Each time he struck, he took two victims. Day after day, he waited for the first body to be discovered--a body containing all the clues the invest...
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Jul 04, 2008
Jen
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A psychopath killer strikes every summer, and he kills in pairs. The first body is left in a place that is well noticed and the killer places clues on the body. The police are supposed to use the clues and try and get to the second victim before she is dead. However, often times, the police don't work fast enough and by the time they reach the eecond girl, she is dead!
The 2 main officers in this story are "Mac" and Kimberly, and they are working trying to find this " More...
The 2 main officers in this story are "Mac" and Kimberly, and they are working trying to find this " More...
Jun 26, 2010
Lisa Gardner is a favorite author of mine. She writes suspense, often involving Pierce Quincy or his daughter, Kimberly. The Killing Hour has Kimberly at the center – she is training to become an FBI agent when she stumbles on to a dead body and finds out that there is a serial killer on the loose. Gardner is really great at switching the narrative. The story is in third person, but its focus switches from Kimberly’s to Mac’s to the killer’s to some of the intended victims’.
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Mar 18, 2010
BarkLessWagMore
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This book was terribly average. A serial killer who picks up two girl's at a time leaving one dead as a map for investigators to find the other. Unfortunately, the other girl is always left in an isolated, treacherous location where she is forced to struggle to survive with only a bottle of water in the stifling heat while investigators attempt to locate her.
Kimberly, a young tortured woman currently attending the FBI academy, stumbles across the first body and throws away her dreams o More...
Kimberly, a young tortured woman currently attending the FBI academy, stumbles across the first body and throws away her dreams o More...
Sep 03, 2010
Linda
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I read lots of serial killer novels, but few have hooked me the way The Killing Hour did, from the very first page. Mac McCormack, special agent of Georgia's Bureau of Investigations, literally runs into FBI trainee Kimberly Quincy. Mac is on the trail of a cold case serial killer, whom he believes responsible for the murder that Kimberly discovered while out on her fitness workout. The FBI is less than thrilled about a body dumped on their Virginia campus, about Mac's presence, and about having
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Jul 28, 2011
Athena
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I've read a few novels by Lisa Gardner but this wasn't one of my favorites. It was slow in the beginning, and then picked up towards the end, but was ultimately predictable. The good guys always win. There is a serial killer, the Eco-Killer, who kidnaps college girls in pairs. Killing one girl instantly and leaving clues on the body to help the authorities find the second victim. Kimberly Quincy, a new FBI agent, instinctively creates a bond between herself and the victims due to past incidents.
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Jul 02, 2010
S.D.
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Hot summers are deadly as victims discover. A killer takes two victims, leaving the first with clues on how to find the second. Special Agent Mac McCormack has been tracking the killer for a number of years. Kimberly Quincy is a rookie FBI agent living in the shadows of her famous father, FBI profiler Pierce Quincy. When Kimberly stumbles over a victim left on the property of Quantico, she is compelled to help find the killer. Herself a survivor of an attack that left her sister and mother
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Dec 16, 2009
Conta-me
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Mais um policial de Lisa Gardner. Mais uma leitura empolgante. Esta é a história de um assassino, que rapta sempre duas jovens. Uma aparece sempre morta junto de uma estrada e com todas as pistas para que a segunda rapariga seja encontrada. Para ele é um jogo, iniciado com o rapto, e onde a primeira vítima é como um mapa, através do qual, se poderia salvar a segunda vítima, que terá uma morte lenta e sádica.
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As pistas que o assassino deixa no primeiro corpo, não são de interpretação f More...
Feb 02, 2011
Ashley
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The Kililng Hour is a wonderful book. Lisa Gardner has become one of my favorite authors. The way she writes her book switching from one character to the next stopping at a point making you ask "what's happening next? Or what is going to happen?" I was always on the edge of my seat wondering who it could have been. I never would have guessed the killer was Dr. Ennunzio. At first when he said he had a brother and he was the killer I had believed it until they found out he had no brother
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Sep 05, 2009
Debbie
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This is actually not bad for what it is, but what it is is not my thing. This seems to be part of a series in which an ex FBI agent figures--more so in some entries than others. In this installment his daughter Kimberly Quincy is in FBI training at Quantico when she finds a dead body on a run in the woods. She hooks up with a policeman from Atlanta who believes that this dead body is related to a series of murders in Georgia. There is romance and multiple multiple characters and bazaar clues
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Aug 05, 2011
C. Teresina
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My second favorite Lisa Gardner book. Kimberly Quincy (from "The Next Accident") is back and is now training at the FBI Academy to be a Special Agent. All of the information is well-researched in this novel, which adds to the intensity of the story. Kimberly runs into Mac, a visiting GBI Agent who was working on the Eco-Killer cases in Georgia. As a heat wave begins in Viriginia, the Eco-Killer strikes again, drawing Kimberly, Mac, Pierce Quincy, and Rainie Conner into the mix as they
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Apr 02, 2011
Paul
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Serial killer who attacks pairs of young women. He kills one of each pair. In and around the body are ecological clues to the location of the second. If authorities identify the clues in time, they'll be able to save the second young woman.
