same gun used in her previous cases?
Kate is in constant touch with her partner, who is on the trail of a man who abducted women, locked them in wooden boxes, and generally kept them until they died. However, with his last victim, Kate interrupted and saved the girl. He has sworn vengeance and is following Kate's trail to Texas.
What's worse than having a monster coming after you? It's worse when you have 2 of them ...and they decide to team up.
It's fast-paced with a lot of action starting at the very beginning and not letting up until the last page. There are a few twists and turns along the way with a very surprising ending. The characters are solidly defined. Theo is a determined cop, but nothing is more important than his family. Divorced, he follows his ex-wife around the country so as to be close to his teenage daughter. Kate has a history in Texas .... when she was a teenager, her ex-boyfriend shot and killed her father and wounded her.
Many thanks to the author / Montlake Romance / Netgalley for the advanced digital copy of this Romantic Suspense. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.
Too slow, too predictable, just another run of the mill plot that isn't anything new, everything in this book has been done before so you are just rereading the same plot others have already done.
