The Kill

by Allison Brennan

Book Overview

Her worst nightmare brought back to life, she risks everything for a second shot at justice. For thirty years, FBI scientist Olivia St. Martin has lived with guilt and one abiding certainty-that while she wasn't able to save her sister's life, she did testify and helped to convict the rapist and killer. When shocking new evidence exonerates the man Olivia is sure she saw abduct her sister, she breaks every rule in the book to uncover the truth. Driven...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345485238
• ISBN13: 9780345485236
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.1" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

The Kill

Book was great. came fast and was in great shape. I recommend ordering this book!

Love this author

I absolutely love the way this author keeps you riveted until the very last page. I can't get enough of her.

The action doesn't stop

Wow! What a read. A real quick thumbnail summary. I don't want to give too much away. When she is 5 years old, Olivia witnesses the kidnapping of her older sister. The sister is raped and murdered. Based on her testimony, a man is arrested, spends over 30 years in prison. DNA tests prove that they arrested the wrong man. Olivia, who works for the FBI needs to find out whodunnit. It may be a serial killer who has been killing little girls for over 30 years. The third in a trilogy, however all the books stand on their own. A good murder mystery with some romance. A page turner for sure. Very fast paced.

THE KILL moves at breathtaking speed

Allison Brennan has handed her readers yet another incredible thriller. Olivia St. Martin as "Livie" has lived with survivor's guilt since the death of her older sister. The only thing helping her make it through each day is knowing the man who abducted her sister - the man she testified against - is behind bars...until DNA turns him loose. The story takes off and never slows down while she joins forces with Police Detective Zack Travis to stop a serial killer on the loose. Allison's first two brilliant novels were just a warm up for THE KILL.

fast-paced character driven investigative tale

Olivia "Livie" St. Martin tries to stop the man with the blue bird on his arm from abducting her older sister Melissa, but he just slaps the little girl away and throws Missy inside his black truck. As he drives off, Livie's parents hearing her screams race outside, but they are too late. Her mom hugs Olivia, but that was the last squeeze she ever received from her. Over three decades later, Olivia is Director of Trace Evidence and Materials Analysis at the FBI lab in Virginia when her former husband Dr. Greg van Burns informs her that the DNA of the man she testified abducted her sibling, Brian Harrison Hall, does not match a hair found on Missy's corpse. Hall is freed while Livie is stunned as the only thing that relieved her survival guilt was the conviction of her sibling's rapist-killer. Needing to learn the truth, she breaks office procedures by leaving the lab to do field work. Olivia quickly finds evidence that a serial killer is loose and has been for years; his last known victim in Seattle where she teams up with workaholic Police Detective Zack Travis to stop a clever psychopath and to figure out who killed Missy. THE KILL is a fast-paced character driven investigative tale starring a stunned heroine who knows the irony that her field of expertise exonerated Hall. The romance between Livie and Zack seems somewhat forced, as the investigation takes front and center as the crime lab guru and the homicide detective follow clues that take several intriguing twists. Fans of police procedurals with an overwrought obsessed star will want to read Allison Brennan's fine thriller and seek her two previous FBI tales (See THE PREY and THE HUNT). Harriet Klausner