Shaz Bowman ist Mitglied eines Elite-Polizeiteams, das das Verschwinden von 30 Mädchen aufklären soll. Als sie einen berühmten TV-Star verdächtigt, wird sie ausgelacht - und wenig später ermordet. Für den Polizeipsychologen Tony Hill beginnt ein persönlicher Rachefeldzug, bei dem nicht klar ist, wer Jäger ist und wer Gejagter . . .
Taut, suspenseful and ferociously readable thriller featuring psychological profiler Dr. Tony Hill.
"A terrific chiller from Manchester`s answer to Thomas Harris" (Guardian).
Nobody moves around inside the messy heads of serial killers like Dr. Tony Hill. Now heading up the recently founded National Profiling Task Force, he sets his team an exercise: they are given the details of thirty missing teenagers and asked to use their new techniques to discover whether there is a sinister link between any of the cases. Only one officer, Shaz Bowman, comes up with a concrete theory, but it is ridiculed by the rest of the group until someone murders and mutilates one of their number. Could Bowman`s outrageous suspicion possibly be true? For Tony Hill, the murder of a member of his team becomes a matter for personal revenge. Aided by his previous colleague, Carol Jordan, he embarks upon a campaign of psychological terrorism - a game of cat and mouse where the roles of hunter and hunted are all too easily reversed.
Taut, suspenseful and ferociously readable thriller featuring psychological profiler Dr. Tony Hill.
"A terrific chiller from Manchester`s answer to Thomas Harris" (Guardian).
Nobody moves around inside the messy heads of serial killers like Dr. Tony Hill. Now heading up the recently founded National Profiling Task Force, he sets his team an exercise: they are given the details of thirty missing teenagers and asked to use their new techniques to discover whether there is a sinister link between any of the cases. Only one officer, Shaz Bowman, comes up with a concrete theory, but it is ridiculed by the rest of the group until someone murders and mutilates one of their number. Could Bowman`s outrageous suspicion possibly be true? For Tony Hill, the murder of a member of his team becomes a matter for personal revenge. Aided by his previous colleague, Carol Jordan, he embarks upon a campaign of psychological terrorism - a game of cat and mouse where the roles of hunter and hunted are all too easily reversed.
Die gebürtige Schottin und Gold Dagger-Preisträgerin Val Mc Dermid arbeitete nach ihrem Universitätsabschluss ab 1975 als Journalistin (u.a. für die Tageszeitung "people" in Manchester). 1991 zog sie sich aus dem Journalistengeschäft zurück und betätigt sich seither hauptberuflich als Autorin. Sie war knapp 10 Jahre in der britischen Gewerkschaft aktiv, was sich in ihrem Krimi "Der Aufsteiger" widerspiegelt. Neben den erfolgreichen Krimis mit der lesbischen Heldin Lindsay Gordon erscheint inzwischen auch die zweite Erfolgsserie der Autorin mit Detektivin Kate Brannigan aus Manchester. Die Autorin veröffentlichte auch Hörspiele und zwei Theaterstücke.
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