Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780340938195
Format: Import
ISBN number: 0340938196
Label: Hodder Paperback
Manufacturer: Hodder Paperback
Page Count: 592
Printing Date: March 20, 2008
Publishing house: Hodder Paperback
Sale Popularity Level: 4593472
Studio: Hodder Paperback
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this took me a long time to get thru it!! way too much writing for the ending.....you could feel it all coming, but way too much of nothing to get there. i was surprised , usually i pick up one of her books and know it will be good..this was not the case.....too bad.
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Aside from this book being way too long, the editing was horrific. In the section with the real estate agent, her name changed from Laura to Laurie, back and forth, for the entire chapter, sometimes with her being called different names in two consecutive sentences! A halfway competent editor should've caught these things -- an editor for a NY Times best-selling author has no excuse.
I've liked the character of Montoya in previous books, and I liked Abby for the most part, except near the end when I thought she got stupid.
All in all, a decent read, but you can skim over big chunks of it and not miss a thing.
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This is the best book I have read in a long time. The story just flowed and I literally stayed up all night reading. I just couldn't put it down. The story is about a serial killer who chooses his victims because they all have a connection to a former mental hospital. It sounds scary, but it really wasn't. It kept me guessing until the end who the killer was. I plan on going to the library very first thing tomorrow to get other Lisa Jackson books.
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Lisa Jackson can write suspense so the reader really does "SHIVER" through most of this book. She does not let her readers down at all with this excellent and chilling tale. Mix an old closed mental hospital, a crazed killer who is positioning his victims in strange ways for some unexplained reasons, a cop that is falling for one that could be a suspect, and you have a whale of a mystery.
Abby Chastain's mother had been found dead twenty-years ago on the sidewalk of the mental hospital beneath a window three stories above. This occurred in "Our Lady of Virtues Mental Hospital" which is located beside a convent that is still inhabited even though the hospital is now closed and supposedly deserted! The circumstances of the death were really unknown. The hospital had called it a suicide but many debated this decision.
Abby was divorced when she caught her ex-husband, Luke, in bed with her sister, Zoey, a fact Zoey says was not true because when she and the ex were together, Abby and he were not married. That tiny detail kept the two apart for years. Luke was a well-known radio talk-show host. His tirades against many subjects kept him on top of his game but things came to a head when he opened up one day on the air putting down Abby in every way he could. It seems when Luke left he was given a certain period of time to get his things out of the house, but when that time had long gone by, Abby donated most his things to charity, including, Abby thought, a gun that had been in Luke's family for years. That one item really set Luke way off, on the air and off, especially when he talked to Abby on the phone. Things were worse than ever between them.
When murders started showing up beginning with the one of Luke and Mary LeBelle, two individuals that was so completely different from each other in everything they did in their lives, the cops started a strong investigation. With someone known as well as Luke, they had their hands full. And, why were the victims placed the way the killer posed them, Luke underneath Mary, completely naked, and Mary thrown across the top of him fully clothed. Abby was suspected because of her on and off the air battles with Luke. Detective Reuben Montoya was one assigned to the case. He started his interviews and investigation that brought many suspects into the picture from Abby to the radio station employees, to others not thought involved with Luke.
The spark flared almost immediately between Abby and Montoya. He was having a hard time being open-minded every time Abby came into his thoughts. Many other police joined into this crime along with other agencies when several other killings identical to Luke and Mary's posed murders appeared. What a sick mind this killer must have.
The investigation will take you into the convent, the closed mental hospital, several murder sites in the area, the morgue, and into the hearts of Abby and Montoya. Many times the reader will think they have this story figured out but believe me, you won't until you get very near the end. You will get "shivers" as you read. If you are preparing to go to sleep, you better put the book down some time before you do that!
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I won't rehash the plot. I agree with other reviewers, this book could have been written on a lot less paper. So much of the book is repetitive. You don't have to write the same thing 10 times for anyone to "get it". The book is rather boring....very little suspense. Honestly, I could not finish it.
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