Name: Twisted
ISBN: 9781451617375

Laura Griffin

When a seemingly open-and-shut murder case is called into question by legendary FBI profiler Mark Wolfe, rookie detective Allison Doyle joins him on the hunt for an elusive psychopath who, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake, is only days away from his next kill. Original. 200,000 first printing.

Twisted

Leonie

Lynn Braden

Mark Wolfe is a forty something jaded FBI agent that handles cases involving serial killers and child predators. One case has consumed him for over a decade, a serial killer in California killing women on the same dates each year over a period of several years. Now he suspects that the killer has moved to Texas and is preying on women there. When he arrives, he meets Allison Doyle who at 27 has fast tracked her way into the Crimes Against Persons Detective Unit because of her work on the recent shootings at a local college campus. 
The first half of this book is excellent. We learn more and more about the serial killer due to the efforts of the local detectives and the Tracers from the Delphi Center. There are lots of twists and turns that amp up the suspense as more evidence is added, narrowing the suspect pool. Mark and Allison are clearly very different characters, so it is clear that even though they are attracted to one another, there are good reasons why they can't be together. The last part of the book suffers from a cliched damsel in distress scenario and some of the important clues are left hanging or are quickly dismissed, devaluing the excellent mystery developed earlier in the book, but overall, this is a very good entry in the Tracers Series which seems to improve with each new entry.