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The Killing Hour (2004)

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0553584529 (ISBN13: 9780553584523)
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English
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I was impressed by the detailed way the author presented each crime scene. She admitted at the beginning of the book that she had tons of help with developing this. As a reader, that set up the expectation that this book would be boring and the characters flat.I was happily wrong! Although the book did drag in a couple of places, I was so engrossed I was able to finish it in one day. I did rate it a 3, although I would probably give it a 3 1/2 overall. Firstly, trust me I know that this has nothing to do with the story, I dislike it when authors/publishers place acknowledgement or why they wrote the story at the beginning. In my mind it takes away from the story and distracts the reader. Secondly, there were the spots that dragged. I think at one point I skipped ahead 10 pages and was not left with the sense that I had missed anything. That always to me feels me like author just filled up pages to appease the publisher. Thirdly, I had figured out early on who the killer was, but the way the author presented him throughout the story spoke of someone with a mental illness. To have that brushed aside at the end made no sense. She had included aspects of bi-polar, schizophrenia, and split personalities, but chose to say he was a psychopath. She spent all that time researching the FBI, criminal investigation procedures, and botanists (and others); as she went on and on about. However, it felt like she spent no time learning the actual psychological reasons people can commit a crime or the mind of a criminal.

Rivetting! Lisa Gardner never fails to provide a spine tingling tale of suspense!The residents of Atlanta are gripped by terror everytime the temperature reaches heatwave proportions. Because that's when the killer strikes...he kidnaps two college girls who have been having a night out in a bar, dressed in their finery, high heeled shoes, purse...he leaves one where she is easily found, with clues on her body to find the next one. If the law inforcement agencies can read the clues quickly enough, they MAY find the second girl alive.GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigation) Special Agent Mac McCormack has been profiling the killer since the very beginning, with no end in sight. Now, with a heatwave descending, the game begins again. New Agent Kimberley Quincy, while doing part of her training course, stumbles across the body of a young girl...she is in the grounds of the Bureau's training facility at Quantico. It seems the killer wants the FBI's finest in the game now! The race is on...clock's ticking..can you hear it?...heat kills! Kimberley and Mac combine their efforts to find the killer...they are led to many different parts of the country, in terrain so rugged and dangerous that very few could survive!The twists and turns of this plot, the anguish of the families, the horror of what the killer will do, make this an extremely chilling and exciting thriller! I had trouble putting this one down, and recommend it highly!

What do You think about The Killing Hour (2004)?

A cold case grows hot again in Gardner's sixth high-octane page-turner, a romantic thriller that features rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy. Kimberly is the daughter of Pierce Quincy, former FBI profiler turned PI, last seen in The Next Accident. She's a tough, troubled young woman still recovering from the murders of her mother and sister six years earlier. During week nine of the FBI Academy's 16-week training program in Virginia, she discovers the body of a young woman who looks like her late sister. Since the corpse has been dumped on a secured Marine base, the Naval Criminal Investigation Service is in charge, but determined Kimberly soon takes a leave of absence so she can team up with Michael "Mac" McCormack, visiting Georgia Bureau of Investigations Special Agent, along with her father and his partner, Rainie Connor, to prevent another death. Mac receives taunting mail and cell phone messages ("planet dying... animals weeping... rivers screaming... can't you hear it? Heat kills") that lead him to suspect a serial eco-killer who last struck in Georgia three years earlier, leaving seven dead women and one survivor. Sparks fly between Kimberly and Mac as they rush to rescue the eco-killer's latest victim, Tina Krahn. Gardner offers riveting glimpses of Tina's struggle to survive in an environmentally hazardous locale.
—★¸. • * ° * ༺*Blanka*༺*°°*•.¸. ♥★

Definitely the weakest of the Quincy/Rainie(Kimberly?) series so far. The plot was full of holes and kind of felt all over the place. The killer's method was imaginative and inventive, and that kept me interested, but the killer's identity left a lot to be desired as far as I'm concerned. I am still a fan of the Q&R relationship; in contrast, I HATED the introduction of Mac. I couldn't believe the amount of times he referred to Kimberly as "sweetie" or "honey." Lisa Gardner...honey...not all men from Georgia -- ESPECIALLY so called professionals in the GBI -- talk like that, bless your heart. The fact that Kimberly never once called him on it was even worse; she's supposed to be this tough, independent woman, but she lets this strange guy constantly use little cloying endearments towards her? Right.
—Sara

Fast paced, action packed, a vicious serial killer, and romance. Lisa Gardner really knows how to pack a punch with good beach reads, and she delivers 100% with The Killing Hour.Kimberly Quincy is about halfway through her FBI training at Quantico when she stumbles across the body of a young woman during a class run. This is no ordinary kill though. The body has been left with several clues, and it soon becomes clear that a serial killer is on the loose again. Each time he kills, he takes two young women. The first body holds clues to where the second victim can be found. Enter handsome GBI (Georgia Bureau of Investigation) Special Agent Mac McCormack, the man who has been chasing the killer for years. McCormack knows that when the temperatures rise, the killer will strike again. Kimberly and Mac combine forces to find the second victim and catch the killer before it's too late and he strikes again.
—Carrie Kellenberger

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