"Running Blind"   by  Lee Child
A Jack Reacher Mystery

2011 Book Review #33

Booklist Review

Jack Reacher fits the profile of a serial killer being tracked by the FBI. Plus, he's connected to the victims, all of whom filed sexual harassment cases against the military. (Jack was the military policeman who investigated the women's cases.) 

The Feds don't think Jack did it, but they force him to help them find out who did. 

The crime scenes are elaborately bizarre yet bereft of clues. Reacher, skeptical of the official profile portraying the killer as a resentful anti-feminist, looks for other possible motives. One of them hits pay dirt, sending Jack on a deadly cross-country race with the killer. 

This fourth Reacher thriller is easily the best. The plot is a masterpiece of misdirection, red herrings, and veiled motives. Reacher himself is an evolving, ever more likable moralist who sometimes gives in to his inner thug. He belongs at the same table with the genre's leading tough-tender sleuths: Parker's Spenser and Burke's Robicheaux among them. 

My Thoughts:  Child is another one of my favorite authors and the Reacher stories just get better and better.  There is a surprise ending and I love those!