Into the Black Nowhere by Meg Gardiner
Reviewed By: Rebecca Cox, Business Manager
Genre: Fiction
Suggested Age: Adults
What is This Book About? Women in Texas begin disappearing on Saturday nights from conspicuous places –a movie theater, a car idling at a stoplight and a third vanishes from her own home while checking on her baby. Caitlin Hendrix, rookie FBI agent and profiler for the Behavioral Analysis Unit, along with her team are dispatched to Austin to investigate. They find the first victim’s body in the woods laid out in a bloodstained white nightgown, surrounded by polaroid pictures. Each photo pictures a different woman laid out in the same way showing that the unknown subject (unsub) has killed far more women than the FBI realized. In order to catch him, Caitlin and her team must get inside his mind to catch him before he claims more victims.
My Review: Fans of the television series Criminal Minds (like me) and true crime buffs are going to really enjoy this fictional crime thriller, the second in the Unsub series by Gardiner. It is fast paced and detailed, easily pulling you into the story and simultaneously freaking you out! With details paralleling the famous murders of infamous serial killer Ted Bundy in a modern-day context, this book was hard for me to put down. Caitlin Hendrix is a fantastic character – unlike so many female law enforcement protagonists who tend to be unbelievably portrayed as “good at everything,” her character has a depth and flaws that make her extremely relatable. She is a rookie in the FBI and this novel shows her start to understand her new role as an agent and learn to trust her instincts when it comes to profiling a killer.
Three Words that Describe this Book: Fast-paced, Suspenseful, Compelling
Give this a try if you like… Criminal Minds, Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, China Lake by Meg Gardiner,
Rating: 5/5
