The Naturals
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural profiler and ever since she stumbled across the scene of her mother’s murder (although the body was never found), she’s felt like something in her life was missing. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want, but it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie.
What Cassie doesn’t realize is that there’s more at risk than a few cold cases, especially when she’s sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own.
Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. And when a new killer strikes, danger looms closer than Cassie could ever have imagined. Caught in a lethal game of cat and mouse with a killer, the Naturals are going to have to use all their gifts just to survive.
After Cassie joins the group, some strange murders start happening close to town. Women are found dead, their faces curved up. Half of them are red-heads and half of them worked as psychics. Cassie’s mum was both and her murder that happened 5 years ago is still unsolved. Cassie believes that this case is connected to her mother’s, and she is determined to find the killer.
We get peeks into the murders mind with a few chapters from a YOU point of view, those chapters were the creepiest ones. It was amazing to see the little details that profilers use to find out more about the UNSUBs and their victims.
This book starts off a little slow, but the pace quickly picks up and then it’s basically impossible to put the book down. The intriguing plot, the short chapters and the fast pacing made it so easy to fly through and they managed to keep me interested from the beginning to the very end.
I would give this book 5 stars because all the little details that make the whole book are so carefully thought out and written so beautifully. It is appropriate for anyone over 13 due to some gruesome topics and some of the scenes described.
Published by Quercus, 2013
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