The Profiler's Daughter

Sky Stone, Book 1

By: P. M. Steffen

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

A grisly murder. A six-year-old eyewitness. A gun from the grave.

The Profiler's Daughter is a psychologically haunting thriller that combines murder mystery, love triangle, and family intrigue in one satisfying page burner.

Sky Stone was born into the wealth and privilege of Boston's oldest Brahmin family but chooses instead to follow in the footsteps of her deceased father, legendary FBI profiler Monk Stone. In the chilly morning hours before the Boston Marathon, when a beautiful university student is found strangled and mutilated, her body left at the base of Heartbreak Hill, Sky returns from self-imposed exile to investigate. Thirty-six hours into the investigation, Sky's world turns upside down when she is fired from the Homicide team. They pin the murder on an innocent man, forcing Sky into a life-threatening game of cat and mouse with the real killer. From the stately mansions of Beacon Hill to the flat scrubland of central Texas, Sky keeps the reader on a razor's edge, culminating in a no-holds-barred shoot-out.

The Profiler's Daughter, the first in the Sky Stone Thriller series, introduces a moody, enigmatic, and brilliant female sleuth with the fierce bite of Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander. As adeptly written as Martin Cruz Smith's complex Arkady Renko novels, this thriller offers an intriguing plot, richly detailed characters, and an astonishing conclusion guaranteed to leave the listener begging for more.

©2012 Paula Moser Steffen (P)2014 Paula Moser Steffen

Loved it...Waiting for the second book

Would you listen to The Profiler's Daughter again? Why?

I have listened to it more than once.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

It did, the story line didn't drag

What does Gabrielle de Cuir bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Her ability to capture the speech patterns of the region

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

Yes!

Any additional comments?

Who is the father of Sky's baby? How could you leave us hanging like that:-)) I'm kind of rooting for Butch.

GREAT SURPRISE~~

Would you consider the audio edition of The Profiler's Daughter to be better than the print version?

I NEVER read books

What did you like best about this story?

The little twists that it has in it to make you second guess yourself.

Have you listened to any of Gabrielle de Cuir’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

no

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

no

Any additional comments?

This is a great book to listen to - I didn't know what to think with it being the first one from this author but I got a great surprise and am looking forward to the next book!! The ending has an unanswered question I REALLY want to know the answer to!!

It was just ok!

When I began the book, I truly did not like the narrator...for some reason she spoke so slowly and raspy… I truly believe it was her voice choice for this character that made her sound dumb ditzy and lame!! The more I got used to the narrator, the more I realized that the book just did not develop the character good enough. it was hard to tell whether she was a dumb idiot or a smart profiler but I never truly accepted that she was smart enough to be a profiler!! If I had a return left I would have returned this one!!

Annual Read!

I enjoy this book every tme I listen to it. The Profiler's Daughter has mystery, twists, love, pets, hope, money, beauty, details, smarts, chuckles, suspense, action.... I could go on and on. I hope one day there will be a Book 2. Love the narrator.

The Profiler's Daughter

The book was very riveting... I was disappointed in the end because you didn't tell us what the baby's gender was. Or who the father was. I really enjoyed listening to the book.

Didn't care for the reader

Would you consider the audio edition of The Profiler's Daughter to be better than the print version?

No idea, but I might have enjoyed it better reading than listening to it. I did not care for the reader at all.

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

It is ok, but didn't keep me on the edge of my seat

Would you be willing to try another one of Gabrielle de Cuir’s performances?

probably not

Too many characters

I stuck with this book because I always finish them, but tempted to put it down many times. There were too many characters and very little depth on any of them. Some of the male voices were almost silly. It really felt like a "first book". I will try her again because most of these authors get better, but I hope she finds someone else to do the recording. This is one of those books that could have used more than one narrator - as Baldacci seems to do in many of his books.

Not very good.

I'm sorry to say I didn't find this book any more than average, and that might be pushing it. The main character, who I think we are supposed to have some empathy for, does really selfish and stupid things. The voices used by the narrator are irritating, and I lost interest in the story. I give it three stars only because I actually listened to the end.

Sterotypical and ordinary

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Story is typical and average. She's a beautiful profiler overcoming prior trauma struggling to come back to work. The detective on the case is her good looking ex-boyfriend (husband? - I couldn't get far enough to find out). There's "tension" between them. He touches her, leans in too close, calls her babe - very unprofessional. This is more like a cheap romance book than a detective novel.

Has The Profiler's Daughter turned you off from other books in this genre?

Yes, wouldn't try another from another series!

Have you listened to any of Gabrielle de Cuir’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No, but narrator seemed good. It was the story that was the problem.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No, nothing special.

Story good. Narrator annoying!

Story is good. Narrator's voice is pleasant but she does that droning tone and trail off at the end thing that has replaced Valley Girl talk among some women. It's a sing song, consistent emphasis on the same portion of a sentence that becomes monotonous and like walking down a stairway where the same foot hits the step and attracts your attention. She doesn't do it with the dialogue, so this is a habit that could be corrected. It's annoying and distracting. I had to increase speed to 1.25 and at one point nearly quit listening. However, the story was good enough to power through this narrator's habits. She needs to examine this pattern of inflection. Her voice and characterization is fine in the dialogue so she could fix it. Needs a voice coach to identify the pattern and then stop doing it.