Thursday Thrillers: The Bone Farm by Dean Koontz

 

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,

   Crime thrillers have always been a favorite genre of mine. I love to pick up suspenseful novels and settle into the experience. While I was searching for a new book to add to my reading in 2019, I noticed that Dean Koontz was featuring a short work with his character Jane Hawk for free on audiobook. I could not resist. It was the beginning of a reading obsession as I began the Jane Hawk series. 

  The Bone Farm is written by Dean Koontz, and acts as a prelude to his Jane Hawk series of books. It is presented on audiobook by Brilliance Audio and is read by Elisabeth Rodgers and James Anderson Foster. In it, we go back in time two years to Jane Hawk's earlier days in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She and her partner, Gary Burkett, are on the trail of a serial killer known as the Mother Hater. With each abduction of women the Mother Hater sends photos of the kidnapped girls to their mothers in various stages of life and then finally death. Twenty-one women were taken and murdered. Now a new victim, missing for six days, is in a race against time to save her life.

  The two FBI agents, having interviewed the family of the latest kidnapped girl, Katherine Haskell, are en route to the Gossage Farm in rural Pennsylvania. Their latest interview is with Mercer Gossage, Haskell's relative and former politician. But what seems as a routine interview is anything but. Because Jane and her partner know that they are possibly entering the home of a serial killer.

  The Bone Farm was a rip-roaring ride of adrenaline and suspense that left me wanting more of Jane Hawk. Koontz has definitely solidified himself in the genre of crime fiction with his Jane Hawk series. As the story unfolded and I was led to believe one thing, Koontz quietly turned the tables and had me facing a truth that was chilling. Hawk is a clever and formidable heroine who is one step ahead of her adversaries. I marveled at her survival as she realized who the Mother Hater was. And by the surprising finale, I was ready to start the first novel in the series, the Silent Corner.

  Elisabeth Rodgers and James Anderson Foster handled their parts very well as they presented the narrative with flawless precision. Rodgers goes on to read the entire Jane Hawk series, which made her reading of Jane's part of the book very fitting. Excellent performances.

  I gave The Bone Farm five stars. It is a jolting and furious-paced thriller that left me exhausted by the end. I cannot wait to delve into the remaining books in the Jane Hawk series. If you like short novels that deliver a huge payoff at the end, this one is for you.  

  

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