An Evil Mind is the sixth book in the Robert Hunter series by Chris Carter. Robert Hunter is a Los Angeles police detective assigned to the Ultra Violent Crime Unit of the homicide division. Hunter was a child prodigy who attended Stanford at 16 and received his PhD in psychology and criminal behavior by 22. His thesis on criminal behavior is required reading at Quantico.Early in the morning at a small truck stop in Wyoming, a group of customers, including the local sheriff and his deputy, are enjoying breakfast. In a freak series of events, an out-of-control truck careens toward the diner but changes direction at the last moment after hitting a large pothole. After clipping a car in the parking lot, the truck comes to rest against one of the outbuildings of the truck stop. As the patrons rush out to assist the driver, the deputy notices a grisly scene in the sprung trunk of the car that was hit.
The driver of the car is taken into custody by the FBI due to the nature of the find and the assumed identity of the suspect. After three days of silence during interrogation, the FBI is forced to asked for outside help and brings in Robert Hunter to conduct the interviews. What Hunter finds out opens the door to years of unsolved cases of missing persons and homicides. Has a killer been operating under the radar for years, without the FBI aware that he even existed?
This book was different from the prior five in the series. While the murders were just as gruesome and the killer just as sadistic and elusive, the focus of the plot was the interview process with the suspect and the murders seemed to be secondary. Through these interviews we learned more of Hunter’s past – something that has been hidden until now – and were not continually rushing from one crime scene to another. This was my favorite book in the series so far.
Rating: 4.5 stars
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