"We Serial Killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere." (*)

This disturbing quote Ted Bundy (*) prepends Theresa Ragan her novel "A Dark Mind" and each chapter begins with a quote from a "famous" real serial killer.
One in my opinion very successful entry into an exciting thriller.
"A Dark Mind" is the third book in the series about the detective Lizzy Gardner and, since it tells a self-contained criminal case, be easily read by themselves.
Nevertheless, I recommend to those who are not familiar with the series to start at interest with the first two volumes "Abducted" and "Dead Weight" to have a better overview of the histories of the main protagonists and their relations with each other, the one located otherwise only gradually develop out of context.

In Sacramento offset the so-called "Lovebird Killer" that kills cruelly lovers, the population in fear and terror.
The investigator Lizzy Gardner is equally involved in two ways in the action, on the one hand directs her friend the official investigation into the case and on the other hand it tries itself to prove the innocence of their clients, the device after the murder of his wife under suspicion , the perpetrator to be.

"A Dark Mind" is a very exciting thriller with consistent drawn characters and a variety of surprising twists, which I love to read.
The idea to make frequent perspective and change of location for stylistic devices and also to work with flashbacks and drawers, I liked basically very, because the solution to the puzzle is gradually putting together in this way like a puzzle into a coherent whole, however, is partially arg frequently switch between different narrative levels and hergesprungen; anything less would have been there more for my taste.
Even through the various narrative strands, in particular the search for the killer Lovebird and Lizzy's private investigation, a long time completely disjointed side by side, before they are finally linked.
A (small) asterisk I draw from hence, but nonetheless is "A Dark Mind" a really exciting thriller, I can absolutely recommend friends of the genre.

(*) The quote was, however, somewhat modified by the author, here the original text:
(We) "are not some kinds of inherent monsters. We are your sons and we are your husbands."