Over Your Dead Body

John and Brooke travel the Midwest without any support, hitchhiking from one town to the next. Their target is the last of the Withered, a group of killers who are now tracking them in return. The FBI is also closing in on the pair.

Each new town, truck stop and highway brings them nearer to a vicious killer. This one ignores every rule of profiling and prediction that John has learned to rely on, so his usual methods give him little to work with.

Brooke is in worse shape than the road ahead. Hundreds of thousands of dead personalities share her mind, and the weight of them leaves her psyche close to collapse. She drifts in and out of lucidity, and every day she produces new names, thoughts and memories.

Then a personality surfaces that John never expected and has no idea how to handle. The book is the fifth in the John Wayne Cleaver series, which begins with I Am Not a Serial Killer. It reads as a road story with a hunt at its centre, and the pressure comes from two sides at once: pursuers behind the pair and a mind coming apart beside John.