Series: EL Pender #1
Author: Jonathan Nasaw
For ten years, the charmingly disheveled veteran FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender has been investigating the apparently random disappearances of a dozen women across the country. The only detail the cases have in common is the strawberry blond color of the victims' hair, and the presence of a mystery man with whom they were last seen.
Then, in Monterey, California, a routine traffic stop erupts into a scene of horrific violence. The local police are stunned by a disemboweled strawberry blond victim and an ingenious killer with multiple alternating personalities. Pender is convinced he has found his man, but before he can prove it, the suspect stages a cunning jailbreak and abducts his court-appointed psychiatrist, Irene Cogan.
In a house on a secluded ridge in Oregon, Irene must navigate through the minefield of her captor's various egos -- male and female, brilliant and naive, murderous and passive -- all of whom are dominated by Max, a seductive killer who views her as both his prisoner and his salvation. Irene knows that to survive she must play along with Max's game of sexual perversion. Only then will she be able to strip back the layers to discover a chilling story of a shattered young boy -- and all the girls he adored.-Goodreads
Review: There is a lot happening in this book. We have a killer with DID (dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder), a psychiatrist who is flirting with said killer almost immediately upon meeting him, and a quirky FBI agent who is not in good standing with the bureau hunting the killer. This book started off pretty strong and ended up completely unbelievable but I still overall enjoyed it.
Grade: 3/5
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