Someone is killing wealthy Manhattanites. One by one, the victims are discovered in luxurious high-rise apartments-bound, gagged, brutally murdered in the "safety" of their own homes. The killer's modus operandi is as horrifying as anything NYPD Detectives Ben Stack and Rica Lopez have ever seen.
As Stack and Lopez investigate the cruel deaths, they have no idea that they are being watched from the shadows-observed by a cunning murderer picking up all the clues necessary to stay one step ahead of the police while perfecting a deadly craft. And when a pattern slowly emerges, the detectives realize that the killings aren't the random acts of a maniac, but the personal campaign of someone bent on retribution...someone who's been watching closely and knows their case too well.
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What is your favorite part of the book where the author describes a part in the book that was your favorite?
ReplyDeletesounds like a fairly gruesome book. Who is your favorite character, and why are you attracted to the book?
ReplyDeleteI like the book because there is murder. My favorite character is Stack because he actually has a purpose in the story.
DeleteSo far, it's good. I like the detail of the death. I don't like Rica...she is by far the worst character in the entire book. She may be one of the main characters, but she's still annoying. The way that the author describes her is probably why I don't like her...at all.
ReplyDeleteKahla, I'd really like to see a more detailed post. How did the author describe her that made you not like her? What did this description trigger for you to make you feel this way would be a good place to start. Why do you think the author describe a character in that way?
ReplyDeleteI'm teaching myself to like her. She is actually useful, I just don't want her to be. She does help Stack with the mystery and she can be persuasive (in the wrong ways, that's why I don't like her).
ReplyDeleteAnother murder. Amazing. The suspect is Larry Chips, who is entertaining enough. He thinks weird things and he acts weird. The author made him sound like the murderer, but I really don't think he is. He was moving gas into smaller containers which could be managed with ease. The other characters describe him as a firebug (probably doing drugs as well since he shot at Rica when she busted into his apartment). He's entertaining, weird and suspicious, I like him.
ReplyDeleteThe "Torcher" as the murderer is called in the newspaper, just committed another murder. That's four or five murders so far. The first guy, second guy, third lady, kid and her mother, and now this lady. It's a good book that every child should read.
Have any of the detectives if there are in the book are they getting closer to solving who the murderer is. Also how does the murderer kill his victims, is there a special way he kills his victims, does he leave a hint behind or something?
ReplyDeleteNot really. They have a couple suspects and that's it. The murderer (The Torcher) kills his victims by burning them alive. The Torcher does feel guilt because there have been some scene where the Torcher is thinking and feeling. No hints at all.
DeleteThis book is beginning to get boring but I'm going to keep reading. It's the same thing over and over again. There was just a part where one of my favorite characters kids just died. They were only a couple weeks old even when they died from smoke inhalation. The husband climbed out of a window from four stories up, the wife probably fainted, while the dead twins cushioned her fall. I hate it when the kids die in good books.
ReplyDeleteI'm done. I give up. I do want to find out who is the killer, I don't want to read that far. Now, it's all just police work which bores me. The police work is the same reason that I stopped reading, Every Dead Thing by John Connolly. I was just boring police stuff after a while. That's really the only reason I'm done. The characters were alright, the plot was fine and the description was good. I think that I'm starting to dislike mysteries altogether, not just cop things.
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