Death Notice (Kat Campbell #1)
by
Todd Ritter
Perry Hollow, Pennsylvania, has never had a murder.At least not as long as Kat Campbell has been police chief.And the first isbrutal. George Winnick, a farmer in his sixties, is found in a homemade coffin on the side of the highway with his lips sewn shut and his veins and arteries drained of blood and filled with embalming fluid.Chilling as that is, it becomes even more s...more
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published
October 12th 2010
by Minotaur Books
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Inhalt: In der Kleinstadt Perry Hollow wird am Straßenrand eine Kiste aufgefunden, die große Ähnlichkeit mit einem Sarg aufweist. Als Sheriff Kat Campbell am Fundort eintrifft, muss sie schnell feststellen, dass die Ähnlichkeit nicht nur äußerlich ist, denn in der Kiste befindet sich ein Bürger ihrer Stadt, tot, blutleer und mit zugenähten Lippen sowie einer genähten Wunde am Hals.
Zudem erhält Henry Groll, der bei der Lokalzeitung für die Nachrufte verantwortlich ist und sich nie groß Freunde in...more
Zudem erhält Henry Groll, der bei der Lokalzeitung für die Nachrufte verantwortlich ist und sich nie groß Freunde in...more
Death Notice is Todd Ritter’s debut mystery. If the way people are being killed doesn’t make you turn on the lights, then you’re a lot less squeamish than I am. I couldn’t have written this ‘cause I would have scared myself silly. Death Notice starts off with the killing of Winnick, then ratchets up the intensity by giving you just enough time between victims to catch your breath.
You get to know the people in the town and come to like Sheriff Campbell’s commitment to stopping the murderer. Your...more
You get to know the people in the town and come to like Sheriff Campbell’s commitment to stopping the murderer. Your...more
Oct 26, 2011
Dorie
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Fans of Mo Hayder and Karin Slaughter
Shelves:
crime-fiction
A solid debut mystery that was a bit too graphically gory for my taste. If the method that the killer uses doesn’t make you cringe, you’re a much stronger person that I am. Still, it won’t keep me from reading Ritter’s newly released second book.
A killer appears to be on the loose in Perry Hollow, Pennsylvania. The police chief is Kat Campbell, single mother of a boy with Down Syndrome. Nick Donnelly is a Lieutenant with the State Police, who arrives to assist with the case. Shortly before commi...more
A killer appears to be on the loose in Perry Hollow, Pennsylvania. The police chief is Kat Campbell, single mother of a boy with Down Syndrome. Nick Donnelly is a Lieutenant with the State Police, who arrives to assist with the case. Shortly before commi...more
Death Notice is Todd Ritter’s debut novel and first in the Kat Campbell series. Kat is the police chief of small town Perry Hollow, Pa., where crime is a rarity. She and the townspeople are shocked when their tranquility is shattered by a brutal murder. Knowing she is out of her league, Kat calls in the help of the state police, which arrives in the form of Lieutenant Nick Donnelly and his task force. Terror is added to Kat’s shock when Nick tells her the murder appears to be the work of a seria...more
New to the crime fiction scene is Todd Ritter and what a debut novel he has came up with here! The sleepy town of Perry Hollow has never had a murder, that is until one cold winter's morning when police chief Kat Campbell gets called out to a scene where a home-made coffin has been left at the side of the road with a body of a local farmer inside, embalmed, with his lips sewn shut and a deep cut across his throat. With help from the state police and an obituary writer for the town's paper who re...more
Right off the bat, this doesn’t read like a freshman effort at all. Death Notice is an excellent novel and I am really looking forward to the follow up, if there is one. Todd Ritter has put together a fun, compelling read that contains all the right elements to make just about anyone that enjoys this genre of novel happy. Have I piqued your interest at all? Hopefully. Here is a look at what to expect once this novel grabs you and pulls your inside: ”Perry Hollow,Pennsylvania, has never had a mur...more
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Overall a good debut, I can see Todd Ritter becoming an author that has a formula and gets his execution down to perfection. There was one scene, (cemetery) a total edge of your seat, not breathing moment. That was up there with the best authors in my opinion, definite potential.
There were some areas of the story that felt like the norm, I had read it before and other times the tension was built up nicely. A small town dealing with a serial killer, this was done well but when you re...more
Overall a good debut, I can see Todd Ritter becoming an author that has a formula and gets his execution down to perfection. There was one scene, (cemetery) a total edge of your seat, not breathing moment. That was up there with the best authors in my opinion, definite potential.
