The Hundredth Man - Jack Kerley

The Hundredth Man is the debut novel from Jack Kerley, the author of Blood Brother, and launches the series that features Carson Ryder; a detective jumped up the ranks from patrolman due to his assistance in helping to solve a previous serial murder case through his leaps of amazing intuition. Except there is a reason for his leaps of intuition; Ryder has a secret. His brother is a killer locked in a mental health secure unit after the murder of their father and five young girls....and Ryder used his brother in his last case to give him valuable insight into a sick and twisted mind! When a pair of headless bodies are found in quick succession with ...  Read the complete review

There are several jobs that I could never see myself doing, one of which is being a pathologist whose job it is to autopsy the victims of crime. The idea of being elbow deep in the entrails of someone that was alive only hours before does not tempt me at all. However, the idea of being a person that can help to uncover the criminal does appeal. One of my options after leaving University was to join to police and perhaps here I could have risen to a position of detective, hunting down killers. But would I then have to visit the morgue? Perhaps I was right to avoid that job too. It's hard for me to imagine what kind of person would end up there - could they be ...  Read the complete review