Helpful Score: 6
Gruesome and gory with plot twists a plenty. Shocking surprise ending. Everything a good serial killer/police procedural/thriller is supposed to be. Great read!
Helpful Score: 6
Awesome! This is the best murder mystery that I've read in a very long time. I was convinced that I knew who the serial killer was about 2/3 of the way through the book, but I couldn't have been more wrong. Very thrilling and intelligent.
The most terrifing thriller since the Silence of the Lambs.
Helpful Score: 2
This book is a debut effort from this author, but you certainly can't tell! He writes this thriller like a seasoned pro. I have not read a book this gripping and exciting in a long time.
The crime scenes are gory, the back story of the main character is incredibly interesting and damning at the same time, and the killer is one of the scariest I've read.
I will definitely be on the lookout for works from this author in the future.
The crime scenes are gory, the back story of the main character is incredibly interesting and damning at the same time, and the killer is one of the scariest I've read.
I will definitely be on the lookout for works from this author in the future.
Helpful Score: 1
From Publishers Weekly
Scotland Yard's Redfern Metcalfe "gets inside killers' heads and reels them in." But Britain's latest serial killer (an evil genius dubbed "Silver Tongue" for his grisly technique and distinctive "calling card") is the worst Red's ever seen, leaving the hardened investigator shaken to his core. While Red and his hand-picked team of detectives concoct half-baked theories and chase shadows, the elusive Silver Tongue taunts them by racking up victims. With no forensic evidence to go on, Red is forced to play an excruciating game of "wait and see" with the killerAsending his personal and professional life into a downward spiral. Starling's debut sustains a sense of fear and uneasiness by seamlessly moving between Red's increasing obsession with the manhunt and his haunting memories of guilt-inducing past misdeeds. When it seems the case is close to resolution, Starling manages to step up the already considerable tension, and the simultaneous story lines dramatically and unexpectedly converge.
Scotland Yard's Redfern Metcalfe "gets inside killers' heads and reels them in." But Britain's latest serial killer (an evil genius dubbed "Silver Tongue" for his grisly technique and distinctive "calling card") is the worst Red's ever seen, leaving the hardened investigator shaken to his core. While Red and his hand-picked team of detectives concoct half-baked theories and chase shadows, the elusive Silver Tongue taunts them by racking up victims. With no forensic evidence to go on, Red is forced to play an excruciating game of "wait and see" with the killerAsending his personal and professional life into a downward spiral. Starling's debut sustains a sense of fear and uneasiness by seamlessly moving between Red's increasing obsession with the manhunt and his haunting memories of guilt-inducing past misdeeds. When it seems the case is close to resolution, Starling manages to step up the already considerable tension, and the simultaneous story lines dramatically and unexpectedly converge.