Several of the scenes, I thought, were quite shocking; A live clue left in the sewn up mouth of one of the victims being one, and a sink hole containing an imprisoned survivor being another.
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Several of the scenes, I thought, were quite shocking; A live clue left in the sewn up mouth of one of the victims being one, and a sink hole containing an imprisoned survivor being another.
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Jan 18, 2011
Tricia
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While I've not read the other titles in the series (this is #4), this book did fine as a standalone. It started out pretty strong but I felt the story took a strange turn towards the end with a former crime victim being included in the search for remaining victims...and also the identity/story behind the killer felt a bit of a stretch for me personally. I would probably give another Gardner book a try but if it was similiar in structure/plot, I would opt for Koontz or Sandford which I feel are
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May 22, 2011
Skip
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FBI Profiler series #4 started slow, with a focus on Kimberly Quincy's FBI training at Quantico. Not as robust a character as Rainie or her father, we are quickly dragged into a dormant serial killer's awakening. Killing women in pairs, he leaves challenging clues with the first to point to the second, providing an opportunity to rescue her. Kimberly takes a leave from training and goes off to try to save a victim with the primary investigator from the earlier murders, a Georgia Bureau of In
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Sep 22, 2011
Brenda
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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 qu More...
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 qu More...
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Jul 11, 2010
Kim
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It's been a long time since I've read a book that I couldn't put down. This book broke me out of that drought. I read it every spare moment I had (it helped to be on vacation with nothing to do) and the book even kept me up late some night. I kept wanting to know more! I can't say that I'm a huge fan of the detectives that are investigating the murder. However, the concept of the crime really interested me. The idea of a man killing a girl and using her a map to find a second girl who might have
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Apr 08, 2008
Gina
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A great stand-alone novel.
After the small disappointment I felt when I had read Killing Time, I was a little hesitant to read another Howard novel so soon. I had read the synopsis and decided to give it a try. I'm glad I did!
Cate, a regular widowed, single mom of twins, who owns and runs a B & B. I loved how she handled everything; from the normal, everyday worries about running your own business to raising her twins, four-year-old boys - especially how she handles her bo More...
After the small disappointment I felt when I had read Killing Time, I was a little hesitant to read another Howard novel so soon. I had read the synopsis and decided to give it a try. I'm glad I did!
Cate, a regular widowed, single mom of twins, who owns and runs a B & B. I loved how she handled everything; from the normal, everyday worries about running your own business to raising her twins, four-year-old boys - especially how she handles her bo More...
Jun 24, 2011
Jane Lee
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I started reading this around 10 p.m. but decided to put it down around 12 midnight so I can sleep early. Big mistake. I merely twisted and turned in bed, maniacally thinking about the book, who the serial killer is and Tina's experiences as she attempts to survive.
So around 4 a.m., I got up in bed (I haven't slept yet) and finished the book. The killer's methods were new to me so I was gripped into the suspense, of the police officers' hunt for the next survivor and for the killer. More...
So around 4 a.m., I got up in bed (I haven't slept yet) and finished the book. The killer's methods were new to me so I was gripped into the suspense, of the police officers' hunt for the next survivor and for the killer. More...
May 30, 2011
Juliajuliah
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I bought two books by Lisa Gardner on the recommendation of my parents’ neighbour. With good reviews and gripping plots outlined on their back covers, I knew that I would be hooked in to these thrilling page turners – and I was.
In “The Killing Hour” a new FBI agent, Kimberly Quincy, gets caught up in a complicated case. This novel is set during the humid heat of an extraordinarily hot summer. This proved to be a great escape as I read this during a cold, autumnal August.
In “The Killing Hour” a new FBI agent, Kimberly Quincy, gets caught up in a complicated case. This novel is set during the humid heat of an extraordinarily hot summer. This proved to be a great escape as I read this during a cold, autumnal August.
Aug 30, 2009
Mackenzie
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I loved The Killing Hour, it was really intriguing. It was a tad confusing at the beginning because I've read a book by Gardner before with Kimberly Quincy as the main character and it was a book following this one I believe.
I love Kimberly and Mac together, especially in the beginning of their "relationship" because they seem so in love and just generally happy together. :)
I had a gut feeling the last 150 pages who I thought the Eco-Killer was. Then Gardner add More...
