The Perfect Appearance (A Jessie Hunt Psychological Suspense Thriller—Book Twenty-Nine) by Blake Pierce

they had of the killer matched that of a tall, blond, gangly guy with glasses in his early twenties who had attacked Hannah a few weeks ago at the Santa Monica Pier. It just so happened that on that same night, the Clone Killer also murdered his latest victim less than a mile from the attack. Something had clicked for Jessie, who recalled that last fall, after giving a seminar on criminal profiling at UCLA, she’d been approached by a tall, gangly guy with blond hair and glasses. She and her best friend, Kat Gentry, who’d been walking with her, had pulled guns on the guy when he reached for something in his backpack. It turned out to only be a newspaper he claimed to want autographed, but it was clear that he was an extremely devoted fanboy. She vaguely remembered him saying that his name was Mark or Mike or something similar. When the HSS research department pulled up student photos of everyone with those names who attended the university last fall, both she and Kat pointed out the same guy, who Hannah also identified as her attacker at the pier. His name was Mark Haddonfield, and he was a junior at UCLA. It all made sense in light of the totems he’d left at each murder scene including: a red apple, a pencil, a notepad, and most recently, a highlighter. They were all school-related items. He had mentioned that he hoped to take her seminar. This must have been his sick way of expressing his resentment at not getting in. Once Haddonfield was identified, HSS detectives went stra