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The Shoe Man was able to escape detection over a decade ago by having an awareness of police and forensic techniques. Detective Superintendent Roy Grace, who worked the original case, is almost certain that he has returned and is repeating his crimes. We are given more than one viable suspect, each with a skill or occupation that allows them access to a steady stream of potential victims. DS Grace and his team sift through the new evidence, bring in technology that wasn't available 12 years ago and try to stop the perpetrator before another woman is victimized.

This was a tight, well written story that offered a textbook on police procedure and a disturbing look at a rare but devastating crime. There are some things that you will have read in other books in this genre-psychological profiling, nature v.s. nurture, a criminal who is sure that he is much more intelligent than the police, and certainly more so than his victims, and the need for some plain luck in solving the crime.

The author found a clever way for the Shoe Man to dispose of evidence of a victim in 1998. He also demonstrates some of the inherent dangers of excessive use of social media and the pervasiveness of official surveillance in our every day lives.