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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780385524766
ISBN number: 0385524765
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: July 15, 2008
Publishing house: Doubleday
Release Date: July 15, 2008
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Inside the desperate world of TV ratings, an investigative reporter discovers that a serial killer is targeting women named Susan and killing one on the same day each year.
Television reporter Riley Spartz is recovering from a heartbreaking, headline-making catastrophe of her own when a longtime police source drops two homicide files in her lap in the back of a dark movie theater. Both cold cases involve women named Susan strangled on the same day, one year apart. Last seen alive in one of Minneapolis’s poorest neighborhoods, their bodies are each dumped in one of the city’s wealthiest areas. Riley senses a pattern between those murders and others pulled from a computer database of old death records. She must broadcast a warning soon, especially to viewers named Susan, because the deadly anniversary is approaching.
But not just lives are at stake— so are careers.
November is television sweeps month, and every rating point counts at Channel 3. Riley must go up against a news director who cares more about dead dogs than dead women, a politician who fears negative stories about serial killers will hurt the city’s convention business, and the very real possibility that her source knows more about the murders than he is letting on.
When Riley suspects the killer has moved personal items from one victim to the subsequent as part of an elaborate ritual, she stages a bold on-air stunt to draw him out and uncovers a motive that will leave readers breathless.
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This book grabbed me from the very first chapter and never let go. Terrific sleuth, with lots of personality and a compelling backstory, and well-drawn secondary characters. Great premise. And Julie Kramer did a fantastic job portraying a TV newsroom, with its quirky characters and often skewed outlook on the world. (I know; I worked in TV news for years.) The second I finished this book, I started looking forward to the subsequent novel from this author. Highly recommended.
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I love mysteries, especially those with serial killers. This book was well-paced. The premise was that women named Susan were being killed on the same date in multiple years. The characters were unique - the narrator is a TV reporter, who actually has an interesting backstory. The setting is Minnesota, which is not run-of-the-mill either.
This is a book you'll carry around with you until you've finished it - you want to keep reading. If you like mysteries where all the loose ends are tied up and explained, the characters' actions are logical but not necessarily predictable, you'll like this book.
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In several instances, I wanted to say, what? Illogical in several instances, and the plot and denouement were predictable. Concentrate on character development and plot the subsequent time.
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I ordered this book, Stalking Susan, because I read a great review in my hometown paper, Pioneer Press. also, the novelist was a TV reporter in my town and the crimes took place in our state. I loved the characters, various plots, not just one mystery story but several. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes I can't put the book down theory. I hope Julie Kramer writes another.
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"First time author Julie Kramer is off to a great start with Riley Spartz, a widow who is also a television reporter. In the days of you are only as good as your last ratings, Spartz is handed a file of two cold case murders where both victims are named Susan. Kramer, who is a news producer in real life, offers a behind the scenes tell all of the makings of television stories to deliver a great who done it."
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