By: Mike Omer
“He had been told by several people that he drank too much coffee, that it wasn’t good for him. As far as he was concerned, those people were just jealous and cranky because they didn’t drink enough coffee.”
Mike Omer, A Killer’s Mind
Book Summary:
Three Chicago women have been found strangled, embalmed, and posed as if still alive. Doubting the findings of the local PD’s profiler, The FBI calls on forensic psychologist Zoe Bentley to investigate.
A Killer’s Mind, BY: Mike Omer
Zoe quickly gets off on the wrong foot with her new partner, Special Agent Tatum Gray. Zoe’s a hunter, intense and focused; Tatum’s a smug maverick with little respect for the rules. Together, they must descend into a serial killer’s psyche and untangle his twisted fantasies, or more women will die. But when the contents of three inconspicuous envelopes reveal a chilling connection to gruesome murders from Zoe’s childhood, suddenly the hunter becomes the hunted.
*This post contains spoilers for A Killer’s Mind
My thoughts:
This book had so much potential for me to love it; partially told by the killer’s point of view, high stakes problem solving and a main character haunted by her past.
All of this sounds fairly exciting and engaging. The only problem? The main character is absolutely insufferable.
Zoe quickly establishes that she believes she is the smartest person in the room. Everyone else is bumbling or couldn’t care less about the fact that women are being horribly murdered. It is off putting.
I wanted someone to put her in her place and say “how dare you?”.
At one point she mocks a random couch saying that it is “more expensive than it deserves”. She’s just too good for everyone and everything and it makes for an unappealing story.
Also, some of the plot points weren’t logical. I don’t think that a supervisor for the FBI would tell an agent and a consultant that what they had to say didn’t matter after one of them was almost murdered. I’m pretty sure that they would listen to every word and lead when they are hunting a serial killer, No way would they send them home and tell them that they would deal with it later.
Overall,
Not my favorite story of the year.
I have read Mike Omer’s A Deadly Influence and I found that interesting and compelling. The mixed points of view were done well and I wish it would have saved this book.
In the future, I would not give up on Omer and be open to reading him again but this one missed the mark. I will not be continuing the follow Zoe and her career.
Rating: 2/5 stars
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