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A Little Death: A Forensic Cold Case Mystery (Kate Hanson Mysteries) - Softcover

Buch 3 von 5: Kate Hanson

Cross, A. J.

 
9781847517777: A Little Death: A Forensic Cold Case Mystery (Kate Hanson Mysteries)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1847517773 ISBN 13: 9781847517777
Verlag: Severn House, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Dr Kate Hanson and the Unsolved Crime Unit are facing their most challenging cold case yet: the year-old murder of a female student.

When, a year after she went missing, the body of 19-year-old student Elizabeth Williams is discovered in a field near her college, Dr Kate Hanson and her colleagues are faced with a seemingly impossible challenge. The badly decomposed remains are offering up few clues, and witnesses are proving either unreliable or reluctant to talk at all.

With little in the way of forensic evidence, Kate realizes that if she is to have any chance of discovering who killed Elizabeth, she must find out what motivated the killer, the reason behind the murder, the why. To do that, she must look beyond what she and her colleagues are being told by those who knew Elizabeth – and into the twisted psyche of a dangerous murderer: a killer whom Kate suspects is ready to kill again.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A.J. Cross is a forensic psychologist with over twenty years’ experience in the field. She lives in Birmingham with her jazz-musician husband. As well as the Will Traynor series, she is the author of five Kate Hanson Cold Case mysteries.

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This is from ‘A Little Death’ and my protagonist, Dr Kate Hanson is in work-mode. She’s a forensic psychologist and I like to show how she thinks. For Hanson, all the cases she works on are about the psychology of the killer and often that of the victim's. She’s always driven to know why the victims died. This case is no different:

Reaching into her bag for a ponytail band, she slipped it onto her hair. She looked down at the sheets and the words of a killer; an attacker who had spoken to his victims. Forget the similarities of the words and the statements, she told herself. Look beyond them. Search for the underlying meaning.

‘Come on. What kind of person are you? What are you about? Tell me.’

She studied the printed lines, noting how he’d flagged up his intentions: ‘I’m going to turn you round . . .’ Amy had described what he did as ‘planned’, a man with ring-less hands who’d been gentle at times, reassuring her that everything would be OK. This man who’d attacked her had exhibited some capacity to care. She made a quick note, then ran her fingers across her forehead. On the other hand, Watts was right. That same man had also shown a capacity for violence in his pursuit of what he wanted.

‘What was it you wanted? What was at the heart of all of this? If it was strangulation, why didn’t you do it?’

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Verlag
Severn House
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1847517773
ISBN 13 
9781847517777
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Anzahl der Seiten
249
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