When bodies begin to appear along the Constitution Trail in the Bloomington Normal twin cities, detective Sasha Frank is assigned to investigate. The killer has a particular method of staging the bodies. He/she poses them in a park with their eyelids glued open and he kills every ten days. The book is more a howdunnit that a whodunnit. The police cannot find decent clues to the killer's identity until the fifth death occurs. What the readers sees in this book are the meticulous methods used in investigating a homicide.
It was interesting to see the strange way that the serial killer set up the murders to avoid getting caught. The reader gets a glimpse into the mind of a serial killer as the book is written from the point of view of both the police and the killer. The book does not follow the traditional serial killer formula. Most of these type of books begin with establishing the main character and then show a sequence of unsolved crimes. Normally there is an unrelated subplot but there wasn't one here. However, the usual bureaucracy in a police department is shown in the novel.
If you like serial killer novels, this one is for you. 4 out of 5 stars.
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