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Shadow Wars by Steve Logan

A killer is leaving the most beautiful blonde women in Miami dead on the beaches. He kills at whim and leaves no clues. He kills to draw forensic psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Kinmont into his web. She must overcome an intense fear of violence that drove her to solve the unsolvable murder, and catch him before he kills another stunningly beautiful blonde.

A master of mental disguises, he tells a national radio audience night after night that he will kill until she catches him. She grows curious. Could he have clues as to what happened to her parents who disappeared when she was a child? She discovers he is a cousin, at the same time he threatens to push her graduate student assistant and preschool daughter off the roof at a mall.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
How difficult to spot villain? - Challenging
Time/era of story:
What % of story relates directly to the mystery, not the subplot? - 80%
Special suspect? - relative
Misc. Murder Plotlets - Big focus on forensic evidence - Killer purposely leaves clues
Kind of investigator
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Any non-mystery subplot?
descript. of violence and chases - 0 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20 %
Crime Thriller Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown) Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Race

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status:
Eccentric: Yes
Motive of antagonist - revenge
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Southeast
City? Yes
City: - Miami

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Explicit sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - actual description of sex
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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