(Books)Criminal Minds 'Series' Based off the 'Hit' TV Series

[Ivy]

Criminal Minds: Jump Cut - Released in 2007 by Author Max Allan Collins
The BAU team is dispatched to Lawrence, Kansas, to investigate a series of fatal stabbings among the town's homeless population. The victims have all been found freshly bathed, neatly groomed, and wearing new clothes. To profiler Jason Gideon, these look like carefully staged murders in isolated settings, fulfilling the sick fantasies of one or more Unknown Subjects.
When the kidnapping of a young heiress presents a second, seemingly unrelated crime for the BAU to help solve, Gideon deduces a sinister connection, despite the variance in MOs. The kidnap victim must be found—before she too is a player in the mind games of a pair of UnSubs who are inventing horrific new ways to kill.

Criminal Minds: Killer Profile Released in 2008 by Author Max Allan Collins
The BAU team is called in to help Chicago detectives investigate a series of bizarre murders: a couple shot to death in a parked car; two women strangled in a public park; and a young man's decomposed body stuffed in a plastic barrel. Though equally violent and disturbing, the crimes seem unrelated—until profiler David Rossi makes the connection.
Rossi recognizes each grisly tableau, murders modeled on the crime scenes of three of the country's most notorious serial killers: the Son of Sam, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey Dahmer. Someone is taking the cult of true crime to terrifying extremes...and since there are so many killers left to emulate, Rossi wonders how he can possibly profile a killer who's hiding within the killer profiles of others.

Criminal Minds: Finishing School - Released in 2008 by Author Max Allan Collins
The bodies of three young girls are discovered in the woods of Bemidji, Minnesota, the result of barbiturate poisoning. Unable to identify the victims, the local police turn to the Behavioral Analysis Unit. Profiler David Rossi learns that the girls disappeared more than ten years ago from Georgia. Further investigation reveals that the perpetrators have been involved in a cycle of kidnapping and murder for close to twenty years—and are about to start again...


Review:
I am a huge Collins' fan, I usually only read his books "CSI" also based off a 'Hit' Tv Series, however, when I was glancing at his section in Barnes and Noble, I noticed "Killer Profile". When I read the description that it was based on FBI Agents who track the deadliest and scariest Serial Killers in the United States, I couldn't put the book down. And then when I saw that the storyline was a Serial Killer who was copying other Serial Killers' methods of torture and murder, I couldn't stop reading. I didn't put the book down until I finished the last word, in the last sentence, on the last page, of the last chapter or the book. I immediately went back to Barnes and Noble and bought, 'Jump Cut', aswell, and yes I read them out of order, but it doesn't matter. You could read the newest release, 'Finishing School', then go in reverese to , 'Jump Cut and Killer Profile'. Mix them up, just pick one, you'll understand everything, every character and their position at the BAU, and you won't be disappointed. After reading the first two books, the third wasn't out yet, I found out through Bestbuy.com that there were two seasons out on dvd. I bought both seasons, and it took me a little while to get used to the characters I was seeing on screen, because what I visualized in the books weren't exactly what was being portrayed. But never-the-less, I was disappointed by Collins' because he upheld the TV Series, and I wasn't disappointed by the TV Series because they have great plots and the individuality of the characters is excentelly portrayed and acted. A+++ to both!!!

[Slim Zaddy]

your review is sick ,, i'm lookin up to read these books , just cuz of your review . pretty good job

[Ivy]

your review is sick ,, i'm lookin up to read these books , just cuz of your review . pretty good job

Thanks, you can tell when I'm really interested in something because I take extra time to make it 'the shit'

[Sophie]

I'm definitely gonna look up these books, like z_em, your review made me wanna read them, especially 'Killer Profile'. I'll definitely check that out