Close your eyes - Michael Robotham (First edition; Joseph O'Loughlin #8)

I close my eyes and feel my heart begin racing.
Someone is coming.
They’re going to find me.

A mother and her teenage daughter are found murdered in a remote farmhouse, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other left lying like Sleeping Beauty waiting for her prince.

Reluctantly, clinical psychologist Joe O’Loughlin is drawn into the investigation when a former student, calling himself the Mindhunter, jeopardises the police inquiry by leaking details to the media and stirring up public anger.

With no shortage of suspects, and tempers beginning to fray, Joe discovers links between these murders to a series of brutal attacks where the victims have been choked unconscious and had the letter ‘A’ carved into their foreheads.

As the case becomes ever more complex, Joe’s fate and the fate of those closest to him, become intertwined with a merciless, unpredictable killer . . .