I've finished "The Last Victim" the 1st book in her Dr. Charlotte Stone and Michael Garland series by Karen Robards.
Product Description
Electrifying suspense, cutting-edge psychological insight, and an
unforgettably sensuous love story — these are the trademarks of Karen
Robards’s sizzling novels. Now the
New York Times bestselling
author launches a red-hot new paranormal romantic thriller series
featuring the fascinating Dr. Charlotte Stone, a serial killer expert
whose extraordinary powers lead her from ecstasy to terror.
THE LAST VICTIM
Dr. Charlotte Stone sees what others do not.
A sought-after expert in criminal pathology, Charlie regularly sits
face-to-face with madmen. Obsessed with learning what makes human
monsters commit terrible crimes, Charlie desires little else from
life — no doubt because when she was sixteen, she herself survived a
serial killer’s bloodbath: A man butchered the family of Charlie’s best
friend, Holly, then left the girl’s body on a seaside boardwalk one week
later.
Because of the information Charlie gave police, the
Boardwalk Killer went underground. She kept to herself her eerie
postmortem visions of Holly and her mother. And even years later,
knowing her contact with ghosts might undermine her credibility as a
psychological expert, Charlie tells no one about the visits she gets
from the spirit world.
Now all-too-handsome FBI agent Tony
Bartoli is telling Charlie that a teenage girl is missing, her family
slaughtered. Bartoli suspects that after fifteen years, the Boardwalk
Killer — or a sick copycat with his M.O. — is back. Time is running short
for an innocent, kidnapped girl, and Bartoli pleads for Charlie’s help.
This is the one case Charlie shouldn’t go near. But she also knows that
she may be the one person in the world who can stop this vicious
killer. For Charlie — whose good looks disguise a world of hurt,
vulnerability, and potent psychic gifts — a frantic hunt for a madman soon
becomes a complex test of cunning, passions, and secrets. Aiding Dr.
Stone on her quest to catch a madman is a ghostly presence with bad
intentions: the fiery spirit of seductive bad boy Michael Garland who
refuses to be ignored, though in his cat and mouse game they may both
lose their hearts.
Dr. Charlotte Stone sees what others do not. And she sees the Boardwalk Killer coming for her.
Product Details
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books (August 7, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345535405
ISBN-13: 978-0345535405
My Review:
Fifteen years ago Charlie was the only witness of a serial killer known
as the Boardwalk Killer. She was seventeen when she witnessed her best
friend and her family brutally murdered. This prompted her to become a
psychologist specializing in profiling and deconstructing serial
killers.
She decides to research serial killers to try to understand them from a
psychological aspect and to figure out why they commit these brutal
killings. One of her patients is Michael Allen Garland a handsome and
charismatic who is convicted of killing seven women. Now fifteen years
later the FBI ask her to help with their investigation of killings very
similar to the Boardwalk Killer. Is the Boardwalk Killer back in
action or is it a copycat you will have to read to find out! This case
scares the hell out of Charlie because it makes her relieve her own
tragic memories and to make her acknowledge her own abilities. She sees
ghosts of victims of violent crimes since a very young age which she
shares with her older brother.
On their way out of the prison she is called to an emergency another
inmate has stabbed Garland in the heart with a deadly weapon. She is
helpless and all she can do is watch Garland bleed out. She witnesses
him die and sees his spirit raise and form over his body and she is the
only one who can see him.
She isn't too happy that Garland is sticking around her. She wants him
to go towards the white light but he wants her to find a permanent way
for him to stay around. She also starts a relationship with Tony
Bartoli the FBI agent in charge and they have more in common and he's
alive. Even though her mind says Tony is the right choice her body and
heart lies with Michael.
I loved the scenes between Charlie and Garland because it was full of
sexually charged innuendos which left her hot and bothered. It was so
funny reading that she knew he is definitely "Mr. Wrong" but she wanted
him so bad. Loved how he tried to help her in her investigation and it
was interesting learning about Michael's background.
The killings are pretty gruesome which will turn off some people!
4/5
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