I saw you trying to save the poor young woman you found in the park.
The woman I tried to kill.
I've been waiting for you to find her family. To find someone who cares about her.
But you can't can you?
You've never had a case like this.
I know everything about you. You know nothing about me.
Even though I'm the man you're looking for.
And you will never catch me...
I'd like to thank Alainna at Orion Books for inviting me to be a part of this blog tour and for my copy of To Catch a Killer which I received to review via NetGalley.
As the title suggests To Catch a Killer sees DS Alice Parr in the wrong place at the right time as a call comes through as she's on her way to work, a young woman has been brutally attacked near to where she currently is. The first officer on scene Alice quickly discovers the victim barely alive, being worked on by an off-duty paramedic, but the woman clings firmly onto Alice's hand with her eyes focused solely on her and is able to whisper one word before she is taken to hospital.
Normally when Alice is assigned a case her victims are already dead so the fact that she stumbles across the woman still alive makes this feel all the more personal and she wants to do everything in her power to bring the attacker to justice. But with no name to the woman, the first job on their hands is to identify who she is so that they can inform her family especially as there have been no missing person reports for anyone matching her description.
What follows is a cat-and-mouse investigation where the attacker seems to be one step ahead of the police at every stage. When the team finally make a discovery of the woman's identity, evidence at the woman's flat would seem to suggest that this was not quite the random attack as first thought. But every time a new lead is discovered, the evidence is either missing or has been destroyed before Alice and her team can get there. Will they ever catch a break and get their man?
As well as the complex investigation aspect of the storyline which eventually leads them overseas, we also get to see an emotional side to the story through Alice's own personal experience that has left her physically and emotionally scarred. At work she is a strong dependable member of the team but then we get to see the private side to her, and you could really sense her pain and she seemed so vulnerable. I'm really hoping that this is not the last we've seen of Alice especially with the way things were left...
Emma Kavanagh clearly has a criminal devious mind, although I think that has more to do with her former work as a police psychologist, as she really gets into the mindset of the criminal to show what makes them tick. The writing feels so authentic and as a reader you're drawn into what turns out to be a highly addictive, edge of your seat read that you will simply not want to put down.
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