Lady Killer
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
A serial killer targets a relationship columnist in this mesmerizing tale of romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling–author Meryl Sawyer
Dubbed the “Final Call Killer” because he strangles his victims with a telephone cord, Troy Avery is waiting for his next victim to come along. He’s angry, vengeful, and unstoppable.
Known as the “Love Doctor,” Jessica Crawford is the San FranciscoHerald’s popular relationship expert. Ironic, since her own love life is practically nonexistent, with the exception of a recent fling with an Adonis-like extreme surfer in Hawaii. Jessica has her own ideas about what drives the Final Call Killer to brutally strangle successful women and profiles him in her column.
Hired by the Herald to cover the murders, investigative reporter Cole Rawlings isn’t broadcasting his Kauai tryst with Jessica, but he’s also not hiding his hard feelings toward her for the way she deceived him at his brother’s surfing resort. Still, with Jessica provoking a psychopath whose rage is growing, Cole believes she’ll be the next victim—unless he gets close enough to her to protect her night and day.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Too tame to be a thriller but too lacking in romantic tension to be a romance, this newest offering from Sawyer (Every Waking Moment, etc.) is difficult to categorize. It is a novel of extremes, in one instance depicting the wild world of surfing in Kauai and in another following the intense hunt for a San Francisco serial killer who targets successful women. Although the transition in setting won't jar readers, the change in tone will. Herald newspaper columnist Jessica Crawford first meets Cole Rawlings in Kauai, where she learns that there are two types of orgasms the sexual kind and the surfing kind. The two share a few frenzied moments experiencing both and then go their separate ways, only to meet up at the Herald, where Cole has taken a position as investigative reporter. Though the two are cold toward each other initially, the search for the serial killer brings them together. It's obvious Sawyer has done her homework she throws in a number of superfluous details about notorious killers and the methodology of profiling but her story falls short of riveting. An excess of information about Jessica's work, her friendships, her sad childhood, Cole's extremely sad childhood and the serial killer's hatred of "feminazis" bogs down the story. While some readers will appreciate the sharply drawn characters, others will grow impatient waiting for the suspense to heat up.
