1. Based on what you learned about behavioral analysis (profiling), do you feel it is a valuable law enforcement tool for helping to catch serial offenders?

2. Were you emotionally engaged in the characters --- did you care what happened to Vail? To Jonathan? To Robby and Bledsoe?

3. What was your favorite scene?

4. Describe your feelings about the scene in which Vail confronts her biological mother, Senator Eleanor Linwood, about her past.

5. Is Vail's reaction appropriate and reasonable when she discovers her gun is missing after leaving Deacon's house? What about when Vail goes to Deacon's to pick up Jonathan's book?

6. Did you like Karen Vail as a character, and would you like to read another novel featuring Karen Vail?

7. Why do you think the author chose to make Karen Vail a victim of abuse?

8. What did that tell us about her character in terms of how she deals with other events that happen in the story?

9. Did the killer's diary entries, written in the first person, put you closer to him?

10. The film rights to The 7th Victim have been optioned by a major Hollywood producer. What actors/actresses would you cast for the main characters in the movie --- Vail; Robby; Bledsoe?