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The Killing Hour (Quincy & Rainie #4)
by
Lisa Gardner
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 investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited...prey to a slow but certain death. The clock ticked--salvation was possible.
The police were never in time.
Years have passed; but for this killer, time has stood still. As a he...more
The police were never in time.
Years have passed; but for this killer, time has stood still. As a he...more
Paperback, 434 pages
Published
September 28th 2004
by Bantam
(first published January 1st 2003)
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This book was terribly average. It's about a serial killer who picks up two girlies at a time. This killer leaves one girl dead as a map for investigators to find the other (possibly still alive and suffering) victim. Unfortunately, the other girl is always left in an isolated, treacherous, hot location with only a bottle of water. The clock is a-ticking while investigators attempt to locate her.
Kimberly is a tortured young woman currently attending the FBI academy when the book begins. She stum...more
Kimberly is a tortured young woman currently attending the FBI academy when the book begins. She stum...more
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 "Eco-KIller"
This is a good sus...more
The 2 main officers in this story are "Mac" and Kimberly, and they are working trying to find this "Eco-KIller"
This is a good sus...more
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1. The Killing Hour
2. Lisa Gardner
3. Mystery, suspense thriller
4. Kimberly is the daughter of well known former FBI profiler Pierce Quincy. She has wanted to be in law enforcement since she was a kid. She was exposed to the crime world when her sister and mother were killed six years earlier. Now she is involved in a case where a body is found on the grounds of a marine base where she is currently taking a course to become a full-time FBI agent and she is determined to solve this case and find t...more
2. Lisa Gardner
3. Mystery, suspense thriller
4. Kimberly is the daughter of well known former FBI profiler Pierce Quincy. She has wanted to be in law enforcement since she was a kid. She was exposed to the crime world when her sister and mother were killed six years earlier. Now she is involved in a case where a body is found on the grounds of a marine base where she is currently taking a course to become a full-time FBI agent and she is determined to solve this case and find t...more
Jun 26, 2010
Christin
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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’.
The killer always abd...more
The killer always abd...more
Possibly the best of her books I've read so far! The Quincy/Rainie series is well and truly established by now. The characters have had a chance to develop and we know their backgrounds enough to feel attached to them.
The crime thriller really explores the 'behavioural analysis' / criminal mind aspects to the fullest potential in this novel, so if that's the genre you enjoy, you'll love this!
The suspense keeps you gripped from the very first sentence to the very last, with more twists and turns...more
The crime thriller really explores the 'behavioural analysis' / criminal mind aspects to the fullest potential in this novel, so if that's the genre you enjoy, you'll love this!
The suspense keeps you gripped from the very first sentence to the very last, with more twists and turns...more
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...more
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....more
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 dead,...more
This is a chilling thriller! Girls' Rule #1 is not to go out alone. Nevertheless, even adhering to this rule, young women have been kidnapped. One is killed immediately, but the other is used as a pawn in a mind game with law enforcement. Rightfully, law enforcement must focus on the kidnapped woman rather than immediately trying to find the perp. Quincy's daughter Kimberly finds the body. The game has escalated, however, because the killer now has kidnapped 4 young women! The race is on to find...more
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 investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited...a prey to a certain but slow death.
The clock ticked-salvation was possible.
The police were never in time.
Years have passed; but for this killer, time has stood still. As a heat wave of epic proportions descends, the game begins again. Two girls have disappeared...and the clock is ticking.
Rookie FBI a...more
Day after day, he waited for the first body to be discovered-a body containing all the clues the investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited...a prey to a certain but slow death.
The clock ticked-salvation was possible.
The police were never in time.
Years have passed; but for this killer, time has stood still. As a heat wave of epic proportions descends, the game begins again. Two girls have disappeared...and the clock is ticking.
Rookie FBI a...more
Nov 11, 2009
Conta-me Histórias
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
literatura-estrangeira,
policiais
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.
As pistas que o assassino deixa no primeiro corpo, não são de interpretação fácil, nem im...more
As pistas que o assassino deixa no primeiro corpo, não são de interpretação fácil, nem im...more
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 and...more
Had difficulty putting this book down; it was definitely a page turner. I am in awe of Gardner's imagination.
New author--definitely an author I will want to read more of.
