Mania
by:
Craig Larsen (author)
A City Gripped By Fear…Seattle newspaper photographer Nick Wilder has snapped his fair share of gruesome homicide scenes. But when a serial killer dubbed the Street Butcher takes his sick crimes to new depths of depravity, Nick finds the case suddenly getting to him in more ways than one… A...
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A City Gripped By Fear…Seattle newspaper photographer Nick Wilder has snapped his fair share of gruesome homicide scenes. But when a serial killer dubbed the Street Butcher takes his sick crimes to new depths of depravity, Nick finds the case suddenly getting to him in more ways than one… A Killer Who Knows No End…With each new murder Nick is shocked by what he won't soon forget. But the deeper he digs, the closer he gets to his own disturbing pastand the more he must risk to unmask an unpredictable, deranged psychopath. As the motives multiply and the suspects mount, the cold, stark Seattle winter is about to turn even chillier… "Larsen taps into our deepest terrors… A fast and thrilling debut." William Lashner, New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Bone
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780786023127 (0786023120)
Publish date: November 1st 2009
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
The book didn't come together until the end and I was pretty disappointed with it throughout the book. I considered it to be mediocre and forgetable. Once I got to the end, it all clicked. I did plan on giving the book 2 stars, but with the ending, will bump it up to 3
The successful brother of down-and-out photographer Nick Wilder is stabbed on the streets of Seattle while they are on the way home from a club, and Nick, who awoke dazed and partly amnesiac some distance from the scene, finds his story of a deranged homeless man looked at skeptically by the police....
Before I begin, I won this from a Goodreads free-giveaway contest. It got mailed to me from the author (Craig Larsen) and was signed with this in the front: "Tom, Hope you enjoy the read! Craig"I'm putting this up front because, basically, I wouldn't feel comfortable giving this book a bad review if...
Rating: a revolted 3* of fiveI don't think thrillers are all created equal. I think this book is a thriller because there isn't a sales category called "Noir" although, given the rate at which this kind of novel is being published, there soon will be.I wasn't thrilled by the gory, bloody, lovingly d...
This was pretty good for a debut author...an interesting plot with a lot of bouncing around so you're confused about what is actually happening. But...I only gave it 3 stars because despite the bouncing around, the big "whodunnit" starts revealing itself about halfway through the book...I guessed a...