Perfect Killer

by Robb T. White

Jade Hui is an FBI agent on the way down—until, that is, her supervising agent assigns her a triple-murder investigation. She soon must overcome bureaucratic obstacles to catch a free-roaming, amoral killer who leaves neither pattern nor motive in his wake. Her suspect is not a typical spree killer or psychotic fantasy killer. Born into wealth and privilege, gifted with great intelligence and strength, Charles Wöissell has his own reasons for traveling across America selecting victims. Wöissell intends to burn every bridge left—home, family, safety—for revenge against the one woman who has put herself in his path.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published October 23, 2017

Reviews

[Linda Strong · Rating 4 out of 5]

He's the perfect killer ... the one who kills randomly, never leaving a clue to his identity. Now you see him, now you don't. He's average everything, blends in perfectly. He has a food truck enabling him to travel across country easily. He was born in wealth, and daydreams about killing his entire family. He is intelligent and very, very strong.

His standard is to strangle his victims and then remove their eyes ... with nothing but his fingers. He can crush the life out of anyone with just the pressure of his arm or thighs.

FBI Agent Jade Hui wants this killer ... badly ... already on her last days because of her attitude. She is definitely not a team player. She's embarrassed a few of her partners ...and her superiors. This is her last chance to prove herself ...or she moves on to do something else with her life.

Jade is intense, focused on her prey. She's determined that she will take him down. She's small, but deadly. She's taken every kind of martial arts known. She can hold her own. She tracks every murder, every food truck, across the entire country. She tracks him day by day.

What happens when she finds him? If she finds him? Why does this one small female agent cause the killer so much stress?

This is a well-written crime thriller with a good story-line. The reader learns a lot about the killer, about why he is the way he is and why he does the things he does. He's basically a loner, but seems to be able to fit in wherever he is. He's great as disguises and changing his own personality when necessary.

Jade is a strong female character, and while she might make a mistake here and there, she doesn't cross that line.

It's fast-paced and riveting to follow the two of them in a dance of death.

Many thanks to the author / Book Review Buzz for the digital copy. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

[Jordan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed the story that the author wrote; it was a very interesting idea. That being said, I had numerous issues with the novel on a macro scale. Firstly, for a thriller, this book read a lot slower than I was used to, compared to other crime thrillers I've read. This book took me a lot longer to get through even though it was shorter in page count than usual novels I read. However, the pace finally picked up in the last quarter of the book or so. When reading the book, it seemed as though the author was so excited about the overall story and just wanted to get the story written from beginning to end. I felt that there were numerous occasions that warranted a lot more detail to really immerse the reader in the story. I feel that more detail would drastically improve the story and benefit the reader. For example, as the book is about tracking a serial killer, when the killer would kill one of his victims, it often ended up as an after thought in the story; very few details if any, of how the victims were killed were written. The author would have the victim alive in one line of the book and in the very next, the killer would be reminiscing about killing the victim in a sentence or two. This same rapid switch of scenes would occur in other parts of the story, without any type of sentence or paragraph connecting two scenes; the flow of the story was very choppy at times.
I hate giving this book a low rating, as I know it takes a lot of work to write and get a book published. However, with the analysis above, I can't give it anything more than 2 stars.

[Vickie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfect Killer... Is one of my favorite murder mystery books of the summer... Its definitely a must read. It was everything that I thought it would be and more.

His thing is to strangle his victims and then remove their eyes with just his finger.. He is a bad man. He can take the life out of a person with his bare hands, arms, and thigh. WOW...

I can't wait to get a hard copy of this book to read it again.

[Rowena Hoseason · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stylish, chilling and more than a little bit challenging, this American manhunt mixes a really remarkable serial murderer who has a penchant for peculiar philosophy with an intense, beleaguered FBI investigator. Superficially it owes a lot to Silence of The Lambs, but Perfect Killer stands apart as an enthralling novel in its own right. Jade Hui is a powerful female protagonist, beset but never beaten by personal and professional obstacles. She’s evenly matched against by weirdly compelling killer, Charles Wöissell, who’s one of the most scarily credible fictional psychopaths we’ve ever encountered. Gruesome in places, the story’s strength comes from the complexity of its characters.