“Don’t do it… please!”

Three gunshots came as a response to her plea. The bullets lodged high in her thighs. The woman stumbled and leaned back, collapsing against the car door. Her hands rose uncertainly, as if trying to protect her body from what she understood would follow. The man moved in a little closer. He pulled the trigger again. Two more shots low, in the stomach. Persephone slowly slid down and fell backward onto the road. The man approached even further. The seconds until the next shots crawled by like bored turtles. Two more bullets, in the chest. He remained staring at her motionless. A few more seconds passed. He leaned over her. He almost pressed the gun to her forehead. One last bullet. Close range.

A disturbed killer roams the streets of Athens at night, satisfying his murderous instinct, leaving corpses in his wake and challenging the police to stop him…

The Killer's Pattern is a brutal crime novel, the first in Greek crime literature that describes the story of a serial killer and his confrontation by the team of the Homicide Division led by Inspector Trypi, using profiling theory developed by the pioneers of the genre, legendary FBI researchers Robert Ressler and John Douglas.