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Summary: Another Page Turning Thriller By Ms. Gardner!!
Review: Ms. Gardner has penned yet again another fast-paced, edge or your seat thriller that you will be hard pressed to put down until you've managed to read the final page. Ms. Gardner manages to maintain the momentum in her latest thriller as well as keep you guessing who the deranged serial killer is until the final chapter. Ms. Gardner brings back Special Agent Pierce Quincy, sassy, Rainie and Pierce's daughter Kim in her latest book. Kim is now on her way to being the FBI agent she always wanted to be. Problem is she is driven to be a super agent for all the wrong reason. She can't get past the fact that she blames herself for the death of her mother and sister at that hands of a man that she trusted and brought home to the family. On top of that her relationship with her father is strained at best. She keeps everyone at arms length and it's starting to effect her performance during her training. Then one day she makes a gruesome discovery. She finds a body on the FBI grounds during a PT run. This opens a whole new can of worms and she is drawn into investigating this crime with another law enforcement officer Micheal Mac McCormack together they will track down a sick killer and hopefully save the day for his young victim. Mac has been tracking a killer for many years. He killed for awhile during a summer heat wave and then just dropped off the face of the earth. He knows the killer is still out there and goes to Quantico and FBI headquaters to get some much needed help. It seems the killer is getting ready to kill again. Someone has been calling him and playing riddle word games with him and he is not about to lose this game and another innocent victim. Can Mac and Kim figure out his clues in time to save the next victim? This is a well crafted book. The fact that Ms. Gardner brings back old characters from past books only addes to the characterization of the story. This is very much Kim's story and her father plays only a small part but it's fun to see Pierce again. I highly recommend this book and this author as well if your interested in edge of your seat, keep you guessing books. This will make a perfect addition to your Summer reading list.
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Summary: Fast-paced Action
Review: New Agent, Kimberly Quincy, is fighting her demons at the FBI academy with a grueling training regimen. Her mother and sister were killed six years earlier by someone close to her. She has not yet come to terms with it. Her relationship with her father, (former FBI profiler Pierce Quincy from earlier novels) is strained. She has something to prove to herself and to her father. She gets her chance when she stumbles upon a body at a FBI training trail. She takes a leave of absence from the Academy, hooks up with Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent "Mac" MacCormick. Mac had been involved in a Georgia serial killing investigation three years earlier and the trail led him to FBI headquarters in Virginia. Now three new woman are abducted and it a race against the clock to find them before they die. From the beginning of the novel, the reader is drawn into the characters' lives. They are extraordinarily well defined. This is a fast-paced, page-turning, can't put it down kind of a book. A lot happens in a little over 300 pages. Not to say everything was perfect. Clichés do abound, crimes are solved a little too quickly once everyone stops floundering around, and I for one cannot believe a cell phone will work in the middle of a desolate swamp. Despite a few minor problems, I found this to be a totally engaging , heart-pounding book. Besides Kimberly, some characters from previous novels play a secondary role in THE KILLING HOUR. Lisa Gardner does a fine job tying her novels together by highlighting a different character each time, Rainie Conner in THE THIRD VICTIM, Pierce Quincy in THE NEXT ACCIDENT, and Kimberly Quincy in THE KILLING HOUR. The books feel both familiar and original at the same time. Highly Recommended
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Summary: Keeps you coming back for more!
Review: Now this is what I call a great read. The plot has been described before, however, no reviewer can do it justice (including myself). I found myself unable to put the book down and had it finished within 2 days. I've never read any of her other books so this was my first introduction to these characters. That being said, it was easy to follow and feel the angst of past experiences for the characters. Overall, this is a great book that you can't go wrong with if you like the thriller/suspense genre.
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Summary: Entertaining, but sort of Nancy Drewish
Review: On top of being entertaining, this book was geographically informative (places of interest in Virginia), which puts it above most other novels. The tone, however, was a bit more adolescent, and even goody-goody, than I would have liked. Maybe that is just the way Gardner is. It beats gratuitous bad taste, but it seemed a bit out of place, considering the subject matter--serial killer, FBI, etc. All in all, I'll pick her up again, but I might put her down if the tone bugs me.
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Summary: You won't be able to stop reading!
Review: One of the most griping books I have read lately. New agent Kimberly Quincy tries to catch a killer that kidnaps young women in pairs and kills one immediately leaving clues at the site to find the second one. This is an extremely fast-paced book with several twists and turns, well-depicted characters and an awesome storyline. this one you cannot miss!
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Summary: A great suspense that will hook you...
