TWISTED

It was nothing Petra would have ever noticed, even if it had stared her in the face. And her initial reaction is big deal. A year after the Cold Heart murders and Detective Petra Connor is, once again, working Hollywood Homicide solo. She''s struggling with a baffling drive-past murder when Isaac Gomez appears in her office to tell her he''s found something she might want to take a look at. Isaac, a twenty-two-year-old prodigy researching crime patterns for his thesis, has been assigned to Petra''s care, and she views him with a mixture of protectiveness and irritation. His idea that there''s a connection between six unsolved murders committed in the LAPD area over the past six years, all at around midnight on June 28, seems fanciful at first - but as Petra starts to look closely at the files, the links become more and more clear. Something evil has managed to conceal itself between the dry pages: a series of killings so meticulously constructed that the mind behind them would have remained invisible without Isaac''s sharp probing. And June 28 is just a month away - will Petra be able to stop the murderer from striking again? Twisted is the second Petra Connor novel and a superb example of Jonathan Kellerman''s mastery of the psychological thriller. In a work as compelling as anything he''s written, the Sunday Times bestselling author builds up suspense so subtly that the reader is hooked without knowing it, and drawn on to the very last page.