The Hunted

By Wayne Barcomb

Book Overview

A lightning-fast police procedural from an up-and-coming talent, The Hunted introduces a?homicide detective who gets the shock of his life while tracking a most ingenious serial killer From a writer whose previous works Robert B. Parker declared "compelling . . . swiftly told" and James W. Hall called "top-notch" comes this first electrifying thriller featuring New York City homicide detective Frank Russo. The Hunted begins with a little girl witnessing a horrible crime. Due to the child's testimony, the?murderer is convicted. Eighteen years later the killer is released on parole, and his mission is to track down the now grown?woman he feels betrayed him. A deranged dance of masked identities ensues, and it is up to newly single homicide detective Frank Russo to unravel the case.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031237075X
• ISBN13: 9780312370756
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

refreshing police procedural

The child witnessed the murder. She testified in court explaining what she saw that she knows will haunt her forever. The killer is convicted and sent to prison. Eighteen years later, New York homicide detective Frank Russo is the lead investigator into the homicides of several people. His inquiry seems to go nowhere though he believes a serial killer is the culprit. Frank soon learns that a convicted murderer sentenced eighteen years ago was recently paroled. He begins to change his theory re the current killings and wonders if that freed convict is on a rampage leading him to the person who sent him to prison. Frank is a fabulous cop struggling in his failed personal life as much as he struggles with a case that is going nowhere. In many ways the deranged killer steals the show from Frank as the audience sees first hand how he was an abuse victim and his efforts to not give in to the obsession to kill again. As Frank follows the few clues, he remains clueless to the identity of the culprit who lives a normal middle class life even as his urging is to hunt down the cop chasing him. Though serial killer investigative thrillers have saturated the market, Wayne Barcomb's fine tale is a refreshing police procedural mostly because of the hunter and the HUNTED. Harriet Klausner

Vivid

This one is so vivid that it jumps off the page at you. I don't usually read thrillers. Now I know why they're called thrillers. Let's have more from Wayne Barcomb.