Chief Detective David Wolf is called to a crime scene next to the Chautauqua River, where a woman resident of Rocky Points has been murdered. The killer has left a well-known signature not seen for years–a severed ear. For Wolf, the gruesome display is a surprise, but so is the FBI beating the local department to the scene.Three days earlier a truck is unearthed from south of Durango, Colorado. … Durango, Colorado. Within it is DNA evidence linking to killings in southwest Colorado that have stumped the FBI for years. The evidence, and now a new body, has led them north, where it seems the monster known by all as The Van Gogh Killer has chosen Rocky Points as his new venue to display his horrific works.
While the town reels with panic, Wolf learns the latest victim was dating an SBCSD deputy whose past directly links to the killings in the Four Corners area. Worse, the news the case involves one of their own means the higher-ups want to outsource the investigation to the feds. It’s a matter of due process and objectivity.
With his community in danger there’s no swaying Wolf, however, and Special Agent Kristen Luke sees the value in using his skills, convincing her superiors to add Wolf to the killer task force. Now part of the team, Wolf learns there are more secrets the FBI isn’t telling everyone, and the unanswered questions are more than anyone can deal with.
In this nail-biting ninth book of the David Wolf Mystery-Thriller series, Wolf and Luke are pushed to their furthest limits yet to find the answers. But the killer isn’t waiting around for them to figure it out. He has more work to do. More payments that require his signature.
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Great read!
Any book in the David Wolfe series is an interesting and suspenseful read.
Great book! highly recommend
Love love love Jeff Carson. When I start one of his books I don’t put it down until I’m finished!
Serial killer, county sheriff and FBI. It all adds up to an exciting race to stop the killing amid political games and power struggles. And, then there are the personal interactions… I was floored by the wrap up and satisfied with the conclusion.
I enjoyed it. The ending was a little dragged out.
This is the second book by J. Carson. I’ve read. I think this author, keeps you on the edge of your seat. I think the author kept his characters moving and did not fill the page with minutia.Gripping thriller.
Not coherent in many instances. Difficult to connect characters to incidents with too many goings on. Need to streamline and stick more to the main theme.
Great characters; fast-paced story.
Couldn’t put it down. Great read.
This was a new author for me and one I enjoyed as a fast paced and intense chase for a serial killer.
Wolf as a detective and Luke an FBI agent team up to solve crimes against women that had stopped for several years…and is now on Wolf’s hometown turf. The FBI versus the town cops has always been a problem with each team trying to solve the case and not cooperating in many books. This book showcases the struggle and realistically shows what happens as information is withheld and clues are missed.
Wolf is a fully developed person in love with Lauren and her daughter Ella and his thoughts go to her throughout the book . He is a moral, thoughtful guy that plays by the rules…if everyone else does. And Luke, the FBI agent is a high ranking woman that knows Wolf all to well and her team plans to win and catch the killer. You are introduced to members of each team and get to know them to the point you really worry when one of them is missing.
Good plotting, no gratuitous violence/sex but intense as it needs to be as a serial killer is taking women.
The clues are there and come together perfectly at the end…..i will definitely read more of these books.
I completely missed on this one. I can usually figure out who did what to whom early in the book and then it is a question of reading to the end to confirm that I was correct. Not this time. Totally engaging!
Just wasn’t my cup of tea- nothing against the author, just couldn’t identify with the story.
Signature is a fast-paced thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat until the unexpected end. An excellent read!
The central character seems to be the least well-developed of the central characters, an interesting way to write some pretty good stories.
Just read this and glad I found a new series to read. Very believable and straight forward characters.
This book was so scattered. It was extremely hard to follow because it kept jumping around. Too many adjectives and not enough explanation of what’s going on.
Jeff is a very good author. I have read 6 or 7 of his books. I enjoy his characters and the books are usually very engrossing.
LOVE the David Wolf books! I have read them all, and have absolutely loved them all! Good plots, with surprises often thrown in to keep a reader on his/her toes.
Fast moving twist at the end