(1997)Across the country, dozens of teenage girls have vanished. Authorities are convinced they're runaways with just the bad luck of the draw to connect them. It's the job of criminal profilers Dr. Tony Hill and Carol Jordan to look for a pattern. They've spent years exploring the psyches of madmen. But sane men kill, too. And when they hide in plain sight, they can be difficult to find...Jacko Vance is handsome and talented, rich and famous--a notorious charmer with the power to seduce...and the will to destroy. No one can believe what he's capable of. No one can imagine what he's already done. And no one can fathom what he's about to do next. Until one of Hill's students is murdered--the first move in a sick and violent game for three players. Now, of all the killers Hill and Jordan have hunted, none has been so ruthless, so terrifyingly clever, and so brilliantly elusive as the killer who's hunting them.We know Vance is the killer, the hook is can Tony & Carol obtain enough evidence to prove it when everybody in the country considers Vance a hero. When he kills one of Tony's team who pursues her theory that Vance is guilty, then Tony makes it personal to catch the guy. He does but only after the latest victim dies in Vance's underground bomb shelter. Right up to the end, Vance is scheming on how to get away with everything. Not a tidy ending, but life isn't tidy.

Tony Hill Book 2

Doing a slow re-read of the series alternating with the newer ones, I enjoyed this more than I expected. My memory was of not liking this at all however many years ago, and I'm not entirely sure why. The fate of Shaz Bowman disturbed me at the time (and not in the way it was supposed to) but being ready for it this time helped. The ending is a bit too open, particularly as the suggested payoff takes until four books later for it to occur. I remember dreading that suggested immediate follow-up so I suppose this time around I knew it wasn't going to happen and that gave me more of a sense of closure, however temporary. ( )

thoroughly enjoyable. Well narrated and a developing storyline which leads to a climax. Will read more! ( )

Shaz Bowman ist Mitglied eines Elite-Polizeiteams und soll das Verschwinden von 30 Mädchen aufklären. 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 ...