The Fifth to Die

By: J. D. Barker

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Graham Winton

Detective Porter and the team have been pulled from the hunt for Anson Bishop, the Four Monkey Killer, by the feds. When the body of a young girl is found beneath the frozen waters of Jackson Park Lagoon, she is quickly identified as Ella Reynolds, missing three weeks. But how did she get there? The lagoon froze months earlier. More baffling? She's found wearing the clothes of another girl, missing less than two days.

While the detectives of Chicago Metro try to make sense of the quickly developing case, Porter secretly continues his pursuit of 4MK, knowing the best way to find Bishop is to track down his mother. When the captain finds out about Porter's activities, he's suspended, leaving his partners, Clair and Nash, to continue the search for the new killer alone.

Obsessed with catching Bishop, Porter follows a single grainy photograph from Chicago to the streets of New Orleans and stumbles into a world darker than he could have possibly imagined, where he quickly realizes that the only place more frightening than the mind of a serial killer is the mind of the mother from which he came.

©2018 J. D. Barker (P)2018 Recorded Books

Excellent dark suspense mystery!

The Fourth Monkey, Book 1 in this Detective SAM Porter series, was one of my favorite suspense mysteries of 2017. I like THE FIFTH TO DIE a lot but not as much as The Fourth Monkey. I struggled whether to rate the novel 4 or 5 stars and settled on 4 stars. Narration is outstanding.

Best Listen Ever!

Can't wait for the next installment in this series and the narrator Edward Ballerinii is OUTSTANDING AS ALWAYS.

So good

Wow - all I can say is wow..................I read all three books in 36 hours - I could not stop.

Better than the first

In my first review I said I had figured it out before the end. Then book 2 came. Wow! This series continues to twist, turn, and evolve. Excellent listen. I invented reasons to listen. This series brings complete satisfaction as you listen.

Back and forth but neatly tying all together

The suspense read same book as my daughter our own little book club im glad so we could discuss characters