Monday With Kaye: "The Last Victim" by Karen Robards (Reviewed by Kaye George)

This week Kaye George brings us the start of a new series with her review of  The Last Victim by Karen Robards.  Make sure you scroll back through time and read the other “Monday With Kaye” segments as you poke around the blog….

“The Last Victim” by Karen Robards

This paranormal romantic thriller—emphasis on the romance—is the first of a new series featuring

Dr. Charlotte (Charlie) Stone. She’s a serial killer expert with a personal tie to serial killers and an extra ability she wishes she didn’t have.

Fifteen years ago, when she was teenager, she survived one of the attacks of a killer who murdered three entire families in their homes. The killer was never caught, and left Charlie traumatized for years. The killer slaughtered the families and abducted the teenage daughters, leaving their bodies under a boardwalk a few days later. He was dubbed the Boardwalk Killer. She went into her chosen profession to try to make up for the fact that the one particular sicko was never caught.

Her current job involves analyzing convicted serial killers, working in the prison, and conducting interviews. However, when two Virginia Beach families are killed and their daughters found under boardwalks, FBI agents Ryan Sinclair and Buzz Crane recruit her. They don’t realize that, in addition to her experience years ago with what may be the same killer, she possesses an ability that—though she doesn't like to use it—will help enormously. She’s reluctant to get involved until a third family is killed. The daughter is missing. If Charlie works fast, and if the inmate she’s currently treating will cooperate—a guy as evil as he is hot—she may be able to save a life, if she can keep from falling into the clutches of the handsome killer.

Reviewed by Kaye George, author of Broke for Suspense Magazine