Book Review: Face of Madness

Zoe Prime is an FBI agent with a difference. She suffers from a rare condition called synesthesia, which also gives her a unique talent — the ability to view the world through a lens of numbers. Like Rory Moore, she's a fascinating character tormented by her own inner demons, but when a series of murders strike a small town in Nebraska, she is pushed beyond the breaking point with grave consequences. Face of Madness is certainly an easy read, and as a whodunnit, it bears familiar genre trappings that surrounds its interesting protagonist with a generic jumble of kills and spills that produces no genuine thrills. A half-baked attempt in what could have been a better character study and a promising thriller.