Charactor+Analysis

Patrick Bowers: Patrick Bowers is an increasingly intelligent detective, who uses geographic profiling in his work, but looks down on profilers. His wife just died and now he is left with his step daughter Tessa. He tries to be a loving and understanding father to Tessa but it is very hard since she can be moody and difficult at times. Throughout the story he grows closer to her and learns how to be a good father.

Tessa Bowers: Tessa is a shy girl of seventeen. Right now she is going through a lot of stress because of her mothers death and because of it has started cutting. She wants to trust her father but doesn't know him very well and doesn't like him very much in the first place. Even through this she is always insistent to come to crime scenes with Pat, which is slightly ironic because she hates the sight of dead things. Through the progression of the story she becomes more understanding towards her fathers work and how it will effect her life, but still needs time to get used to it.

Lien-Hua Jiang: Lien-Hua is a profiler for the FBI. Because of this there is a little tension between her and pat at work. She is a generally quiet person and takes her work very seriously. In the beginning of the story she thought that she was very different from the people she brings in, but in the end she learns that we really all have the potential and in a way, desire to do evil.