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Claudine Carter, Britain’s leading psychological profiler, is summoned by Europol to track a serial killer whose dismembered victims appear in 15 European capitals. Joined by a forensic pathologist and a computer wizard, Carter uses unseen clues to trace the madman’s trail. As her identity is revealed, the chase flips and the line between hunter and hunted blurs, leaving the continent’s glamourous cities on edge.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Thriller/Psychological Thriller
Authors: Brian Freemantle
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