The book I read for my Specialist Study was Killing the Shadows written by Val McDermid. The book is about an academic psychologist, Fiona Cameron, who uses computers to help track serial offenders. I expected this book to have undeveloped characters and a very basic plot, some one gets murdered then someone catches the murderer, however I was very surprised to find complex characters as well as a very complex plot, which I did not …showed first 75 words of 1210 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1210 total…this book does not follow the typical crime/thriller genre. The characters are written in a way that makes them seem believable, the plot is complex however it is very addictive for me, once I started to read I could not put the book down. The different sections of the plot added a new dimension to the plot and the detailed characters also help’s set this book apart from others in it’s genre.