Surprise at the circumstances of his brother's death prompts Jack to look into a whole series of police suicides and puts him on the trail of a cop-killer whose victims are selected all too carefully. I no longer care or believe that they can be rehabilitated, because I would never allow a known pedophile---rehabilitated or otherwise---anywhere near my child. Now believing that Sean was not the only victim of this false suicide MO, he takes his evidence to the FBI and the hunt is on for a deranged serial pedophile killer who targets children AND the police officers investigating the murders. At once perverted and vicious, the killer’s life is gradually revealed in bits and pieces that are meant to help us understand, if not necessarily sympathize, with why he does what he does.

The narrator was fine but I associate Buck Schirner with the Monkeewrench series so that was a distraction. The things that I liked about the book and the characters just didn't quite tip the scales for a 5-star rating, but certainly worth 4. The extremely repulsive villain, and again the subject of the abuse, mutilation and murder of children (which I tried mostly to skip over), left me ill.Cuando su hermano policía es hallado muerto, supuestamente suicidado, decide investigar por su cuenta al darse cuenta que no es el único policía muerto de esa forma. I also didn't like the relationship with Rachel, probably because Jack was questioning it and her almost immediately about what did it mean and were they together. In the years since writing The Poet the world has grown more welcoming to me at the same time it’s become more uncertain to me. This is less of a review than it is a sort of caveat to my rating—the caveat being that I listened to this book. But when he’s told his twin brother, a homicide cop, is dead, an apparent suicide, Jack isn’t ready to accept that and begins to look into other police officer deaths deemed to be suicides.

He is also a man who has become a father and knows my sense of wonder and joy and fear all at the same time. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Well, as some of you (who've read many of my reviews) may know I'm really not into emotional stories.

As I watched my daughter grow it began to bother me that I had created a fictional world where a killer like Robert Backus could walk free. The FBI began a manhunt for a serial killer who had claimed as many as seven homicide detectives as his victory.

This is a tense, well-written book that is especially illuminating about the methods that the FBI uses for profiling and chasing serial killers. Una de las cosas que más me gustan de haber llegado tarde a esta serie es ir viendo la aplicación de las nuevas tecnologías al método policial. What follows is one heck of a story masterfully told at a great pace with a love interest and more than one red herring (no spoilers from me).

As a reporter, Jack specializes in writing about homicide cases and he decides to do an article on his brother's death. Finally I realized the end was not the end, but only a fake end, and then the "real story" was about to begin. He says it's for his brother, but really it's for the story and glory of what he is getting involved with.

He goes and pesters people and starts notes, but when he is working with Rachel and others, they are the ones who are putting things together. Take the protagonist, Jack McEvoy, for example: He is a Denver journalist who, after the very controversial and publicized suicide of his older brother (the lead homicide detective of an investigation into the brutal murder of a young schoolteacher), stumbles upon evidence that the police originally missed that confirms that his brother’s suicide was actually a murder. There were moments at which I had to make a concerted effort to suspend disbelief, but in the end, it was an enjoyable read, just not a recommended listen.