The killer always takes girls in pairs. The first one is left by a roadside--easy to find. Belatedly, the police realize that she has clues leading to the second one. After 3 years, the ante is raised--he now took 4 girls. And everyone who is actually solving the case is rogue, because if they wait for the FBI who are still "studying the evidence" it will be too late.
Major players: Kim Quincy--FBI trainee; Mac--Georgia state police off...more
The killer always takes girls in pairs. The first one is left by a roadside--easy to find. Belatedly, the police realize that she has clues leading to the second one. After 3 years, the ante is raised--he now took 4 girls. And everyone who is actually solving the case is rogue, because if they wait for the FBI who are still "studying the evidence" it will be too late.
Major players: Kim Quincy--FBI trainee; Mac--Georgia state police off...more
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 try to sol...more
Dec 11, 2012
Sheetal
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
murder-mystery,
women-heroes
The book started slightly slowly for me, but as I got further into it, I found that I simply couldn't put it down.
A serial killer who kidnaps in girls pairs and leaves them to die, usually using the first one as a guide to finding the second one. It just so happens that Kimberly Quincy who is still getting over her trauma happens to find one of the victims and it all starts there.
Kimberly is the main character and just when you think she's not going to be able to solve it herself, step in Quin...more
A serial killer who kidnaps in girls pairs and leaves them to die, usually using the first one as a guide to finding the second one. It just so happens that Kimberly Quincy who is still getting over her trauma happens to find one of the victims and it all starts there.
Kimberly is the main character and just when you think she's not going to be able to solve it herself, step in Quin...more
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.
This one didn't seem as probable as the other Lisa Gardner books I've...more
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.
This one didn't seem as probable as the other Lisa Gardner books I've...more
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 w...more
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 Invest...more
This book gave me nightmares. I don't mean that as a compliment.
There is so much about Lisa Gardner, and The Killing Hour, deserving of praise. She's a sharp prose stylist and a hard working researcher. Her novels offer up to date investigative techniques and crime solvers who feel like real people -- fleshed out characters with personal problems, foibles and occasionally bad manners. Yet the portions of this book devoted to the POV of a young woman trapped in a pit were as disturbing and horrif...more
There is so much about Lisa Gardner, and The Killing Hour, deserving of praise. She's a sharp prose stylist and a hard working researcher. Her novels offer up to date investigative techniques and crime solvers who feel like real people -- fleshed out characters with personal problems, foibles and occasionally bad manners. Yet the portions of this book devoted to the POV of a young woman trapped in a pit were as disturbing and horrif...more
Sep 22, 2011
Brenda
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Thriller and Lisa Gardner lovers
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...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 quickly enough...more
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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...more
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 boys!
Cal, the handyman...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 boys!
Cal, the handyman...more
Jun 24, 2011
Jane Lee
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
suspense, murder-mystery fans
Shelves:
murder-mystery,
thrilling-and-suspenseful
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.
It is a grati...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.
It is a grati...more
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.
I really enjoy the D.D. Warren series, but this was just bad. Pure Harlequin drivel dressed up as a thriller, mystery etc. What IS it with the plethora of formulaic romance (mega hunk meets breathtakingly beautiful/emotionally brittle heroine, they have instant magnetic attraction despite being both being emotionally constipated blah, blah, BLAH)on the market? Why can't these kind of "badass bodice rippers" get a genre of their own so they're easier to avoid?!
I know most people liked this book, but I truly hated it. I'm a fan of Lisa Gardner...gave Love You More 5 stars!
I found this book boring; I found myself skipping paragraphs at the end just to get it finished. It wasn't at all suspenseful; I felt like I was reading a detailing of "facts" and I just did not feel any chemistry between Mac and Kimberly.
I expect my review will not be a popular one. I really tried to like it but just couldn't!
I found this book boring; I found myself skipping paragraphs at the end just to get it finished. It wasn't at all suspenseful; I felt like I was reading a detailing of "facts" and I just did not feel any chemistry between Mac and Kimberly.
I expect my review will not be a popular one. I really tried to like it but just couldn't!
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,
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.
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.
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New York Times bestselling crime novelist Lisa Gardner began her career in food service, but after catching her hair on fire numerous times, she took the hint and focused on writing instead. A self-described research junkie, she has parlayed her interest in po...more
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(1) mystery & thrillers, suspense
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New York Times bestselling crime novelist Lisa Gardner began her career in food service, but after catching her hair on fire numerous times, she took the hint and focused on writing instead. A self-described research junkie, she has parlayed her interest in po...more
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