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Title: Hush by Anne Frasier ISBN: 0-451-41031-9 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (40 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: exciting serial killer thriller
Comment: Sixteen years ago in Chicago, the usually lucky Claudia Reynolds had a run of very painful misfortune. She lost her parents and the man she planned to marry dumped her saying he found someone else. A few months later she found out she was pregnant and did her best to take care of herself and the fetus. On the day she was sent home from the hospital after giving birth to a son, The Madonna Murderer killed her baby and almost stabbed her to death.
The detective in charge of the case arranged for Claudia to get a new identity and move to Canada. There she studied and became a psychologist and wrote a book about serial killers. Now the Madonna Murderer has become active again and Ivy Dunlap is asked to join the task force and aid in his capture. Ivy realizes that this was what she was waiting for the last sixteen years to do as she needs to bring her baby's killer to justice even if it means putting her life in jeopardy.
Anne Frasier has written a fast paced and exciting serial killer thriller that is not at all run of the mill. It is told from the perspective of the only person to survive the killings and readers learn that an incident like that needs closure. The heroine's willingness to pursue closure for herself demonstrates a bravery that few possess.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 4
Summary: Amazing debut
Comment: A few months ago I was browsing Amazon.com in search of some new thrillers to read. I was particularly interested in reading debut novels, picking along the way Danielle Girard's "Savage Art" and Bruce Elliot's "Still Life". I was recommended HUSH and after seeing what it was about and reading one or two reviews I decided to give it a shot.
Am I glad I did.
I must say I didn't have much hopes, with the typical storyline of the serial killer on one side and the tough detective aided by the out-of-town female profiler who hides her horrible past. First thing that comes to my mind with novels like these is that the lead characters are going to be living a secret affair by the middle of the novel (this has happened, for example, in Tami Hoag's "Night Sins" and at least two of the books in Kay Hooper's "Shadows" trillogy). Then the suspense is sometimes just opaqued by the romantic element.
Big surprise, that does not happen, and that's just one of the things that make this a great read. Despite of course there ARE some traces of interest between Max and Ivy the novel always keeps the focus on the case and -this being another winner in this novel- on the characters' personal conflicts.
Thus Ivy, Max and the Madonna Murderer are skillfully portrayed, though the best are Max, with the love for a son who doesn't love him back, and the killer, with remarkable glances at his twisted mind.
Other interesting characters are Abraham Sinclair who appears briefly but who I feel I know so much about and Ethan with his teenage conflict with life and the way he feels alone in the world. Yes, Ethan sometimes appears as a selfish brat, but who can deny most teenagers behave like that?
Now, I am not saying this is the best thriller I've ever read. I really haven't thought about which one it is to begin with. But I can undoubtely say it's one of the best I've read this year (along with Jeffery Deaver's "The Bone Collector"). The book in my opinion has a few flaws but the work as a whole more than makes up for them.
I strongly recommend it.
Rating: 4
Summary: dynamite debut
Comment: Serial killer novels are a dime a dozen now, and ones where the killer squares off with his long-time nemesis in law enforcement is getting to be a cliche, but this novel's strong grounding in realistic psychology make this one stand head and shoulders above most. The fact that the killer's motives and actions have a solid basis in psychological fact make them all the more chilling, especially in the scene where he gives profiler Ivy Dunlap a present. There are a few missteps and cliches, especially at the beginning, preventing me from giving this 5 stars, but I still give this a strong recommendation.
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