No one can read a crime scene, interpret signs, or decode a suspect's behaviour better than Alex can.
A criminal psychologist, Alex works with the Los Angeles police to read the clues and solve the most complex of crimes in the city of illusions, glamour and infamy.
Not since Jack the Ripper has there been such a gruesome crime scene. One look at the victim's apartement-turned-charnel-house is enough for Milo Sturgis to summon 'The Crime Reader'. But even Alex Delaware's skills may be tested too far when more slayings occur in the same ghastly fashion... with no apparent connection between them. The only clue left behind - a blank page bearing a question mark - seems to be both a menacing taunt and a cry for help from a killer baffled by his own lethal urges. This one will haunt 'The Crime Reader''s waking life, and his darkest dreams, long after its end.
