Brent W. A. Henderson Offers Suspense and Murder in PROFILE OF A KILLER

The news travelled like fire. Metro Atlanta is now dealing with yet another serial murderer who targets children, this time preadolescent females at Georgia's Stone Mountain Park. Chief of Detectives Theo Reed and his forensic psychiatrist friend Aiden O'Brian are in a tight grip to find the killer. Reed pulls out all the stops to find the killer. Profile of a Killer, by Brent W. A. Henderson is a heart stopping and riveting suspense thriller serial murder. Readers will be left on the edge of their seats as this thrilling book is full of surprises with an unexpected turn and death-defying twist.

The story begins with the discovery of a young female found in a cove of Stone Mountain Lake. Soon after, two early adolescent girls disappear during the laser show while visiting the park. Then another young girl is found in a patch of bushes on the golf course at the mountain. Reed and O'Brian work with a task force investigating the murders. O'Brian develops a profile of the killer which narrows the investigation. While investigating the case both Reed and O'Brian have their own inner conflicts with which they must deal. A suspect is finally identified and the identity rocks both men, but they now begin working to prove this is the correct person. The investigation determines the killer not only has a past of killing girls but also a very tortured upbringing. The killer is a crafty, manipulative person and not unaware of the police task force working hard to catch him. To make things worse a copycat killer shows up and must be dealt with. Knowing the police and getting close the killer weaves a complicated trail as he flees the area. It is O'Brian who recognizes the real trail and he must convince Detective Reed, who has dispatched all his forces to the Atlanta airport, to change his course. What happens next is an exciting chase that leads Reed and O'Brian into the South Carolina scrub pine and palmetto swamps which are teaming with alligators, rattlesnakes and copperheads.

What follows is an exciting chase involving hostages and a good chance the killer will escape. The swamp is a dangerous place to try to find anyone. Does he get away? Readers will want to read on to see.

Profile of a Killer is an action-packed volume loaded with substance and filled with suspense. It is a powerful and gripping masterpiece that offers a fast-paced story that is both thrilling and entertaining.

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About the Author
Brent W.A. Henderson, writing under the pseudonym Brent W. A. Henderson was born and raised in Idaho. He graduated from Idaho State University in 1961 with a degree in English. He taught high school English in Pocatello, Idaho for three years. Following that, he began graduate school at Utah State University, but left to begin a career as a Special Agent with the FBI where he stayed for 25 years. During his time in the bureau, he was trained as a hostage negotiator and as a profiler in unknown subject cases involving serial rapists, child molesters and murderers. He cooperated in the research that the FBI was conducting on serial offenders. He received a Master of Science in Special Education with an Emotional Distrubance Option from Montana State University - Billings. Then after getting his Masters of Special Education, he attended the University of Georgia and received a Masters of Social Work. He then went to work for noted psychiatrist Gene G. Abel, MD treating sexual offenders for several years. Then, he attended the American International Institute of Polygraph in 2000, interned in the United Kingdom testing only sexual offenders. He returned to England two more times, both to test and help teach the first polygraph school in the UK. He tested sex offenders in Georgia, New York and Connecticut. In fact work with sex offenders is all he has done since leaving teaching. He also has coauthored numerous journal articles and book chapters on sexual offenders. Henderson and his wife Mary currently live in a cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia. They share their time and space with two Shelties, Sally and Ruby. This is Henderson's first novel.

Profile of a Killer * by Brent W. A. Henderson
A Suspense/Murder Mystery
Publication Date: May 20, 2013
Trade Paperback; $19.99; 264 pages; 978-1-4836-0115-1
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