Emma isn’t sure about the FBI’s offer. If she becomes part of a brand new unit of their Behavioral Science Team, she will be paid for her services, given money for her college studies, and if interested offered a place on their program after she has finished college.

Emma is smart, at the top of her class, and has the right academic background. She’s also a teenager which suits the FBI’s new unit. She will be required to interview teen serial killers in prison and provide her findings back to this agent (Special Agent Edmund Cooper). The key reason she’s been chosen however, is she herself survived a serial killer’s capture.

The new ‘unit’ soon reveals itself as only Emma and another teen Travis Bell. He too is a survivor of a serial killer, and wants to work for the FBI when older. Their first interview with a prisoner goes well. As hoped, the teen prisoner is much more open with their FBI questionnaire than with older FBI agents.

Emma and Travis are soon told they are needed for an on-going, live investigation. They are both keen to work on something other than the ‘cold’ cases of already imprisoned inmates, but are far from prepared what they are in for.

Their next interview is with a serial killer dubbed ‘The Artist’, from the way his victim’s bodies were found in certain poses, rigged with wire. He’s proud of his ‘works’, with a brilliant mind, but like them – still just a teen. As bodies begin to be discovered in rubbish dumps, they know it can’t be The Artist, but does he have a connection to these ongoing murders?

Up against FBI bosses, and only Special Agent Cooper in their corner, Emma and Travis put their minds together on their task. Catch the new serial killer out there. The new murderer is called ‘The Butcher’, by the way he hangs his victims. He is strong, clever and as ruthless as ‘The Artist’ – or is he?

A showdown is brewing between them and Emma and Travis don’t realise they are going to be smack-centre in the middle.

Set in the early 1980’s, the police work is brilliantly portrayed without the help of modern technology. Both Emma and Travis are still dealing with their own inner demons through traumatic events in their immediate past. Sharing this, a determination to catch the FBI’s latest killer, and also support Special Agent Cooper’s belief in them, these teens refuse to give up.

Although their work together brings them closer, there is no romance, which is refreshing and authentic.

None Shall Sleep just has to be compared to Silence of the Lambs, due to a lone female ‘agent’ character interviewing a serial killer in his cell – but in a good way. This novel has been well researched, with multi strands to the plot, different viewpoints shared with the reader and an explosive ending to grip you to the final page.

A chilling, psychological crossover thriller for teens which will certainly be enjoyed by adult readers too.

Author – Ellie Marney

Age – 14+

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(Crime, Thriller, Murder, Violence, Violent, Trust, Manipulation, Inner Fears, Grief, Investigation, Police, FBI, Determination, Murderer, Chase, Thrilling, Psychological)