The Octopus Hook Murders

Psychotherapist Gus Bolderjack was an exceptional profiler who couldn’t stay out of the action. He’d bait serial killers into stalking him, and then snare them by hook or by crook. Labeled hero by some and psycho shrink by others, one thing was clear: his methods worked. After losing a feud with U. S. Attorney Carrie Sullivan-Bledsoe over a murderer’s plea bargain he leaves the field to join his lover in her high-end Sun Valley resort clinic, tending to the emotional needs of the rich and richer. That works for a while until Sullivan-Bledsoe, now a state attorney general, loses her son to a kidnapper at nearly the same time a powerful tabloid publisher’s niece is also kidnapped.
Bolderjack gets sucked into the fray, where he's late to discover that the kids are bait and he’s the target of two gruesome serial killers sharing goals and a thirst for revenge. If that’s not bad enough, he finds himself in a universe ruled by political ambition and intriguing, double-dealing characters, including those he’s trying to help. Kidnapping, hostage taking, fraud, cops—good and bad —,criminal psychology and tabloid journalism fuel this adrenalin-pumping story from beginning to end.