There were some areas of the story that felt like the norm, I had read it before and other times the tension was built up nicely. A small town dealing with a serial killer, this was done well but when you re...more
Oct 20, 2011
Sheila Beaumont
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Shelves:
adult-fiction,
mysteries-suspense-thrillers
Excellent whodunit and thriller set in a small, quiet town in Pennsylvania that's threatened by a brutal serial killer. Characters are vividly portrayed, among them Kat Campbell, the police chief, who's a single mom with a Down syndrome son; Nick Donnelly, an investigator with the state police who has been obsessed with pursuing serial killers ever since he lost his sister to one 30 years ago; and especially Henry Goll, a reclusive, facially scarred newspaper obit writer with a tragic past. Perf...more
In Death Notice, George Winnick is found dead on the side of the highway. He's in a coffin and it looks like someone tried to embalm him. If that's not bizarre enough, Henry Goll, the obituary writer for the Perry Hollow Gazette, received a death notice for Winnick before he died. The town's police chief, Kat Campbell, has never handled a murder case simply because there hasn't been one. The Pennsylvania Bureau of Investigation is called in to take over the case. They have been looking for the "...more
I enjoyed this book. It's a pretty effective thriller. The prose can be a bit flat and the dialogue was often matter-of-fact, uninspired or cliched, but I cared about the characters and the plot was very well constructed. It had the right number of twists and turns, lulls and frantic action scenes. It was neither completely predictable - there were enough plausible red herrings to keep you guessing - nor so determined to surprise you that the reveal felt like a cheat - I had the identity of the...more
Nov 08, 2010
Eric
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Mystery lovers, small-town Pa. folks
Recommended to Eric by:
Todd Ritter and his Star-Ledger fans
Todd Ritter's debut novel is the kind of mystery that keeps you turning the pages no matter what else you should be doing. Ritter, a small-town guy, captures the feel of a place where everyone knows everyone else, and how inexplicable, horrifying events at once polarize and enrapture everyone. (Full disclosure: I am a former colleague of Todd's, having once hired him for a job, and grew up in the same region of Pennsylvania.) The mystery is as authentic in its emotions as in its small-town feel,...more
Jan 23, 2013
Kimberly Hicks
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Everyone
Recommended to Kimberly by:
Goodreads
Shelves:
read-on-kindle
WOW, if you ever wanted to know the correct way to write a murder mystery, Todd Ritter is your man! Wooo Weee, what an emotional roller coaster ride this story took me on. AWWWWWWESOME!
Chief Police Kat Campbell lives in a nice and quiet suburb of Perry Hollow where crime has taken a back seat and the most action Kat may see is for a traffic violation or disorderly conduct. So when her sheriff calls and advised that he got word there was some sort of strange box sitting off to the side of the ro...more
Chief Police Kat Campbell lives in a nice and quiet suburb of Perry Hollow where crime has taken a back seat and the most action Kat may see is for a traffic violation or disorderly conduct. So when her sheriff calls and advised that he got word there was some sort of strange box sitting off to the side of the ro...more
Für Kat ist schnell klar, dass dieser Fall zu viel für sie ist und schnell gibt sie die Verantwortung an die Kollegen der Landespolizei ab. Und damit soll sie Recht behalten, denn der Killer treibt ein grausames Spiel und schickt schon vor der Ermordung des Mannes eine Nachricht an die örtliche Zeitung, mit dem Inhalt einer Todesanzeige.
‚Das Schweigen der Toten‘ beschreibt das absolute Grauen einer jeden Kleinstadt: Plötzlich ist die Kleinstadtidylle gestört und ein möglicher Serienmörder geht u...more
‚Das Schweigen der Toten‘ beschreibt das absolute Grauen einer jeden Kleinstadt: Plötzlich ist die Kleinstadtidylle gestört und ein möglicher Serienmörder geht u...more
I actually enjoyed this more than I thought I would! I picked it up from the discount shelf at the book store, read the blurb, and put it back... was in two minds whether to buy it or not, but decided to give it a go.
It took me a while to get 'hooked', but once the story develops, I found it hard to stop reading!
Warning: it's pretty gruesome! I'm a forensic science student and I see pretty grizzly things on daily basis, but this book actually gave me nightmares! Not for the faint-hearted. I als...more
It took me a while to get 'hooked', but once the story develops, I found it hard to stop reading!
Warning: it's pretty gruesome! I'm a forensic science student and I see pretty grizzly things on daily basis, but this book actually gave me nightmares! Not for the faint-hearted. I als...more
this was the author's first novel, so I'll give him some latitude, but... he had the bones of a good plot and originality- which isn't easy for a mystery novel. Unfortunately he took his good frame and filled in many spaces with some poorly thought-out characters/scenes It's set in a small town with a 2 person police force, yet it always takes them 20 minutes to travel across town? Overall though, it was a good first effort.
A serial killer terrorizes a small town. Yes it has been done many times before, but there was enough of a story and enough original nastiness in this book to keep you gripped and keen to ind out what happened next. The characters were fairly believable, if perhaps a little stereotypical, and the story had a decent pace.
Ritter certainly paints a picture, echoes of Jeff Lindsay and Chelsea Cain...
Good mystery, really twisty and slightly nauseating.
Good mystery, really twisty and slightly nauseating.
very easy reading this book, good characters and good storyline, a few mistakes here and there but kept me interested through out the book,the serial killers name i thought was bit corny but that for me was all that was wrong, i believe this his first venture into this genre, hopefully it won't be his last would definitely recommend this one.
I found this book in 'The Works'. It was on offer, but I left the book. Not sure about the story line after I bought the book. I finally read and finished it this week. I was left wanting more, but.. I didn't really love the book. I love all gory bits in the book and I was always surprised at what happened next. I loved the characters, I felt very sorry for Kat Campbell, who was the Chief of Police and also a single mother to a downs syndrome child. Each character has their own sad story, the to...more
Author and journalist Todd Ritter holds very little back in his first novel, Death Notice. It’s gritty and suspenseful—and it’s often surprisingly, stomach-churningly graphic.
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Sep 05, 2012
Heidi
rated it
4 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
2012,
thriller-mystery
Loved the ending!
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Todd Ritter was born in rural Pennsylvania to a bank teller mother and a father who dabbled in taxidermy. He grew up among "Bambi"-esque forests and wide-open fields straight out of the cropduster scene from "North by Northwest." Appropriately, his two biggest influences are Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock. He lives in suburban New Jersey.
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