The climax is completely unexpected.Īs is Patterson’s trademark style there are red herrings galore and more twists and turns than a serpentine. Through clever and dogged police work Dockery finally unmasks the murderer and finds out who Citizen David is and the source of the leaks to a journalist friend of Dockery’s. But he disappears regularly and suspicion falls on him too. “Books” has also given shelter to a homeless man Sergeant Petty, a retired veteran and allows him to sleep in a storeroom in the bookstore. What’s more FBI assistant director Dwight Ross enlists the help of Harold “Books” Bookman, a retired FBI investigator who owns a struggling bookstore and is Dockery’s lover, to spy on her activities. The story that she’s there is leaked to the Picayune-Times which lands her in hot water and she is pulled off the case. But she makes it clear to the detective that she is not there on official FBI business and he willingly co-operates. Breaking all the rules and disobeying her superiors she heads for New Orleans to investigate another death. However, there is a copycat, Charlie, who also watches Dockery closely, to the extent that he breaks into her house and clones her computer system and puts a tracker on her vehicle. Citizen David, who appears to have resources and money has never killed anyone at the places he bombs. His targets are corporations and the justice system which treats people unfairly. She also works with her two trusted colleagues data analysts Bonita “Rabbit” Sexton and geek Eric “Pully” Pullman.Īt the heart of it is Citizen David, who has claimed responsibility for several acts of civil disobedience and domestic terrorism over the past few months. Documents relating to the cases are pinned up on a wall at home. Nonetheless she soldiers on and after a spell away from the office she is back in Unsolved still as obsessed as ever. Her boss, FBI executive assistant director Julius Dickinson, whom she calls “The Dick” with good reason, doesn’t support her hypothesis. During the course of her probe she finds other victims who suffered the same fate. But Dockery sets out to show otherwise and she collects evidence that proves her case. The official investigators believe it is was accidental. Unsolved is the sequel to Invisible where Dockery investigates a fire in which her sister died.

The FBI researcher is convinced that there is a pattern and her mantra is “where there is a pattern there is a serial killer”. Emmy Dockery is obsessed with finding the link between a series of deaths across several states.

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