The Killing Hour
by Lisa Gardner
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Author: Lisa GardnerEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09-28
ISBN: 0553584529
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Bantam
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- Great Thriller. A must read!
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Book Review: "The Killing Hour"... a chilling, entrancing read!!!
Summary: 4 Stars
"The Killing Hour," by Lisa Gardner, NY, Bantam, 2004 ISBN 0-553-58452-9 (pbk), 431 pg.
This a chilling suspense novel entwining lives of FBI trainee Kimberly Quincy & Georgia Police Agent Michael McCormack -- each has a personal agenda but combine forces to aid solving multiple paired serial abductions & subsquent painful deaths of young girls whose bodies are later discovered in desolate Georgia & Virginia outback's.
The murderer, dubbed "Eco-Killer", submits short cryptic 'Dear Editor' notes to local papers & kills the 1st of each victim pair but leaves clues to placement of the 2nd victims in remote locations where local flora, fauna & domain makes passage & escape treacherous. So yes, there's urgency in deciphering clues & locating the 2nd victim before her grisly death. Provocative use is made of many forensic specialists.
We are inundated by Gardner's minutely detailed guesome & macabre autopsy findings, of abused both living & dead bodies by unsavory fauna of flies, maggots, crawling creatures, acids, mud & we experience insufferable heat felt by search party members & victims. We learn of survival & search/rescue techniques used to overcome hostile milieu that tests the strength & fragility of the human condition. A double whammy "Hitchcockian" ending is satisfying & muses "Why Do Murderers Murder?"
The author's alternation of passages between murderer, his quarry & the "good guys" (Kimberly, Mac, et al) is sorta choppy like Huxley's "Point Counterpoint" -- & p. 145 commentary "...to find oxygen in air that was 90 percent water" over-reaches. But, Gardner's command of technical, romatic, & fictional facts made this an entrancing & chilling macabre read. I do recommend!
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