Lisa GardnerThe Killing Hour

I loved this book! I couldn’t put it down! This series is my first time reading Lisa Gardner, and it’s well worth the read!

"The Killing Hour," by Lisa Gardner, NY, Bantam, 2004 ISBN 0-553-58452-9 (pbk), 431 pg. This a chilling suspense novel entwining lives of FBI trainee Kimberly Quincy & Georgia Police Agent Michael McCormack -- each has a personal agenda but combine forces to aid solving multiple paired serial abductions & subsquent painful deaths of young girls whose bodies are later discovered in desolate Georgia & Virginia outback's. The murderer, dubbed "Eco-Killer", submits short cryptic 'Dear Editor' notes to local papers & kills the 1st of each victim pair but leaves clues to placement of the 2nd victims in remote locations where local flora, fauna & domain makes passage & escape treacherous. So yes, there's urgency in deciphering clues & locating the 2nd victim before her grisly death. Provocative use is made of many forensic specialists.We are inundated by Gardner's minutely detailed guesome & macabre autopsy findings, of abused both living & dead bodies by unsavory fauna of flies, maggots, crawling creatures, acids, mud & we experience insufferable heat felt by search party members & victims. We learn of survival & search/rescue techniques used to overcome hostile milieu that tests the strength & fragility of the human condition. A double whammy "Hitchcockian" ending is satisfying & muses "Why Do Murderers Murder?"The author's alternation of passages between murderer, his quarry & the "good guys" (Kimberly, Mac, et al) is sorta choppy like Huxley's "Point Counterpoint" -- & p. 145 commentary "...to find oxygen in air that was 90 percent water" over-reaches. But, Gardner's command of technical, romatic, & fictional facts made this an entrancing & chilling macabre read. I do recommend!

Kimberly, training to be an FBI agent, found the dead girl. Mac, a detective from Georgia, wants to get the leaf the local coroner took off the girl’s body. Will Kimberly and Mac’s experience and frustrations help or hinder them as they seek the killer and try to save any victim left alive? Enjoy this thrilling tale and all the talented people who play a hand in solving these murders and stopping this killer!!!

Great book! I couldn’t stop reading. Clever writing !! Thank you Lisa Gardner !! I’m looking forward to reading another!

Great read. Very thrilling so couldn't put it down. Loved the characters. Intend to read more of Lisa Gardner's books again as I have in the past. She once again has captured my interest.

This is the fourth book in the FBI profiler series. I could not put this down. Such a great series!Mac is an agent with the GBI. He’s been hunting a killer for a few years without luck but the he is about to strike again. Two girls are abducted. One is killed and clues are left to find the other. Will Mac be able to solve the clues and find the girl in time?Kimberly Quincy is currently training to be an FBI agent. Her path crosses with Mac when she discovers a body linked to his case. She desperately wants to solve this crime and find the killer. Will she break the FBI rules in her determination to solve the case?

Read in one day. Couldn’t put it down.She keeps you guessing the whole time trying to interpret all the clues

I have read virtually every book you have (that is the truth), except your love stories which I am not a fan. You are a fantastic writer bringing suspense and excitement to your books. I can hardly put one down. Unfortunately, while this book was exciting it was weak in two areas. First too much filler that had nothing to do with the story/mystery (boring) and second unlike most of your books I could not find much in the of clues to help identify the killer. One of the things that make your books exciting is you usually leave "bread crumbs". I will continue to look forward to any new books that you write.

Thrilling, couldn't put it down, want to carry on reading in freezing cold bath, gripping, highly recommended, can't wait to read more in the series

J’ai enfin retrouvé un nouvel écrivain de polars avec un style différent , pas ennuyeux et qui maintient le suspense jusqu’à la fin

Livre très propre. Qualité telle qu'indiquée.

I am reading When You See Me, book 8 in this series and it’s promising to be as exciting as all the others that I have read, I love Lisa Gardners books they are well written and full of drama,, excitement and everything I like in a book, I can’t put them down once I start reading, would recommend them highly to anyone who likes crime mysteries, I love the characters, warts and all, and will remain a firm fan

A top thriller! Lisa Gardner is one of the stars in this genreand keeps getting better and better.