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Red 1-2-3
Red 123
Author: John Katzenbach
ISBN-13: 9780802122988
ISBN-10: 0802122981
Publication Date: 1/13/2015
Pages: 384
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Publisher: Mysterious Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Red 1 - Dr. Karen Jayson is an internist

Red 2 - Sarah Locksley is a former school teacher. She lost her husband and young daughter in an auto accident. Every day is a day of grieving for her.

Red 3 - Jordan Ellis is a college student. Having a lot of difficulty dealing with her parents' divorce. She's acting out and failing all her classes.

What do these women have in common? For one, they are all redheads. For another, they are all being stalked by the same man and have received letters from "BBW" stating he is going to kill them. They have all been selected randomly --- or have they?

The BigBadWolf is how he thinks of himself. He is an older man, an author of murder mysteries from several years past. He feels forgotten, abandoned. He wants to leave this world after committing the perfect murder. Kill the three redheads hours apart on the same day, while writing a "fictional" book describing what it's like to be a killer.

This is a quiet romp through a madman's mind as he plots and stalks and plans multiple murders. But the action picks up in leaps and bounds when the Reds meet and do some planning of their own.

It's not listed as such, but I regard this one as a psychological thriller. The book is very well written. The characters are fascinating, as they are all so flawed, so incomplete, and how they deal with this situation changes all of their lives.