Caged
A Novel
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- 5,49 €
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- 5,49 €
Publisher Description
FBI profiler Sayer Altair hunts a brilliant serial killer with a dangerous obsession in Caged, a gripping thriller from debut author Ellison Cooper.
In a residential Washington, D.C. neighborhood, a young woman's body is found in the basement of an abandoned house--starved to death in a cage, along with the video footage of a dark and deadly ritual. The victim is identified as the daughter of a prominent D.C. politician, and it falls to the FBI to track down the unconscionable psychopath who murdered her.
FBI special agent Sayer Altair would rather conduct research on criminality than catch actual criminals. But when she's offered a promotion hinging on her next assignment, she reluctantly accepts the "Cage Killer" case. Taunted by a photo of another victim at the mercy of this vicious killer, Sayer and her team are driven to put an end to these grisly homicides.
During the investigation, clues emerge connecting the murders to Sayer's past. Now, the stakes are personal, and the deeper Sayer is drawn into the deadly web, the more she believes she is the only one who can uncover the killer's identity.
Told with devastating detail, shocking twists and unrelenting suspense, Cooper proves her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Cooper leaves no serial killer thriller clich behind in her debut, starting with a lead burdened with a tragic backstory. FBI special agent Sayer Altair's parents died in a car crash, and her fianc , a fellow agent, was killed on duty under mysterious circumstances. Sayer's research into the brain patterns of murderers is put on hold when the emaciated corpse of Gwendolyn Van Hurst, an ambitious senator's teenage daughter who went missing a year earlier, is found in a cage in the basement of a Washington, D.C., house. The victim's captor booby-trapped the building, and more than one investigator is either wounded or killed. The search for the girl's killer gains urgency after Sayer learns another caged captive may still be alive. Readers should be prepared for melodramatic writing ("As Sayer drifted off to sleep, she vowed to herself that she would find that girl if it was the last thing she did") and implausible law enforcement decisions (Sayer is content to wait a day for access to vital government records stored in an office closed for the weekend). Hopefully, Cooper will do better next time.
