Vanished
Elizabeth Heiter
Mira, Dec 30 2014, $7.99
ISBN 9780778317388
Almost two decades have passed since someone kidnapped Evelyn
Baine’s twelve years old BFF Cassie Byers.
The case to include two other similar abductions from apparently the
same culprit dubbed the Nursery Rhyme Killer
remains unsolved; but also motivated Evelyn into becoming a profiler (see
Hunted).
In the present at the Aquia, Virginia FBI Behavior Analysis Unit
where Evelyn works, Cassie’s mom Julie calls her not with the news they found
her daughter’s corpse, but that the Nursery
Rhyme Killer has returned to Rose Bay, South Carolina snatching Brittany
Douglas. Evelyn pleads with her boss to
let her join the Child Abduction Rapid Deployment team already at the scene as
she insists she would be the best profiler for this case. While he fears a conflict of interest he
sends her knowing Evelyn will go home anyway.
Local police officer Jack Bullock objects to Evelyn’s presence as her
name is on the rhyme left behind during the Cassie kidnapping, but Chief Tomas
accepts her as a motivated asset. As she
begins her profile, Evelyn knows this may be her last case if solved her life
mission is over and if not she is dead.
The second Profiler police procedural is a tense psychological
mystery in which the heroine’s connection to one of the cold case kidnappings
adds a personal spin that thaws her previous tundra personality. The hunt for the missing child running out of
time makes for a compelling read; even as nothing new is added to the profiling
of the Criminal Minds serial killer theme.
Harriet Klausner
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