I love Kimberly and Mac together, especially in the beginning of their "relationship" because they seem so in love and just generally happy together. :)
I had a gut feeling the last 150 pages who I thought the Eco-Killer was. Then Gardner add More...
Jul 19, 2011
Nancy
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I LOVE Ms Gardner's suspenses. She's my go-to gal, but in The Killing Hour, instead of developing the characters I adored or the plot which fascinated, I was constantly pulled from the story to get a lesson whatever the H/H was doing at the moment, ie tracking, map reading, etc. These sidebar history lessons/info dumps were interesting but they broke the pace of the book and became downright annoying. I chalk it up to this being one of her old books,
Aug 29, 2009
Tom
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Interesting premise. A serial killer takes two victims at a time. He leaves the first body to be found by police, salted with clues which lead to the second victim, who is still alive, but booby trapped. The trick is to decipher the clues and get to the second victim before she dies. FBI rookie Kimberly Quincy (think Clarice Starling) is hooked into helping to solve the case. The uniqueness of the plot and the twist at the end make this a satisfying read.
Jan 06, 2009
Andrea
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I really like Lisa Gardner. This book is about the FBI (kind of) trying to catch a serial killer and save his current victim(s) before it's too late. It's not as graphic as Patricia Cromwell, but it has the detective/clues that I enjoy. This book uses characters from her previous books, so it might be good to go back and find ones that she wrote first... you'd still get it even if you don't read the previous ones.
Feb 15, 2010
Anita
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I liked this book. I read when I could/should have been doing other things. cleaning/knitting/studying/sewing... The story is an interesting premise. the serial killer takes two victims and leaves the first victim as a hint where the second can be rescued. since this one involved science and investigation, it also kept me intrigued. I'll definitely go back and read other Quincy and Rainie books by Gardner.
Dec 22, 2011
Joyce
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A young woman is training to be an FBI Agent. Her father (with whom she has a poor relationship) is a noted and retired Profiler. Both her sister and her Mother were murdered by a man who also attempted to murder her. While she is our running at night, she comes across the body of a young woman who was 'dumped' in Quantico. She and an Agent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, whom she also recently met, begin to investigate the murder because he believes it is the work of a serial killer
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Oct 03, 2011
Heather
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I didn't think I would like Quincy's daughter becoming a focal point but 1.) the storyline of the crimes was that good for me and 2.) the other agent that she is connected to in the case makes it even more enthralling. I came to appreciate her more by the end and Q and R had just the right amount of page time for me. The clicking clock and urgency of this story made it more of a page turner.
Mar 13, 2011
Audrey
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Great book, a wonderful thriller, it kept me on the edge and guessing until the end! I could not put it down, once I started reading, Lisa Gardner is so good at the description of her characters and their surroundings, I really felt I was in the midst of the action, the victims and the horrors they experienced seemed very real to me. This is not one I will easily forget.
Nov 18, 2011
Cheryl
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This novel contains everything an intense thriller/suspense novel should. Creepy psychotic bad guy, strong driven and intelligent hero/heroine, and plot twists that you didn't quite see coming. It also contains enough information to give you empathy for the characters so that you are rooting them on all the way.
Lisa Gardner is a master of her craft.
Lisa Gardner is a master of her craft.
Aug 18, 2008
Betita
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Fantástico!
Como sempre faço com os livros desta autora, peguei-lhe e só o larguei quando terminei!
Quando o comecei apercebi-me logo que já conhecia a personagem principal, por isso foi-me muito fácil "entrar" na história e perceber as reacções dela a toda a situação... mas confesso que tive de ir procurar de que livro ela vinha ;)
Kimberly Quincy foi a sobrevivente do A Vingança dos Olhos Negros!
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Como sempre faço com os livros desta autora, peguei-lhe e só o larguei quando terminei!
Quando o comecei apercebi-me logo que já conhecia a personagem principal, por isso foi-me muito fácil "entrar" na história e perceber as reacções dela a toda a situação... mas confesso que tive de ir procurar de que livro ela vinha ;)
Kimberly Quincy foi a sobrevivente do A Vingança dos Olhos Negros!
Kimberly vai resolver o caso do "Assassino Ecológico" de More...
Jun 11, 2011
E
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This is one of Lisa Gardner's best books...I couldn't put it down. The author Lisa Gardner is truly amazing at bringing you straight into the book, leaving no gory details out at the crime scenes. This book is gripping in its twists and turns, there's even a romantic relationship, which you just wish will workout, amid the killing.
Apr 19, 2011
Lisa
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Kimberly Quincy is probably my least favorite character of Gardner's, but despite that, I enjoyed the story. She made the circumstances of the case and the supporting characters (Mac especially) interesting enough to carry you through to the end. The chase is exciting and I was glad to see Quincy and Rainie join the fun.