Review: Returning to the world of the Quincy's, we are reunited with Kimberley Quincy six years after her mother and sister were murdered by a pyscopath. Getting closer and closer to her lifelong dream of being an agent of the FBI, Kimberley is content, if not happy with the way her life is going. That all changes one day when she is jogging on the PT course and finds the body of a girl that has a startling resemblance to her dead sister, Mandy. Suddenly she is willing to throw it all away to find the killer who left a girl for dead with her mouth sewn shut. GBI Agent Mac McCormick has been on the trail of the killer dubbed the 'Eco-Killer' for five years. When he suddenly strikes states away from his normal hunting ground, Mac knows that the stakes have been raised. It is a race against time as Mac and Kimberley scramble to find the two victims that are still alive somewhere, dumped in an almost impossible enviornment to survive, especially during the heat wave. Gardner does it again with The Killing Hour, bringing edge of your seat suspense that will hook the reader. We all felt for Kimberley during The Next Accident when her whole family was killed and she felt she was responsible. Finally, in The Killing Hour, she vanquishes old ghosts, while reconciling with her father. We also get to read about Quincy and Rainie whose story will bring a smile to your face. I am more a romance reader with a some suspense, but I will always read a Gardner.
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Summary: Girl FBI Agent Chases After Serial Killer
Review: Rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quinn is after a serial killer who abducts two women each time he attacks. The first he kills straightaway, leaving clues on the body as to the whereabouts of the second, who he kills later. Kimberly comes across one of the bodies while still in training at Quantico. In order to stay on the case she has to break rules and fight FBI politics even as she's trying to beat a deadline set by the killer. Kimberly may be a rookie, but she's determined, as determined as I was not to go to sleep until I finished this book.
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Summary: Suspense doesn't begin to describe it
Review: Suspense doesn't even begin to describe the feelings evoked in The Killing Hour. Every minute that creeps by in the story is pure agony for the reader, as well as the characters who are desperately trying to find missing young women before time runs out. You can sit down to read it, but you'll end up on the edge of your seat!
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Summary: Fast-paced action, suspense and sparks of passion.
Review: The killer has struck before. At the beginning of a heat wave, he sabotages the car of two women out having a good time. He kills one of them, and leaves clues on her body how to find the other. Messages left in the newspaper by the killer read "Heat kills." Between the years of 1998 and 2000, seven women died before the police found one victim barely alive, and then the killings stopped.
Kimberly Quincy is a New Agent in training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. The summer heat is stifling, yet she pushes herself to the limits of her endurance to help block the memories of the brutal deaths of her mother and sister. During a physical training exercise, she stumbles off the path and finds a dead woman in the bushes.
Michael "Mac" Macormack, special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, was a key player in the inquiry of the first murders. After receiving phone calls from someone claiming to know the identity of the murderer, he travels to Virginia to research the case, even though it's been years since the crimes were committed. When he hears the details of the body discovery in Quantico, he knows this must be the same perpetrator, dubbed the Eco-Killer by police.
Kimberly and Mac join forces to find the missing woman before it's too late. Fighting the bureaucracy that wants to analyze each piece of evidence for weeks, the two know they don't have that kind of time. A woman's life hangs in the balance. Will they find her in time? Will they discover the identity of the Eco-Killer before he strikes again?
THE KILLING HOUR combines fast-paced action, breath-holding suspense, and sparks of passion. Kimberly conquers her inner demons in the hopes that she can help find the missing woman alive. Lisa Gardner creates a cast of believable characters and a plot that doesn't stop until the last page. THE KILLING HOUR is everything I have come to expect from Ms. Gardner's novels and more!
Mystery and suspense lovers will not be disappointed in this latest offering from Lisa Gardner. Buckle your seatbelts and dive into THE KILLING HOUR, it will keep you guessing until the very end. Melissa Parcel
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Summary: Good but not great
Review: The Killing Hour has its moments. It is a fast read, the main plot is good and it is always interesting to be hot on the heels of an evil serial killer. But the characters are not really coming to life, and the usual 'stubborn heroine with a troubled past' is used too often.
Kimberly, the main character and heroine of the story, is a young FBI-trainee, and she is by coincidence and stubborness thrown into the investigation of a killer who has been killing for years. Kimberly is a troubled young woman with many demons, which is not making her life easier. She does not have any real friends, and her relationship with her father is neutral at best. When the serial killer starts dumping bodies close to the FBI training grounds, Kimberly cannot stay out of the investigation any more, even though her superiors has asked her to keep her nose out of it. Her father is an FBI agent who now has his own agency, and he suddenly shows up to help. Kimberly herself is also having personal motives to catch this killer, and while the time is running out, the clues comes together and it ends with a little twist which was just a little bit surprising. Hard core thriller readers will guess the identity of the killer long time before the final revelation.
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