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Title: Hello, Darkness by Sandra Brown ISBN: 0-7432-4552-0 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.79 (48 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Serial Killer, Whodunit, Five Star Read
Comment: Sandra Brown has done the next to the impossible. She's given us a serial killer, shown us what he looks like, given us plenty of info about him, made plenty sure we know he's a bottom dweller into not quite right, kinky sex. But that's not what is so amazing about this novel. We meet this slug right from the get go, but we don't figure out who he is till the end of the book, so I guess you could say HELLO, DARKNESS is a mystery. But wait, it reads like a pulse-pounding, page-turning thriller. Stop! There might be a touch of romance in it as well.
Nightshift DJ Paris Gibson gets a call from one of her listeners, a guy who calls himself Valentino, just before she goes off shift. He tells her he's kidnapped his girlfriend and he's going to kill her in three days. Paris has seventy-two hours to save the girl. Of course she goes straight to the cops, where she happens to run into Criminal Shrink Dean Malloy, a man from her past.
Paris, Malloy and the police do their level best to track the kidnapper, but Ms. Brown has made it a bit difficult by giving them more than one suspect. Is it Malloy's sassy son, a back-talking, boozing brat who belongs to the same internet sex club as the missing girl? Is it the perverted porno perusing, pedophiliac who yearns to peak under his patient's skirts as he's drilling their teeth? Is it the cop assigned to computer fraud that's been secretly sampling the wares of the girls in the high school sex club? And can Paris and company catch the kidnapping killer before he gets Paris, because you know he's after her, else why did he bother to call in the first place.
The beauty of this book is that I was convinced the bad guy was the dentist, then I shifted my attention to the kid, then the cop, then back to the dentist, and so on and so on. Ms. Brown gives us three suspects, makes them all look guilty, then guiltier. What a great book.
Ken Douglas, Underpaid Writer
Rating: 5
Summary: A great "who done it".
Comment: Sandra Brown has written yet another "I can't put it down" thriller. Right up to the very last chapter, the listener is kept in suspense about who Valentino really is. In fact, this listener vacillated between two characters. I was just sure who it was through most of the book but in the last chapters, I knew that character hadn't "done it". Then I couldn't make up my mind between two other characters. But I won't say more and spoil the suspense!
Paris Gibson has a late night radio show full of love songs in Austin, Texas. She keeps to herself and does not allow her public to know more about her than what her voice sounds like. One night, she receives a call from Valentino telling Paris she is the cause of his being jilted. He also tells her he plans on revenge by killing the girl within 72 hours.
Paris immediately goes to the Austin PD where Dean Mallory is called in to consult with Sergeant Curtis. Dean is a psychologist and has a past with Paris. Between the three of them, they must work fast to find the girl and prevent her death. All suspicion is directed at a dentist who has a prior record for sexual misconduct. Yet, as time goes on, they all begin to wonder if this dentist really is Valentino. Dean's son, Gavin becomes involved in the investigation and at one point, is even a suspect. But in the end, Gavin is the one who holds the final clue leading to the identity and capture of Valentino.
Victor Slezak reads "Hello Darkness" and has the voice to add the inflections and tones that give this audio book the suspense it deserves. Grab a copy and you won't want to put it down until you also know "who done it".
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good Mystery
Comment: HELLO, DARKNESS is typical Sandra Brown romance formula with a mysterious backdrop. Readers are warned of the usual sexual undertones and overtones, explicit detail thereto, and general adult content and language.
Paris Gibson is a radio DJ and she attracks a madman after her. It was quite interesting trying to figure out who the culprit was. At times I was finding myself questiong if it was the male lead!
Paris had lived with the guilt of loving her fiance's bestfriend years before. When the events unfolded and her fiance wound up helpless and in need of around the clock care, Paris offered herself up out of guilt and cared for him until his eventual demise. Somehow, this didn't quite impress upon me any empathy for Paris. Perhaps she was too much of a martyr?
Years later, the bestfriend reappears in her life and is a part of the team tasked with tracking her stalker. Sparks fly from every page as usual, but it is intersting just the same if not educational. Unfortunately, this formula has been done a hundered times in romance novels.
Overall, this was a pretty good mystery that I can recommend for a good guessing game.
Reviewed by: P. Brook
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