A Burning Obsession

Abby Mullen Thrillers, Book 3

By: Mike Omer

Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky, Fajer Al-Kaisi

In this conclusion of the Abby Mullen Thrillers by the New York Times bestselling author of A Killer’s Mind, a hostage negotiator has one last chance to stop a deadly threat from her past.

When a series of suspicious fires leaves multiple victims dead in their homes, NYPD hostage negotiator Abby Mullen knows in her bones that the terrors of her childhood have returned. As a young girl, she narrowly escaped a fire set by Moses Wilcox, a fanatical cult leader who’s been presumed dead for thirty years. These murders have his fingerprints all over them.

Meanwhile, razor-sharp criminal profiler Zoe Bentley is investigating the arsons—but she’s never seen an offender like this. Zoe needs insight from someone who understands the mind of a cult leader. Someone like Abby Mullen.

As the unlikely duo teams up on the case, it’s time for Abby to face the memories she’s always wanted to forget: the cult that defined her childhood, the fire that killed her family, and the man who engineered it all. The race is on to catch a killer—even if it means braving the fiery wreckage of Abby’s past.

©2022 Mike Omer (P)2022 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

“Omer adds heat to the familiar plot of police pursuing a mad man. This one’s an obvious candidate for film adaptation.”—Publishers Weekly

Well structured, good characters

I like the emotional aspects of the story and the characters supported it well. Plot was interesting.

Another great one in the series

This was a great story! It pulled me in from beginning to end and I loved that we finally get to see a Abby tracking down Moses Wilcox and getting the chance to take him down. She is putting her knowledge to good use and keeps popping up for Zoe Bentley, the FBI profiler. (Loved seeing Zoe again.) Once they started really working together it was great watching them team up. They worked well together and started to really put the pieces together to start getting closer and closer to Wilcox. This story was well written with plenty of twists and turns throughout that switch things up keeps reader engaged and guessing even knowing certain things. I loved this and would be thrilled to read more books starring Abby Mullen.

Great series…

I have really enjoyed this series. They conveyed how a cult gets its followers. Scary stuff!

Another great installment!

I really enjoyed this book! It's so satisfying to see all the lined come together and make sense out if chaos. Great story line and the narration was on point as usual for these two.

I personally like it.

I wouldn’t consider myself like a heavy reader. I listen to books at night to help me fall asleep. A couple of times throughout this book I found myself a little stuck on this book and couldn’t fall asleep. I liked how long of a book this was. (I listen to about 1-2 hours a night) so books that make the credit worth it til my next one is always a plus.
I liked the story