Eve Singer needs death. With her career as a TV crime reporter flagging, she’ll do anything to satisfy her ghoulish audience.
The killer needs death too. He even advertises his macabre public performances, where he hopes to show the whole world the beauty of dying.
When he contacts Eve, she welcomes the chance to be first with the news from every gory scene. Until she realizes that the killer has two obsessions.
One is public murder.
And the other one is her ...
Eve is a crime reporter who is fighting to keep her job and career ... her boss is always reminding her there are younger and prettier reporters wanting to take her place. So along with Joe, her cameraman, she does what she can to cover gruesome stories to attract and keep her audience. In addition, she has the added pressure of caring for her father who has lost touch with reality and who she is.
A murderer becomes fixated with her. He wants her to publicize his killings so gives her hints about them ahead of time. She's okay with that as it gives her the exposure she needs to keep her job. It eventually becomes apparent that he plans on making her one of his victims.
This is the first book I've read by this author and I liked it. I like the writing style. It is written in third person perspective depending on where the action was. I wasn't really buying the "why" of the murderer, though, and would have like a better motive for his killings. As a head's up, there is swearing and violence.
I thought it was odd that considering her father's dementia Eve has a pet hamster. Her father is always hiding and/or taking apart things so I'm surprised she would have a pet around him. I've had hamsters and would never had done some of the things she did with hers ... like get drunk and then let it roam free around the living room (and even open the front door) or when in danger, grab the hamster to save it and put in her pocket (!!??) rather than the cage with the hamster in it.
No comments:
Post a Comment