The Last One

In my world, there are no coincidences. Only carefully constructed scenarios…

One victim was paralyzed by the killer right on a crowded subway platform at rush hour—and thrown under a train. The second was drowned in alcohol. And that’s only the beginning. Each murder is exotic and never repeats the others. It seems there’s no connection between them. But there is…

For detective Becky Vincent, this investigation could become a career boost. It requires only “the tiniest thing”: find the right person among a sea of faces on the underground cameras. Becky turns to Joe Russell from a semi-official unit of the London police—people who are known as super-recognizers. Their phenomenal memory contains a huge database of faces of different people, allowing recognition to be more effective than computers and building chains of associations inaccessible to an ordinary person. Russell turns all his unique abilities on full power.

But time isn’t on their side. The killer is crossing off new and new names from his list, acting on a logic known only to him. How can they find the link between the victims before he reaches the last of them?

An atmospheric thriller about a serial killer, with an original twist on the rules of the genre.