Killing the Shadows Val McDermid Author

A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey-writers of best-selling crime novels, who are unaware that they have scripted their own murders. For this diabolical killer reenacts the most chilling scenes in his victim... Read more

A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact and fiction. His prey-writers of best-selling crime novels, who are unaware that they have scripted their own murders. For this diabolical killer reenacts the most chilling scenes in his victims' books. The desperate hunt to uncover his identity becomes a matter of life and death for one woman...Professor Fiona Cameron is an academic psychologist who uses computer technology to help police forces track serial offenders. Fiona is working a case in Toledo when her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin, tells her a fellow crime novelist has been killed. It's not her case, but Fiona can't help taking an interest. And it isn't long before the killer strikes again. And again... Now Fiona finds herself caught in a race against time, culminating in a tense confrontation between hunter and hunted, a confrontation that can have only one outcome... Author Biography: Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community and then read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for sixteen years and is now a full-time writer and lives in South Manchester. In 1995, she won the Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year. Her most recent novel, A Place of Execution, won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Less