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A cold case grows hot again in Gardner's sixth high-octane page-turner, a romantic thriller that features rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy. Kimberly is the daughter of Pierce Quincy, former FBI profiler turned PI, last seen in The Next Accident. She's a tough, troubled young woman still recovering from the murders of her mother and sister six years earlier. During week nine of the FBI Academy's 16-week training program in Virginia, she discovers the body of a young woman who looks like her late sister. Since the corpse has been dumped on a secured Marine base, the Naval Criminal Investigation Service is in charge, but determined Kimberly soon takes a leave of absence so she can team up with Michael "Mac" McCormack, visiting Georgia Bureau of Investigations Special Agent, along with her father and his partner, Rainie Connor, to prevent another death. Mac receives taunting mail and cell phone messages ("planet dying... animals weeping... rivers screaming... can't you hear it? Heat kills") that lead him to suspect a serial eco-killer who last struck in Georgia three years earlier, leaving seven dead women and one survivor. Sparks fly between Kimberly and Mac as they rush to rescue the eco-killer's latest victim, Tina Krahn. Gardner offers riveting glimpses of Tina's struggle to survive in an environmentally hazardous locale. With tight plotting, an ear for forensic detail and a dash of romance, this is a truly satisfying sizzler in the tradition of Tess Gerritsen and Tami Hoag.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient de la Hardcover édition.

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It has been a while since a vicious murderer killed Kimberly Quincy's mother and sister and put a gun to Kimberly's own head, but rage and guilt are Kim's constant companions, isolating her even as they toughen her in the struggle to become an FBI agent. After she literally stumbles on the body of a woman who looks very like her dead sister, her tightly controlled emotions spill into a furious search for a serial killer that compromises her career. In concert with an equally dedicated (and attractive) Georgia law enforcement officer, her estranged father (a former FBI profiler), and a handful of forensics specialists, she pursues clues to solve a deadly game, the prize for which is a kidnapped young woman. The forensic detail is great, and Gardner works in some genuinely creepy moments, especially when she zeroes in on the victim struggling against horrific odds. A tighter focus and a trimmed-down cast of characters would have made the reading smoother, but that won't stop Gardner's fans. Stephanie Zvirin
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Clock Ticking, Janv. 23 2007
Par Craobh Rua "Craobh Rua" (N. Ireland) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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"The Killing Hour", first published in 2003, is the sixth novel Lisa Gardner has published under her own name. She has also published twelve other novels under the name "Alicia Scott".

The book's villain is labelled the Eco-Killer, a serial killer who first struck in Georgia in 1998. Generally, his actions are apparently triggered by a heat-wave : he'd kidnap young women in pairs and kill the first - leaving the body in places where it'd be easily found. The second victim, however, wouldn't be so much killed as left to die in an inhospitable environment. While the killer leaves clues to the second girl's location on the first girl's body, the second girl isn't necessarily going to be saved. Initially, the authorities don't realise they're being played with and tested - yet, even when they do realise, the clues are very obscure. The killer became known as the Eco-Killer because, with each kidnapping and killing, he'd send letters to a local newspaper. Each one would contain the phrases "clock ticking", "planet dying", animals weeping", "rivers screaming" and - most appropriately, given what he was doing - "heat kills". Eventually, in 2000, the crimes appear to stop with twins Nora Ray and Mary Lynn Watts apparently being the last victims. While Mary Lynn was killed, the GBI were able to decipher the clues in time to rescue Nora Ray. Unfortunately, they couldn't find the Eco Killer himself.

Three years later, and Kimberley Quincy has been accepted into the FBI Academy at Quantico. She's in the ninth week of a sixteen week course and, despite the fact that she's been working towards this since her mother and sister were killed, she's still finding it tough. The bruises and lack of sleep are only part of it though : Kimberley seems very much a loner, apparently determined not to make any friends. She also has a very strained relationship with her father, Pierce Quincy - the legendary FBI profiler. Unfortunately for Kimberley, her training's about to get worse : during a training run in the middle of a heat-wave, she stumbles across the body of a murdered girl.

