5 stars, highly recommended A serial killer, his victim who wants to die. The profiler, the cop. The chase. The Prettiest Feathers has it all and then some. John Wolf meets Sarah Sinclair. A woman who wants to die. Over the course of a few days, John Wolf helps Sarah Sinclair meet the destiny she has unknowingly been walking towards all her life. By killing her, he exposes himself to his ultimate destiny - Dr Lucas Frank, a criminal profiler with a speciality in catching the serial killers he seems to know so well. Co-author John Philpin, himself a criminal profiler, gets inside the mind of John Wolf so deeply that you cannot help but respond to him, understand him on a very basic level. With that understanding comes the knowledge that but for circumstances, any one of us could be John Wolf. I found myself comparing this book to the Dexter books, of which I have read the first and have started the second. While Dexter has certainly popularised the rise of the serial killer as a likable character, John Philpin's portrayal of John Wolf brings us back to the evil a serial killer truly is. A being without conscience, or rather a being true to his own warped conscience. Between them, Patricia Sierra and John Philpin have done a top notch job in bringing out the characters in this novel. If delving into the mind of a serial killer is your thing, then this book is well worth the purchase price.
