Name: Hide and Seek
ISBN: 9780956035363

Neel Burton

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. – Miguel de Unamuno. How and why do we deceive ourselves? How does this impact on us and those around us? And what, if anything, can we do about it? This book is a stand-alone sequel and companion piece to 'The Art of Failure', which explores what it means to be successful, and how, if at all, true success can be achieved.

The Psychology of Self-Deception

Hide and Seek

Mary Burton

She's hunting. He's watching. Special Agent Macy Crow is a survivor. After a vicious hit-and-run nearly kills her, she gets right back to work, and now she's gunning for a spot on the FBI's elite profiling team. As an audition, she offers to investigate the recently discovered bones of Tobi Turner, a high school girl who disappeared fifteen years ago. While investigating with local sheriff Mike Nevada, a former colleague and onetime lover, Macy discovers a link between Tobi's case and several others that occurred around the same time as her disappearance. As Macy interviews victims and examines old cases, she uncovers a sinister picture of a stalker who graduated to sexual assault--and then murder. Macy and Nevada race to put this monster behind bars before he can come out of hiding. But the murderer's had years to hone his skills, and soon Macy herself becomes a target. She's no stranger to pain and terror, but will Macy's first profiling case be her last?

Lore Reads

“Never figured justice would have a price tag, but I guess everything does.”-Mary Burton

-genre: romantic suspense, stronger emphasis on the suspense/thriller plot than on romance

-can it be read as a stand-alone? absolutely

Special agent Macy Crow is tired of working a desk job and is keen to get back to work on the field. She wants to join one of the best FBI profiling teams and as part of the interview is given a case file of a teenage girl, who went missing around fifteen years earlier, to review. Solving this case is Macy’s main goal and as she joins forces with an old acquaintance, Sheriff Mike Nevada, they quickly discover that there is more happening in the small town of Deep Run than meets the eye.

The characters are well developed and the writing is quite fast paced and it manages to keep the reader hooked all the way through.The investigation aspect is very interesting and has a few twists and turns you don’t see coming.

Overall if you are looking for something that will keep you on the edge if your seat, this is the book for you.

!!!WARNING: mentions of rape, description of violent acts( they are not especially graphic but may be difficult to read)

Hide and Seek The Psychology of Self-Deception

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