Samantha Marlow is going to die. She just doesn't know how, when, or why. Unfortunately, the FBI believes her life may be in danger sooner than later. And when she is asked to join Illinois’ lead B.A.U team investigating a series of child murders, she begins to suspect it is more for her protection than her expertise.
But as Samantha begins to unravel the clues she realizes the serial killer is patterning his victims after the characters in her books. As the bodies pile up, Sam is forced to out-think someone she helped create.
This is the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, not with a bang... but a whimper.
Of Hollow Men is largely centered around the poem "The Hollow Men" by T.S Elliot, which sets the tone of the narrative as much as it serves as a central focal point to the plot. This is the first book in the off beat cop-shop crime series that features the aberrant yet prolific writer Samantha Marlow. It's a concept book told from Marlow's perspective- which often varies between what is actually happening and what she is imagining in her head. Her interaction with the world is uniquely complex and often as much of an upper hand as it is a downfall as she sways between certifiably insane and absolute genius.
