He’s going to kill you. He just doesn’t know it yet.
Midnight Jones is an analyst trained to understand the human mind. But everything changes when, in the course of her work, she discovers Profile K’s file – because K stands for killer, and she knows that someone more dangerous than she could have ever imagined walks among them.
Midnight knows what Profile K is capable of before he even commits his first crime. But as the news rolls with the brutal murder of a local woman, no one believes what she tells them: that he is capable of so much worse.
Profile K will kill again – and, terrifyingly, Midnight realises that the moment she found his file was the moment she became his next target. Because Profile K is coming for Midnight – and the only way to escape with her life is to find him before he finds her…
The million-copy bestseller is back with a dark, terrifying journey into the mind of a psychopath that will keep you riveted until the very last page.
Book Info: 384 pages. Publisher: Avon. Publication Date: 25 April 2024
My thoughts:
Profile K is Helen Field’s latest standalone creepy, psychological thriller and my thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read this book prior to publication.
Midnight Jones works at the London office of Necto, a biotech specialising in the human brain. Her job is to analyse the psychological profiles of applicants for university or job interviews. Her boss is a grade 1 twat, a real jobsworth who tries to make her life as difficult as possible, which isn’t that difficult because she’s also the primary carer for her twin sister, Dawn, who has severe special needs.
Midnight needs this job to pay for Dawn’s carers and to keep her at home, and despite having a first class degree in social sciences and a master’s degree in psychology and neuroscience, she needs this job due to the above average salary.
One of the profiles Midnight is analysing appears to have malfunctioned as it displays alarming personality traits, so she runs the programme again to check and discovers something horrific. The system generates a “Profile K” result which was as far as the Necto employees knew an urban myth as K stands for Killer, but unfortunately this is no urban myth and a killer is on the loose and now knows who Midnight is.
With some horrific, violent and gruesome murders, Profile K is a gripping and dark story. The Killer is really disturbed and this book is definitely not for the faint-hearted. It’s pacy and gripping and kept me turning those pages from the opening chapter to the end. As well as being dark and disturbing, it’s also thought-provoking, especially as the reader learns more about Necto and what the company does.
As well as the crime and murder themes, the story examines Midnight’s relationship with her twin sister Dawn, their absent parents and the responsibility she has undertaken for most of their lives. It’s difficult not to be emotionally affected by their situation and thankfully Doris brings the much needed light relief into the story when she befriends Midnight and Dawn.
Overall, it’s a gripping and original thriller which I thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend and for those of you who have read The Institution and/or The Shadow Man, you will be delighted to know that Dr Connie Woolwine has a cameo role in Profile K.
