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mama_thesaurus's review against another edition
The final 50 pages are spent listening to the criminal talk and talk and talk and talk. I just couldn't...
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Graphic: Sexual violence
jakewritesbooks's review against another edition
4.0
(3.5) This one is far from my favorite in the series. The assailant is a Jack the Ripper type and I've never been a fan of gruesome murders centered around the bloodied bodies of women. There's also too much "getting in the mind of a serial killer", another genre I don't enjoy (this was a lot more fun when the detective got into the "mind" of the person who's death he was investigating in book one of the series He Died With His Eyes Open.). But make no mistake, it's always fun to see the nameless detective in action, giving the middle finger to the powers of the world in a way we wish we all could. A decent Factory book is better than 95% of the other crime novels I read.
janhicks's review against another edition
4.0
This was a quick read. Not quite as world weary as the others in the series, it goes into the emerging technique of psychological profiling of serial killers that was introduced in the late 80s/early 90s. The killer is caught about 3/4s of the way through, and the rest of the book centres on the interviews conducted by the police psychiatrist. You get the impression that the unnamed detective sergeant is on the verge of calming the rage that has driven him through the other cases, now that he has this new tool in solving and potentially preventing the unexplained deaths his unit investigates. A good ending to the series.
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