Opening Moves: The Bowers Files by Steven James

About the Book:  

In The Bowers Files novels, FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers has stopped some of the most vicious serial killers ever imagined. Now, in the fifth exciting installment, author Steven James takes readers back to Bowers’s terrifying beginning.

Milwaukee, 1997. In a city reeling from the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, a series of gruesome kidnappings and mutilations draw authorities into a case like nothing they’ve ever seen. Cops think a Dahmer copycat is on the loose.

But Patrick Bowers, working as a homicide detective, suspects this is more than an ode to the infamous cannibal. When he discovers that the shocking acts reference some of the most notorious and macabre killers in our nation’s history, the investigation spirals into a nightmare of manipulation, brutality, and terror.

Wielding groundbreaking investigative techniques, Bowers must now face off with a killer who will stop at nothing to get his message out to the world. Chilling, gritty, and packed with twists and turns, Opening Moves is Steven James’s most heart-pounding novel yet.

My Review: 

I have read so many books by Steven James and was super excited to read this prequel! The story is masterfully told and holds the reader's interest as all of his books do. The reading was a bit hard though as the first half of the story was a bit to grim and gruesome for me. That being said though I really liked reading the background of Patrick Bowers before he starts working with the FBI. Overall, it is a great read, just a big gruesome in parts. Also, while minimal, there were a few places where a word or phrase was used that I didn't like.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars