Publisher Description
With their electrifying debut, Kill Switch, Neal Baer, executive producer of Under the Dome, and Jonathan Greene delivered "suspense on the order of The Silence of the Lambs" (Denver Post). Now the former executive producers of NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit are back with a stunning new thriller featuring forensic psychiatrist Claire Waters—and a razor-sharp madman who’s ready to Kill Again…
Haunted by a brutal childhood, Dr. Claire Waters finds solace in helping other survivors of abuse. Her favorite patient, Rosa Sanchez, is finally getting her life together after being victimized for years. So it’s a shock when Rosa is handcuffed and led away by a man Claire assumes is law enforcement. But as she soon realizes, Rosa has been abducted.
Stunned, Claire turns to her friend Nick Lawler, a homicide detective in the NYPD. Relegated to desk work because of his failing eyesight, Nick will have to risk his career to find Rosa—and track down a deranged criminal who reduces his victims to nothing but bones. A brilliant gamesman obsessed with order and perfection, scrawling words and phrases across the walls of his basement apartment, the killer has been preparing for this moment all of his life—when every letter is in place, every piece is in play—and the object of his obsession, Dr. Claire Waters, is in the game. Win, lose, or die...
Kill Again is a harrowing psychological thrill-ride filled with terrifying twists and turns, captivating characters, and mindbending puzzles that will keep you guessing until the final, shocking climax.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Near the start of TV producers Baer and Greene's clich -filled sequel to 2011's Kill Switch, New York City forensic psychologist Claire Waters witnesses a patient of hers, Rosa Sanchez, taken away in handcuffs and, after contacting various authorities, concludes that something terrible has happened to the young woman. Claire turns to the one police officer she can trust, Nick Lawler, sidelined from active duty because of a progressive loss of vision. Nick brings their suspicions to his boss, Det. Insp. Brian Wilkes, who forbids them to be involved further. The pair defy Wilkes, are grudgingly forgiven, and the cycle repeats. Claire and Nick, who are supposed to be smart, make bad choices over and over, and they act as if they were the leads in a romantic comedy. The authors tend to use too much detail (Rosa plops down on Claire's "soft, comfortable, dark green, velour sofa"), and almost every female character is attractive (Claire is "beautiful"; others are "hot" or "stunning"). All this might have worked better on the screen.
