Paperback – Cold Blood, Alex Kava, Danièle Laruelle

Panic in Platte City, Nebraska. A ten-year-old boy has just been discovered, bearing strange stigmata. Near the lifeless body, a few clues: a cross, pieces of rope, scraps of fabric. Called in as backup by Nick Morelli, the local police chief, Maggie O'Dell, an FBI profiler, is adamant: this murder resembles those committed by Ronald Jeffreys, a serial killer executed a few months earlier. Is this new crime the work of a copycat, a "mimic" of terrifying intelligence? To answer, they'll have to move fast, very fast. Because soon two other children are found murdered. As if the killer was seized by a sudden frenzy. Platte City sinks into anguish and nightmare. For Maggie O'Dell and Nick Morelli, a ruthless battle against horror has begun. Against absolute Evil...