The Killing Hour

An article in Libby Life praised this, esp. for the setting.
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Shudder. Yeah, there's a reason I don't read thrillers. I did finish this page turner in one night, and I didn't have nightmares, but still. Unrealistic... the stamina of the heroes and the romance got less and less plausible as it went on, and then the ending was, to me, "oh, really? huh," iow a letdown because less interesting than the investment led me to believe it would be.

Otoh, I do see the appeal for readers who are into the genre. In fact, I'm going to suggest it to my husband before I return it to the library.

Btw, no need at all to read the first three in the series. Though it does help to have some knowledge of the infrastructure of the genre. For example it took show more me the longest time to figure out that ME is Medical Examiner. show less

This one will definitely stay with me for a while.

Skip the next paragraph if you don’t want to read the One-line SPOILER ALERT:

I read a lot. Not many books give me a real WTH moment. The Killing Hour gave me one of those moments, okay, maybe a couple of those. I mean really, a live snake sewed into a corpse? Freaking genius.

The Killing Hour is chalk full of twists, suspense, and crazy What the Hell moments. The story follows Kimberly, a troubled woman with a debilitating past, midway through her FBI training when she stumbles upon the body of a dead woman just off the training course at Quantico. TheEco-Killer has struck again.

The Eco-Killer, a serial murderer whose M.O. is kidnapping young women in pairs who are out on the town, show more kills one immediately with clues to the whereabouts of the other, leaving the second woman in what is described as a “B-rated horror movie” setting, to see if she can (1) find her way out, or (2) be found before she succumbs to the elements.

As Kimberly and her by-chance partner, Mac, race the clock using the clues left by the killer to save one young woman, they come upon horrendous discoveries and face treacherous landscapes.

The Killing Hour moves so fast you won’t even know you are through reading it. An un-put-downable book if ever there was one.

Well done, Lisa Gardner. show less

Given to me as a Christmas gift by grandson, I started and could not put it down. Lisa Gardner is one of my favorite authors and writes several characters, both main and side characters that pique my interest and I want to learn more about. I already have some of her books, both in the Kimberly Quincy and Quincy and Rainie series and this book features all of them, parents and daughter. It gives a glimpse into pre-FBI profiler Kimberly and more about her family history, along with the mystery de jour. I was drawn in from the prologue. It was that good. I really need to get the whole series. While I did guess or half guess a couple of the points, there were still some twists I didn't see and it's well worth a read. I highly recommend. show more LOVE HER. Love the book. More please. show less

We meet Pierce Quincy whose specialty is profiling...and Rainie Connor, who are partners in a private investigating firm that the police have called in to help. The police are beginning to believe that there may be an inside implication. Not only that but this killer leaves clues on the body that points to the next victim. It's an interesting plot and a fantastic story but it did become bogged down with too many characters causing the reader to sometimes have to go back to see how that person fit into the storyline. I was slightly disappointed with the killers motive but that didn't distract from an otherwise well written and compelling adventure.

Let me just say that once you start you won’t want to stop until you have reached the blazing conclusion. Great plotting with plenty of twists and turns make this one a great book to read.

Hot summers are deadly as victims discover. A killer takes two victims, leaving the first with clues on how to find the second. Special Agent Mac McCormack has been tracking the killer for a number of years. Kimberly Quincy is a rookie FBI agent living in the shadows of her famous father, FBI profiler Pierce Quincy. When Kimberly stumbles over a victim left on the property of Quantico, she is compelled to help find the killer. Herself a survivor of an attack that left her sister and mother dead, Kimberly feels a need to prove she can save someone. This is not the normal nail biting, grisley murders I am used to reading from Lisa Gardner. It seems more of a romantic suspense but the action is tense and page-turning, especially since this show more time the killer took four victims. This book is from 2003. show less

A solid thriller by Gardner with her signature grusome crimes and detailed character development. The romance between the two protagonists was unexpected and nice.