title: The Maze (FBI Thriller)
author:  Catherine Coulter 
description: Full of karate, pistol-whipping, and other malevolent mayhem, Catherine Coulter's <i>The Maze</i> could be described as a junior-varsity version of <i>Silence of the Lambs</i>. As in that novel, the heroine in <i>The Maze</i>, Lacey Sherlock, becomes an FBI agent to help unravel the mysteries of her own past. Seven years after her sister was brutally slain by a serial killer (the wonderfully creepy "String Killer"), Lacey is assigned to the FBI's Criminal Apprehension Unit (CAU). The CAU, headed by brawny bureau egghead Dillon Savich, uses computer modeling to catch the baddest guys around--it's like profiling, but with databases. Before you know it, Dillon and Lacey are tangling with the String Killer. Even when the scenarios are not terribly inventive--"Let's use Lacey as bait! What a great idea!"--Coulter makes sure that her bad guys are good and twisted. A touch of bloody-mindedness can cover up a multitude of sins, and on that score, <i>The Maze</i> satisfies.
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  ALSO BY CATHERINE COULTER
  
  
  
  
  
  THE FBI THRILLERS
  
  
  
  
  
  _Bombshell_ (2013)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Backfire_ (2012)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Split Second_ (2011)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Twice Dead: Riptide_ and _Hemlock Bay_ (2011)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Whiplash_ (2010)
  
  
  
  
  
  _KnockOut_ (2009)
  
  
  
  
  
  _TailSpin_ (2008)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Double Jeopardy: The Target_ and _The Edge_ (2008)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Double Take_ (2007)
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Beginning: The Cove_ and _The Maze_ (2005)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Point Blank_ (2005)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Blowout_ (2004)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Blindside_ (2003)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Eleventh Hour_ (2002)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Hemlock Bay_ (2001)
  
  
  
  
  
  _Riptide_ (2000)
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Edge_ (1999)
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Target_ (1998)
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Maze_ (1997)
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Cove_ (1996)
  
  
  
  
  
  A BRIT IN THE FBI THRILLERS (with J. T. Ellison)
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Final Cut_ (2013)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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