Although the investigation will, officially, be run by the NCIS, Kimberley just can't keep her nose out of it. Luckily, she has Special Agent Michael McCormack to help her out - McCormack works with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and investigated the Eco Killer's spate of murders there. I6t's always bothered him they never caught the killer and he's at Quantico hoping for whatever help he can get. To begin with, he wants to talk to a forensic linguist about the Eco Killer's letters. Such convenient timing, really...

This is an excellent book, one of the best murder-mystery novels I've read in a long time. I also wondered, at one point, if Gardner was a closet Chris Carter fan. There's a description of a basement corridor if the basement corridor that plays host to the Behavioral Sciences Unit. One poster advertises a Millennium Conference, while another lineup of agent photographs includes a mugshot of an extraterrestrial. However, while "The Killing Hour" doesn't do conspiracies it would encourage me to read more of Gardner's books.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Keeps you on the edge of your seat!!, Juil 19 2004
This review is from: The Killing Hour (Hardcover)
This is the only book by Lisa Gardner I've read, but if The Killing Hour is any indication of her abilities, I want more. There is really nothing novel about the plot (smart psychopath preys on young women) or the characters (FBI agents, law-enforcement officers, etc.), but the way Gardner plays out both is great. So great in fact that I couldn't stop reading this book. I would tell myself that I was going to read only one more chapter before I went to bed or got to work, but I would end up reading four or five before forcing myself to put it down. (The good thing is that the chapters are short, so you can always read "just one more" and not lose a lot of time.) There are a lot of plot twists and some characters are introduced relatively late in the action, but neither of these things stopped me from trying to figure out who the bad guy was. If you want a good read, The Killing Hour has your name written all over it. Happy reading!!!
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Heatwave madness, Jui 26 2004
Par Beverley Strong (Australia) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Killing Hour (Hardcover)
For three consecutive Summers, a serial killer struck terror into Georgia communities when he kidnapped and murdered pairs of young girls. Then came a respite for a couple of years until a paticulaly persistent heatwave again gripped the Southern states. Once again pairs of young girls disappeared, to be found miles apart and with weird clues upon their bodies. A rookie FBI agent, Kimberley Quincey who was taking part in an intensive training course at Quantico,stumbles across one of the girls bodies and teams up with Special Agent MacMacormack in an all out effort to track down the killer before more nurders can take place. Both Kimberley and Mac are defying proper FBI procedures and are risking both of their careers, but feel passionately that they can't wait for the long, drawn-out rules of procedure to come into action as several more bodies surface and the mthods of killing become more and more bizarre. The final chapters are very exciting and tension filled, making me want to read more by this talented author.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Best read in a long while
Once you start you can't put it down!
Publié le Jui 1 2004 par Niccole L Green

4.0étoiles sur 5 Always looking forward to the next...
I've read all of Lisa Gardner's books, and I continue to look forward to reading the next. The best kind of book is the one you feel you can't put down because you so badly want... Read more
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Another Page Turning Thriller By Ms. Gardner!!
Ms. Gardner has penned yet again another fast-paced, edge or your seat thriller that you will be hard pressed to put down until you've managed to read the final page. Ms. Read more
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Stunning Conclusion
An ingenious killer is on the move again. It's been three years since he's struck. He waits for a heat wave to hit, then kidnaps two girls. Read more
Publié le Mars 22 2004 par N. Sausser

5.0étoiles sur 5 Gripping thriller
FBI New Agent Kimberly Quincy is living her dream. In an attempt to put the murder of her mother and sister behind her, she's training to be an FBI agent. Read more
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Entertaining, but sort of Nancy Drewish
On top of being entertaining, this book was geographically informative (places of interest in Virginia), which puts it above most other novels. Read more
Publié le Fév 29 2004 par ake465

3.0étoiles sur 5 Great Characters and Grisly Crimes
I enjoyed The Killing Hour although not as much as The Survivor's Club which I gave a Five Star review. Read more
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5.0étoiles sur 5 A gripping and descriptive page turner...
This book scared the daylights out of me. Lisa Gardner's descriptive writing techniques do a great job of putting you in the victims shoes. Read more
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Top Shelf
I absolutely devoured this book!! It was original and clever. I appreciate her use of a FEMALE heroine, that is real and believable. Read more
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5.0étoiles sur 5 You won't be able to stop reading!
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