The Kill Room

A Lincoln Rhyme Novel

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Jay Snyder, January LaVoy, Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

It was a "million-dollar bullet," a sniper shot delivered from over a mile away. Its victim was no ordinary mark: he was a United States citizen, targeted by the United States government, and assassinated in the Bahamas.

The nation's most renowned investigator and forensics expert, Lincoln Rhyme, is drafted to investigate. While his partner, Amelia Sachs, traces the victim's steps in Manhattan, Rhyme leaves the city to pursue the sniper himself. As details of the case start to emerge, the pair discovers that not all is what it seems.

When a deadly, knife-wielding assassin begins systematically eliminating all evidence-including the witnesses-Lincoln's investigation turns into a chilling battle of wits against a cold-blooded killer.

©2013 Jeffery Deaver (P)2013 Hachette Audio

Not a big fan of multiple narrators

While the story was good I did not like how the narration of Amelia and Lincoln and a few others were done by others than the main narrator. I hope they don’t do that again because I love the Lincoln Rhyme novels.

Another hit!

What made the experience of listening to The Kill Room the most enjoyable?

Although at first I found the multiple readers distracting, as I got used to them I thoroughly enjoyed the variety of voices.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Definately!

great book

i would recommend it to anyone who enjoys mystery
books and suspense novels
this is one of the good ones of the series

Multiple narrators = multiple things to hate

Usually l love the diversion of a Lincoln Rhyme novel. The multiple narrators distracted from the story in this case. In particular I hated the voice for Amelia and the way her dialogue popped in and always sounded like it didn't flow.

Primary narrator was fine but multiple voices did a disservice to a story that was already not one of my favorite in the series.

Good Story Overshadowed by Poor Narration

If you can get past the poor choice of narrators --you will find a pretty decent story/mystery. I had to really concentrate on what was going on - and ignore the young and inappropriate voices for Lincoln and Amelia to get though this one. I agree with other reviewers that one narrator would probably have made this a more enjoyable listen.

One bullet is shot through the window of a hotel room in the Bahamas--three people are killed. Thus starts the mystery which includes a vast array of issues.

An aggressive ADA brings Lincoln and his team in to help with her investigation into possible government corruption and abuse of power. Had the people in the hotel deserved to be killed for crimes against the U.S.- - -or were there other unknown reasons? Who else might be responsible? These aren't the only targets, and in the aftermath and coverup, bodies start to pile up to wipe out any witnesses. Some of them meet their deaths in especially brutal ways from one of the "clean up" crew who is a superb cook and thinks about food most of the time. He copies recipes from the most classy restaurants and prepares the meals only for himself -and sometimes an unfortunate victim. He loves to use his extremely expensive carving knives (the same ones used in his fancy dinners) to torture his victims to obtain information before they are killed. This guy seemed a little over the top- cook and killer in one??? Sounds a bit like Hannibal Lecter -except he doesn't eat them.

There are some moral issues to sort out--when does the end justify the means when it comes to protection by the government? The reasons go back and forth, and the ending wraps up the question maybe a little too neatly for this reviewer.

Deaver has woven a good mystery and thrown in enough twists and turns to keep things interesting. Just be aware that the narration could put you off--unless you can get past the first couple of hours--that's about how long it took me to just pay attention to the story.

A disservice to j.deaver

Jeffrey Deaver's novels are a bit formula driven, but I enjoy them and they always improve on a repeat listen. I won't be able to do this with this very over produced version. It should be recorded again by one narrator. Agree with other reviews about the feeling that voices were spliced in. This so disrupts the listening/narration experience that it's hard to follow the story which is complicated further by a different kind of mystery/thriller for these characters. I always feel uncomfortable when rating a favorite writer as average, as their average most certainly almost always would be considered excellent for a less talented author. I would recommend that Deaver fans buy the book, it still may be an average novel by Deaver fans but worth reading.

Good story- bad reading

I enjoyed the story- but the reading was awful! I'm fairly certain the the voice for Amelia is the same woman who is in my navigation. I kept waiting for her to tell me to turn right in 300 feet. :-)

Intriguing

Somewhat entertaining but I felt like there were to many characters to follow. The last few chapters where like a whole new story.

Well Written

What a pleasure it is to be reunited with an old favorite character. AND what a pleasure it is to read a well written, well defined, grammatically correct, and cohesive story. The logical deductions are easily followed and full of surprises, as always.
The narrators were superb.

Attention Grabber

Great listen definitely held my attention, Lincoln Rhyme novels rarely disappoint. Narration was great another solid piece of work by Jeffrey Deever.