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Killing Season: A Thriller
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New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman delivers an electrifying crime novel of suspense as a young man's obsessive investigation into his sister's death draws him into the path of a sadistic serial killer.

He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him.

The more you know, the more there is to fear...

Three years ago, fifteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing in the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger brother, Ben, could imagine nothing worse than never knowing what happened to her—until, on the first anniversary of her death, he found her body in a shallow grave by the river's edge.

Ben, now seventeen, is relentlessly driven to find answers to Ellen's homicide. Police believe she was the victim of a psychopath known as the Demon. But Ben's analytical mind sees patterns that don't fit, tiny threads and clues that are derived from other unsolved murders he has researched. Despite his all-consuming push for a real solution to the crime, Ben has hit a wall until he gains an unlikely ally - the school's popular new girl, Ro Majors, who has secrets of her own. As the body count rises, a picture emerges of an adversary who is as cunning and methodical and deadlyl. And uncovering the truth may not be enough to keep Ben, Ro and their loved ones safe from a twisted and fixated killer who has nothing left to lose.

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New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman delivers an electrifying crime novel of suspense as a young man's obsessive investigation into his sister's death draws him into the path of a sadistic serial killer.

He went searching for the truth. Now a killer has found him.

The more you know, the more there is to fear...

Three years ago, fifteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing in the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger brother, Ben, could imagine nothing worse than never knowing what happened to her—until, on the first anniversary of her death, he found her body in a shallow grave by the river's edge.

Ben, now seventeen, is relentlessly driven to find answers to Ellen's homicide. Police believe she was the victim of a psychopath known as the Demon. But Ben's analytical mind sees patterns that don't fit, tiny threads and clues that are derived from other unsolved murders he has researched. Despite his all-consuming push for a real solution to the crime, Ben has hit a wall until he gains an unlikely ally - the school's popular new girl, Ro Majors, who has secrets of her own. As the body count rises, a picture emerges of an adversary who is as cunning and methodical and deadlyl. And uncovering the truth may not be enough to keep Ben, Ro and their loved ones safe from a twisted and fixated killer who has nothing left to lose.

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      • premium: True
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      • content: Listeners will find Kellerman's latest thriller a departure from her Decker-Lazarus series. The story focuses on the murder of 17-year-old Ellen Vicksburg and her brother Ben's obsession with finding the killer. Narrator Charlie Thurston does an admirable job of bringing life to a wide range of characters, including Ben, his family and friends, the killer, and the detectives involved in the investigation. Thurston transitions well between these characters while providing each with a distinctive voice. The story itself is compelling, and the ultimate confrontation is satisfying--but listeners must be willing to stick it out for nearly 19 hours to make it to the ending. K.S.M. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
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        Set in fictional River Remez, N.Mex., this overlong suspense novel from bestseller Kellerman (Straight into Darkness) centers on the obsessive quest of nerdy high schooler Ben Vicksburg for the serial killer who murdered his beloved older sister, Ellen, on her way home from school one afternoon two years earlier. Ben found her corpse after months of frantic searching across the state. Fortunately for him, the hot new girl in school, Dorothy “Ro” Majors, is herself scarred by the death of her sister, a cancer victim. A true-crime buff, Ro is also not put off by Ben’s decorating his room with photos of murdered girls who may have been the prey of the man responsible for Ellen’s death. Predictably, he falls for her (“Since Ro had come into his life, it was not surprising that desire had decided to wake up and party”), but their on-again, off-again relationship fails to engage. Alas, their amateur sleuthing isn’t much more interesting than their romance.

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        August 15, 2017
        A curious stand-alone from the creator of Rina Lazarus and Peter Decker (Bone Box, 2017, etc.): a New Mexico teen tracks down clues in the rape and strangling of his older sister three years ago while he faces the pressure and angst common to all high school seniors.The police have never solved the murder of Ellen Vicksburg. Detective Sam Shanks, of River Remez Homicide, suspected Tim Sanchez, who had a crush on Ellen, and tried to link her death to the work of Billy Ray Barnes, the Albuquerque Demon, to no avail. But Ellen's brother, Ben, has never given up. He's still surfing the web for material about similar homicides and meeting regularly with Shanks, who likes the boy but can't help wishing he'd go away. Ben's obsessive focus on his sister's death has naturally taken a toll on his social life, but with the arrival of Dorothy Majors from New York, things seem to take a new turn. Though she's nominally the girlfriend of football star JD Kirk, Ro reaches out to Ben repeatedly, sympathizing with his loss, taking him seriously in a way his other friends don't, and signaling that her liaison with JD is more a matter of status and convenience than genuine attraction. As Ben painstakingly gathers information he hopes will identify Ellen's killer, the turning points in his investigation are consistently linked to pivotal moments in his relationship with Ro: their quarrels, their rapprochements, their debates about the senior prom. The result is a peculiar amalgam of one-quarter amateur detective work and three-quarters high school romance, like a Stephenie Meyer epic with a serial killer substituting for the vampires. The mystery, with a forgettable killer whose most serious threat against the hero is slashing his tires, gets buried in the coming-of-age story. If you want to spend 700 pages revisiting the normal yet fraught rituals of adolescent romance, though, here's your chance.

        COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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        September 1, 2017
        Ben, 17, is looking for the person who murdered his sister three years ago. Sam Shanks, the homicide cop who's been on the case since the beginning, believed for a long time that the girl had fallen victim to a serial killer known as the Demon, but Ben's tireless investigation has turned up clues suggesting his sister was killed by someone else, identity unknown. Soon Ben finds himself the target of a ruthless killer, and there may be nothing Sam can do to protect the boy. Kellerman delivers a great story, some fine characters, and a disquieting, look-over-your-shoulder atmosphere that should keep readers turning the pages as fast as they can. There's also a rather touching plot thread involving Ben and a girl named Ro, who goes to Ben's school and whose interest in Ben both excites and confuses him. Is Ro harboring dark secrets, or is Ben just a teenager with an overactive imagination? Compelling and sharply written.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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The more you know, the more there is to fear...

Three years ago, fifteen-year-old Ellen Vicksburg went missing in the quiet town of River Remez, New Mexico. Ellen was kind, studious, and universally liked. Her younger brother, Ben, could imagine nothing worse than never knowing what happened to her—until, on the first anniversary of her death, he found her body in a shallow grave by the river's edge.

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