Shiver

A Rick Bentz/Reuben Montoya Novel, Book 3

By: Lisa Jackson

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

Detective Reuben "Diego" Montoya is back in New Orleans. Thanks to years of working with the dark side of society, his youthful swagger is gone, replaced by straightforward determination. He'll need it, because a serial killer is turning The Big Easy into his personal playground. The victims are killed in pairs - no connection, no apparent motive, no real clues. Somebody's playing a sick game, and Montoya intends to beat him at it.

His only lead is the ex-wife of one of the victims. Abby Chastain is a woman haunted by painful secrets. Twenty years ago she watched in horror as her mother, a patient at the Our Lady of Virtues Mental Hospital, plunged through a window to her death. Abby has always dreaded that she too would one day go insane...especially now, back in this town, where she's begun to feel watched, as if the devil himself is scraping a fingernail along her spine. Something about Abby - her spirit and her honest fear - gets to Montoya. His gut tells him his prime suspect is innocent, just like it's telling him there's something significant about the once-grand hospital now decaying in a gloomy thicket of ancient live oaks. Abby Chastain can help unlock the mystery - if only Montoya can get her to trust him enough to face the ghosts of her past.

As more bodies are found in gruesome, staged scenarios and the FBI moves in, Montoya's in a desperate race to find a killer whose crimes are getting more terrifying, and closer all the time. Plunging deep into a nightmare investigation will uncover a shocking revelation - a deadly connection between Abby and Montoya and an asylum where unspeakable crimes were committed, evil once roamed free, and a human predator may still wait. For the past is never completely gone. Its sins must be avenged, its wrongs righted. And this time Detective Reuben Montoya may pay the price...

©2006 Lisa Jackson (P)2006 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Totally Awesome book!

I think I either listened or read this book twice! It's a very exciting thrilling suspenseful mystery!

shiver

It had me shivering as usual ! Anxiously waiting for her next one to come out!

My Thoughts

Once again doing a Lisa Jackson thrillers marathon, listening again to the Bentz, Montoya series for the 6th time. Love everything about this book. The characters the villains, the suspense, the romance!
it's all thrown together so well!!

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Infuriating Storyline

This story was annoying. Everyone's repeated and constant second guessing obvious troubling signs was infuriating.

Pretty Good

Lisa Jackson is one of the few women thriller writers I find entertaining. While this book is not one of her best, it is decent and worth listening to.

Recommend

Loved it! Would recommend it to anyone that likes or loves Lisa Jackson's books.

Avoid at all costs

Robotic, monotonous performance of an amateurish, soap-opera-cliché filled story. This audiobook has actually given me anxiety to choose unknown titles on Audible - it was THAT bad.

So Bad on So Many Levels

If you want to listen to a smart, sexy, engaging novel that deals with serial killers, DON'T LISTEN to this novel. Reuben Montoya is truly hot, hot, hot (where ARE these guys???), and I wasn't sure of "whodunit" until near the end, but everything else? Formulaic and cliche. In fact, I think this author consulted the dictionary of cliches: (imagine quotation marks around the following) figment of her imagination, the flash of white teeth, when the going gets tough, the tough get going, too young to die, shake uncontrollably, tears burned [or sprang to] her eyes, This guy's dangerous. Don't worry . . . So am I, There but for the grace of God go I, nerves stretched tight as piano wires, figment of the imagination, brooding eyes,stopped dead in her tracks, icing on the cake, and so on. And don't forget the forms of erections, usually against the back. I'm especially troubled by Faith's rapes and her responses. And WOW! Talk about simplistic thinking? One of the characters, who knows she has been abducted by the serial killer, refers to him as a monster, a lunatic, a murdering psycho, and a creep Well. Yes. He's a serial killer. This could have been an interesting contrast in psychopathic behavior, obsession, lust, passion, and desire. But it's not.

So. If you want a smart, sexy, engaging novel that deals with serial killers, listen to

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and then be sure to listen to The Girl Who Played with Fire.

No cliches. No formula. Just good, smart writing, writing that will make you wish the novel didn't end.

Or, you can listen to some Robicheaux (Burke) or

early Scarpetta (Cornwell).

If you want something lighter, listen to Lust, Loathing, and a Little Lip Gloss (Davis).

Spend your hours, money, and credits on something that deserves it.

Hard to finish

Listening became a chore.......


Main character had no common sense.....She is being watched/stalked, has a gun stolen from her house and wonders if she should call the police?

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