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Book Review of Darker Than Night

Darker Than Night
Darker Than Night
Author: John Lutz
Book Type: Audio CD
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âThe Night Prowlerâ is something of a fetish killer. He relives a powerful incident fifteen years earlier. He stalks his preyâseemingly happily married couplesâfocusing his attention on the wife. He leaves anonymous gifts: expensive jackets, candy, gourmet jam, roses. He does all this as a twisted foreplay to his end game, which is the violent death of both partners.

Frank Quinn is a disgraced former NYPD detective who was chased from the force with nothing except his pension. He molders in a decrepit Manhattan apartment. His ex-wife and daughter are gone. His reputation is broke, and his only comfort is from the bottle. Everything changes when he is approached by the upwardly mobile and very ambitious Harley Renz. Renz has an offer; find The Night Prowler and get his job back, and maybe his reputation, too. Good Story.