The Secret Friend by Chris Mooney [ISBN 978 0 141 03087 6] is not a bad read altogether, but I did feel the plot was reminiscent of more than one serial killer novels. The dual narratives (especially that of the killer) gave a growing disturbing creepy feel to the novel, which had a strange twist of having a renegade FBI bloke-turned killer beating her to find all the clues. The Secret Friend by Chris Mooney [ISBN 978 0 141 03087 6] is not a bad read altogether, but I did feel the plot was reminiscent of more than one serial killer novels. The dual narratives (especially that of the killer) gave a growing disturbing creepy feel to the novel, which had a strange twist of having a renegade FBI bloke-turned killer beating her to find all the clues.
Darby McCormick CSI operative is assigned to the murder of Judith Chen she finds some similarities with the previous murder of drowned Emma Hale.- as she begins to investigate she is contacted by Malcom Fletcher ex FBI and now vigilante killer – who obviously is so much cleverer than she is and knows much of which she finds out only painfully. She is led to find out the killer and his whereabouts just before he kills the latest abductee.
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