Body Count

"...solid, well-researched debut...the intense first-person narration has enough twists and turns to keep forensics fans turning the pages." Publishers Weekly

"...A taut and terrific debut novel...Martin is a real find. Can't wait for her next." Australian Women's Weekly

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Body Count provides an insight into the life of a unique FBI profiler, Sophie Anderson.

When a girl is found brutally murdered in DC, Australian FBI profiler Sophie Anderson suspects that the killing spree has just begun. With her fellow agents she delves into the mind of the killer, trying to predict his next move.

When another victim turns up, Sophie knows that she’s ‘seen’ the girl before, raped and murdered – in her dreams. Struggling to separate fact from fiction, reality from nightmare, Sophie becomes more and more ensnared in the killer’s mind as the body count rises.

Then the murders become personal and Sophie is caught up in a cat-and-mouse game that may cost her the man she loves – and her life.

History of Body Count
Body Count has got quite an eerie and interesting beginning.

The idea is based on a particularly nasty nightmare Phillipa had about eight years ago. In the dream a serial killer murdered her friends one by one and she was investigating the crimes. During the dream she woke up immediately after each body was discovered, but then when she went back to sleep the dream continued exactly where she’d left off. Between 2am and 6am she woke up four times in total. And when she woke up the last time she was cornered by the killer. Later that day Phillipa would make a tragic discovery…she got a phone call at work to say that one of her friends had died. The estimated time of death was between 2am and 6am, the exact time of the nightmare. Intuition?