Killing Rain

Rating:
Summary: One of PJ's best
Review: After waiting a year for another P. J. Parrish novel about the exploits of Louis Kinkaid, I was not disappointed. A great read-great characters. great story-BRAVO!. Now I have to wait another year, alas.

Rating:
Summary: Another excellent read!!!!!
Review: Killing Rain by P.J. Parrish is another great thriller.

What I enjoy about this author's work is that he writes intelligent, complex thrillers.

The main character is a loner (by choice) although you feel, in this book, that he is starting to get weary of it. Enters the sexy Susan, a defense attorney who has turned Kincaid's eye. Unfortunatley, she also comes with lots of baggage.

Which is where the story really starts unfolding. We have kidnapping, murder and general mayhem.
The author has a way of making the action kind of gather momentum and yet, his storytelling is never boring.

This book is a must read for any lover of good thrillers.

Rating:
Summary: Will the rain ever stop?
Review: Louis Kincaid, who is a private investigator and a loner by choice, would like to be more than friends with Susan Outlaw who is a defense attorney. She has issues with trusting and letting anyone get close to her. Louis finally asks her for a date and when he goes to pick her up, she has decided to cook dinner at home for him and Benjamin, her son from a previous marriage. Louis is a little disconcerted but goes along with the program. Just before dinner is finished, the husband whom Louis finds out is not really an ex, shows up and rains on their parade. Austin, who deserts his family for years at a time, uses his son to get at Susan. He demands that she let the child visit with him. Eleven-year-old Ben has missed his father and begs to go with him. Susan relents and then the trouble really starts. The two disappear after his business partner and secretary are found dead in their Miami office. Evidence points to Ben and Austin's deaths also but neither Louis nor Susan will give up hoping or searching for the missing duo.

P.J. Parrish weaves family dysfunction, love affairs, homosexuality, and the chase for the dollar into a great whodunit that will keep the reader's attention until the last page. There are interesting and informative visits to the swamps of Florida as well as to the prison where inmates may have information helpful to the investigation. The middle of the book was a bit slow as the search for Ben continued and each clue ended in a dead end, however, it is definitely a book the reader will want to finish in one sitting.

Reviewed by alice Holman
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers


Rating:
Summary: fantastic thriller
Review: Private detective Louis Kincaid tried for over a year to get a date with Susan Outlaw; when he finally succeeds and goes to her house, she informs him they will eat here with her son Benjamin. Louis does not mind because he likes Benjamin. While the trio dines together, Susan's estrange husband Austin arrives after an absence of a few years. For her son's sake, she lets her spouse stay in her home.

A few days pass before Louis calls to see how Susan and Ben are doing. She frantically tells him that Austin and Ben are missing. After a search turns up nothing, Louis returns home to ponder his next move, but Austin waits for him there. A panicked Austin explains that his business partner and secretary were abducted and ultimately killed; he fears for his son. Louis believes Ben is bait to lure Austin into a deadly trap. He continues his search although the police believe the lad is dead.

P.J. Parrish is a fantastic thriller writer with his latest winner filled with plenty of action and chase scenes and the author insures the key cast seems genuine. Austen is an interesting antagonist as readers will feel dismay towards him for abandoning his son to save his own skin and feel further ire when he refuses to reveal to anyone how he became a target of a professional hitman though that might help save Ben's life. In some ways he steals the show, but in contrast to the courage of Louis, who loves Susan and Ben, placing himself in danger to save someone else's son turns A KILLING RAIN into an enthralling gothic tale in the middle of the Everglades.

Harriet Klausner