Claire Waters is a dedicated forensic psychiatrist with unnervingly personal insights into the criminal mind. Haunted by a disturbing childhood incident, Claire has always been drawn to those rare untreatable patients who seem to have no conscience or fear. But one shocking case could make or break her careerand its waiting for her in the psychiatric wing of New York Citys Rikers Island. Quimby is a deranged inmate whose boyish good looks hide a sordid history of dysfunction and abuse, and he triggers something in Claire shed rather not face. As she tries to unlock Quimbys past, she leaves herself dangerously vulnerable. When the case propels her into the mind of another killera homicidal maniac whos watching her every moveit could only end in madness, or murder, or both Brilliantly constructed and breathtakingly suspenseful, Kill Switch is a masterful combination of murder, mystery, and modern forensics and a stunning debut from a spectacular writing team.