Father

Dark, disturbing and compelling, with a hard literary edge and set in an almost futuristic, dystopian Glasgow, The Father is the first in a three book crime thriller series by critically acclaimed author Tom O. Keenan which introduces the character of troubled forensic profiler Sean Rooney and the 'tragic flaw' of psychosleuth Rooney's vulnerabilities and needs verses his desires and predilections to perpetrate the kind of harm (murder) which draw him to those who readily and comfortably carry it out. Mental issues (he has an inner voice which he communicates with), alcohol abuse, and the tedium of pursuing psychopathic killers, leave Sean Rooney a pathetic man, a failed forensic profiler, a bit of a loser and definitely retired. DCI Jacqueline Kaminski has other ideas. Faced with a multiple murder - and some headless corpses - she needs psychosleuth Rooney back on the case.