The Profiler: A CSI Reilly Steel mystery

Reilly Steel returns in a gripping new chapter of the USA Today bestselling forensic mystery series. Former GFU investigator Reilly Steel is back in Florida to join her former mentor, legendary ex-FBI profiler Daniel Forrest, at his private behavioral analysis consultancy. But before she can settle into her new role, a frantic call pulls them both into a brand new case: a family held hostage in their beachfront home by an unidentified captor who communicates through a series of complex riddles and psychological trials. As the crisis deepens, and the hostage-taker begins broadcasting the family’s torment online, Daniel must call on his wealth of behavioural insight to stay ahead of a mind that appears to anticipate every move. With his son, Todd taking command of the police response, personal fault lines quickly begin to fracture under pressure. Old wounds resurface, loyalties are tested and all too soon, the profiler becomes the profiled. Until Daniel is faced with the ultimate choice; in order to save the hostages - and his own son - the famed profiler must face the one mind he never managed to understand: his own.