- Paperback: 370 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books (Jan 5 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0812550811
- ISBN-13: 978-0812550818
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 23 g
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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From Publishers Weekly
A pair of plucky heroines adds interest to this otherwise predictable, and graphically violent, suspense novel by Heller (Maximum Impact), an investigative reporter for the St. Petersburg Times. Eugene Rickey, it's quickly revealed, is a serial killer. In his day job, he is a talented and conscientious Tampa, Fla., handyman?a master of the building trades with a solid reputation. But he is also a homicidal maniac who tortures his female victims before killing them. The police and county sheriff's experts follow a series of clues and red herrings as Rickey is shown stalking his targets, first a TV newswoman and then a female architect. Heller's vivid imagination of this demented man's psyche is offset, unfortunately, by some clunky clues and distracting subplots, including one involving sexual harassment in the newsroom. While the author writes taut, powerful prose, moreover, readers may be turned off by the uses to which she puts it: the opening chapter, for all its skillful renderings, is little more than a sustained exercise in literary sadism.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Only after all the doors and windows have been locked is it safe to begin reading Handyman. Eugene Rickey is an honest and dependable jack-of-all-trades. For fun and relaxation, though, he rapes, tortures, and kills. The first chapter of this novel is so realistically bloody and gruesome that it could turn the most ardent opponent of the death penalty into an advocate. Thankfully, this is the tale's only episode of out-and-out gore. The rest of the book describes the fast-paced hunt for the Handyman by Det. Benjamin Britton and Cynthia Diamond, a television journalist. Heller's (Maximum Impact, Forge, 1993) writing is consistently good, and she kindly gives the reader an occasional respite from fear through her subplots. Highly recommended, but read only with the lights on.?Dawn L. Anderson, North Richland Hills P.L., Tex.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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too graphic for me,
This review is from: Handyman (Paperback)
the first chapter in this book was very disturbing to me. which is saying a lot I had to come back to it a second time in order to finish the book. the story is good if you can get past the violence I guess.
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Music To Their Ears.,
By Betty Burks "Betty Burks" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Handyman (Hardcover)
Based on the James Taylor song, "The Handyman," the serial killer seeks out ladies of the night and the homeless at first to cut out their hearts as he tortured them. Then he killed a kindergarten teacher and a doctor while raping her in her office, thus leaving his DNA. He is deranged and blames his compulsion to kill women on his mother: "You didn't think I was man enough." He became known as the Heartbreak Killer.He decides to move a bit higher and go after a news anchor on the television station there in Tampa, Florida, Cynthia Diamond, soothe his disaster, he really does become a handyman and sings that song constantly to stalk his next victim, a young mother of a little boy who owns an apartment complex and he is doing the contracting. Karin Janecek became so tried of hearing that song, she would turn radio off until she realizes that she is the next intended victim. Like Tony Perkins in the movie, 'Psycho,' he blames his compulsion to kill these women on his mother and names his knife 'Opal' after her. Lightning and God's will deprives him from throwing the child out of the 22nd floor window before he can cut the heart out of Karin. "The more confused they are, the more vulnerable." His kick is to watch the fear develop to a crescendo to the ultimate moment they die at his hands. She didn't know the fate coming to her. She saves the baby with CPR and her husband and the police arrive in the nick of time. Thus is the end of the Handyman,the serial killer. Sometimes in real life, you get lucky. He had left souvenirs of each victim in his apartment. Some things within the power to change you can control and a lot more you can't. Karin takes comand of the things she can change and decides that eventually it comes time to move on. However, she and her busband, David, decide to stay in the place they have created and let the past die an easy death.
1.0 out of 5 stars
too graphic for me,
By misty vauble - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Handyman (Paperback)
the first chapter in this book was very disturbing to me. which is saying a lot I had to come back to it a second time in order to finish the book. the story is good if you can get past the violence I guess.
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