 – Customer review on 16/01/2008
Hooray, finally another instalment in the Bishop/Special Crimes Unit FBI series, and people, it’s a good one. If you’re after sensual romance, forget it, but if you’re after a good, creepy, lock-your-doors tale, you’ll enjoy this. For those new to the series, The SCU is the psychic arm of the FBI, not quite accepted but with such excellent results that the new Director can’t complain too much. While Bishop and his wife Miranda play small parts in most of the series, each book concentrates on a particular psychic. In this case it’s Dani, who actually works for a civilian psychic crime-fighting unit co-founded by Bishop. Dani dreams true visions, and this time it’s about a serial killer, who is drawn by Hooper with a chilling brilliance. She doesn’t go over the top, and it’s this very reasonableness in his thoughts and actions that make him so creepy and believable. Dani is forced to return to her home town of Venture, knowing the evil has spread there. The man she once loved and ran from is also there, as is her twin sister, also a psychic. For those who read the series, Hollis is also a major player. She appeared first in ‘Touching Evil’ as a victim, and then ‘Sense of Evil’ as a new medium. She’s also famous among her colleagues as the officer who has been most wounded in the unit, and she doesn’t disappoint them here either. This is such a well-plotted, well-written book, and Hooper’s characters more believable than usual, My favourite, however, is still ‘Out of the Shadows’ where Bishop and Miranda finally meet again.
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– Customer review on 09/01/2009
