Sunday Suspense: The Killing Hour by Lisa Gardner

 

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,

   

  The Killing Hour is written by Lisa Gardner and is the fourth book in her best-selling FBI Profiler series. It is published by Bantam Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. In it, we are introduced to a young Kimberly Quincy in her final weeks of training at the FBI Academy in Virginia. Haunted by the murders of her mother and sister, she has become an island unto herself.  As Kimberly wades through the haze of exhaustion she stumbles (literally) upon the dead body of a young woman on the grounds of the FBI Academy.

   Special Agent Mac McCormack asks Kimberly in aiding him in gathering evidence. The clues begin to confirm that this is indeed the murderer from McCormack's previous cases. This killer kidnaps pairs of women, with the first body left as a clue to find his second victim. If they look at the clues he leaves they may be able to save the second victim. Also in the mix are Pierce Quincy and Rainie Conner who have been hired as consultants to profile the killer. But a new variable enters the case that careens the quartet into unspeakable danger. 

  The Killing Hour was as twisty and crazy as any of Gardner's mysteries. Gardner's also had the ability to pause the case and focus on the needs of her protagonists. This made for some excellent dramatic moments. She drove the narrative ahead with a sea of red herrings to really bring out the sleuth in me. I was given a front-row seat in a diabolical killer's game of cat and mouse. The explosive finale was sharp and filled with peril that put our protagonists in a serious predicament. 

  I read the Killing Hour with the excellent narration of Anna Fields. Her handling of all voices in this story was an added bonus to the audiobook. She read with intensity and flourish which made her presentation of Lisa Gardner's words heightened and exciting. I am always in favor of a voice-over actor that can portray a character rather than just read them. Excellent work.

  In the end, this four-star read took me away and transported me to another fantastic mystery with a lot of danger and adventure. Curl up with this one on a cold night. I did. And I finished it in a day. This is one story that does not disappoint.   

  

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