女検死官ジェシカ・コラン 魔王のささやき

Jessica Coran #6

by Robert W. Walker, ロバート・ウォーカー, Uryū Chizuko (translator)

女検死官と〈炎熱妖怪〉との死闘を描く、シリーズ第六弾！

ジェシカは、ホテルの部屋で一本の電話を受ける。若い女の声で、裸にされ縛られて、これから殺されるという。続いて起こる悲鳴と苦悶の声、そして背後の笑い声……。これこそ生きながら犠牲者の肉体を焼き尽くす残虐犯による連続殺人事件の始まりだった！そして最終の標的はジェシカその人らしい。

Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Fiction

552 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Aka Geoffrey Caine, Glenn Hale, Evan Kingsbury, Stephen Robertson

Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold--the Windy City one and the Southern one--all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.

Reviews

[maria davidson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book

Really enjoyed this story. Well written and definitely worth taking the time to read. Easy reading an well rounded characters. Would recommend to anyone who likes this genre.

[Paula Aho · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too repetitive about opinions and facts. Only need to say it once. A choppy read, not smooth. Felt like a first novel.

[Dale · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was very disappointed in this particular Robert Walker book. I did not consider it a thriller at all like his other books. He spent too much time with needless detail. Too verbose. And there was very little leadup to the serial killer's killings. The ending was flat without any explantion of "why" the killer turned out the way he did. If this had been the first Robert Walker book I picked up, it would be the last.

[Hildegart · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've enjoyed reading his 'Instinct' books and got a really good laugh from one of them. I don't remember which one it was, but he wrote about the character going to Medford, Oregon. I was born and raised there and I laughed when he was describing the police officer as a southern boy. Um, we aren't southerners here. I had a friend read that section and she, too, laughed. Still a good book, though. Just wish I could remember which one it was!

[Lotte_ladybird · Rating 4 out of 5]

The prologue was way too long but as soon as I got through it and the "real" story started it was really good. Well written and interesting

[Allison Tolhurst · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is apparently the sixth in a series. It was ok, but I'm not going to bother reading the previous five.

[Elaine]

Book 6 in the Jessica Coran series

[Leigh Mitchell · Rating 2 out of 5]

Found this one a hard slog, there's too much wittering on about details.