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reneeb123's review against another edition
5.0
Loved it! Classic true crime thriller. I guessed who the killer was but that didn't ruin or take away from the story for me because I still want to find out all the little details.
cab65's review against another edition
4.0
This is the 1st in the Zoe Bentley Mystery series. I've been struggling to get back into reading novels. Very little has been able to hold my attention. This one grabbed my attention not to the point where I couldn't put it down but to where I kept coming back daily to read another chunk. That's a win.
My thoughts: the main character Zoe is a forensic psychologist and to say she's quirky is putting it mildly. Early chapters left me a little confused about her quirkiness. I don't want to add spoilers but I kind if felt that the author may have changed his mind re: that background development and I'm kind of happy about that.
In this story she's chasing a serial killer and I never had a clue who it was. I also liked the way her partnership developed with the FBI agent Tatum Gray. The ending was also satisfying and sets the reader up for the next book. I'll definitely be reading that one too.
My thoughts: the main character Zoe is a forensic psychologist and to say she's quirky is putting it mildly. Early chapters left me a little confused about her quirkiness. I don't want to add spoilers but I kind if felt that the author may have changed his mind re: that background development and I'm kind of happy about that.
In this story she's chasing a serial killer and I never had a clue who it was. I also liked the way her partnership developed with the FBI agent Tatum Gray. The ending was also satisfying and sets the reader up for the next book. I'll definitely be reading that one too.
mezarale's review against another edition
4.0
Quite a wonderful piece of metal junk food to escape my busiest time of the year. I love the snark.
samthavb's review against another edition
5.0
Great travel read
Finished this in a round trip flight - smart, easy to read, hard to put down. Loved the female lead and complex character development
Finished this in a round trip flight - smart, easy to read, hard to put down. Loved the female lead and complex character development
chaptersofjenni's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
belinda_frisch's review against another edition
4.0
I picked up Mike Omer’s A Killer’s Mind as an Amazon Prime First Read. What starts off as a standard serial killer tale, escalates to a page-turning thriller with an ending that doesn’t disappoint.
Tatum Gray is an instantaneously lovable character. Someone who takes care of his wild and crazy relative (think Bad Grandpa) and who assumes a protector role over Zoe, with whom he starts out having friction.
I get it. Psychologist Zoe Bentley took me a while to warm up to, too. Her backstory unfolds in a then-and-now plot featuring an over-zealous teen-wanna-be-sleuth with the usual stakes and tropes. Girls are being murdered in her childhood hometown, and Zoe is a natural born investigator, taking over when the police fail to see past the outcast who is the obvious suspect because he plays D&D. Zoe is sure he’s innocent, that she knows who the real killer is, but no one believes her, because she’s “just a kid.”
I was afraid I knew where this was headed, and it all felt way too convenient, until it didn’t.
The turning point in the book validates all the time spent on Zoe’s obsession and presumably lines up a nemesis for the next installment. This is a series novel, which does what a lot of first-in-series books fail to: it comes to both a satisfying conclusion, and ends with a bit of a cliffhanger.
I have a long TBR, but I might check back in on this series down the road and see what Zoe gets up to. I’m curious what her nemesis has planned after a particularly dark chapter with teen Zoe and her young sister, locked in her childhood bedroom. It took a minute for the author to get there, but from the mid-point on, it was all stakes, stakes, stakes…
Recommended for fans of the Todd Ritter (who you might know as Riley Sager) Kat Campbell series. Sometimes dark, sometimes funny, other times eye-rollingly corny and cliché, I’m torn between giving this one a three-and-a-half or four-star rating. The back half really did redeem a slow start.
Tatum Gray is an instantaneously lovable character. Someone who takes care of his wild and crazy relative (think Bad Grandpa) and who assumes a protector role over Zoe, with whom he starts out having friction.
I get it. Psychologist Zoe Bentley took me a while to warm up to, too. Her backstory unfolds in a then-and-now plot featuring an over-zealous teen-wanna-be-sleuth with the usual stakes and tropes. Girls are being murdered in her childhood hometown, and Zoe is a natural born investigator, taking over when the police fail to see past the outcast who is the obvious suspect because he plays D&D. Zoe is sure he’s innocent, that she knows who the real killer is, but no one believes her, because she’s “just a kid.”
I was afraid I knew where this was headed, and it all felt way too convenient, until it didn’t.
The turning point in the book validates all the time spent on Zoe’s obsession and presumably lines up a nemesis for the next installment. This is a series novel, which does what a lot of first-in-series books fail to: it comes to both a satisfying conclusion, and ends with a bit of a cliffhanger.
I have a long TBR, but I might check back in on this series down the road and see what Zoe gets up to. I’m curious what her nemesis has planned after a particularly dark chapter with teen Zoe and her young sister, locked in her childhood bedroom. It took a minute for the author to get there, but from the mid-point on, it was all stakes, stakes, stakes…
Recommended for fans of the Todd Ritter (who you might know as Riley Sager) Kat Campbell series. Sometimes dark, sometimes funny, other times eye-rollingly corny and cliché, I’m torn between giving this one a three-and-a-half or four-star rating. The back half really did redeem a slow start.