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.
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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
