Victim

by Gayle Wilson

She has nothing left to lose Like all clich s, this one is true at its core. Racked with grief over her son Danny's brutal death, Sarah Patterson steels herself to take revenge on his murderer. When... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0778323943
• ISBN13: 9780778323945
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Mira Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

GOOD, but predictable

this is my second book by Gayle Wilson, its good, keeps you reading , but, its your typical , victim, cop-falling in love and killer on the loose. typical ending.....but i would still get another by this author. Enjoyable, just nothing to knock you out of your chair.

Gayle Wilson suspense novel

VICTIM is the kind of book you either like or not, the story reminded me, somewhat, of Tami Hoag's THIN RED LINE. A serial killer is released because the evidence was excluded because of a technicality. And the mom tried to kill the murderer. Sarah Patterson has lived with the torture and death of her son Danny for three years. She has no confidence in the police or justice. She is proved right when a liberal judge throws out the evidence against the killer and releases him. She has come prepared with a gun and intends to take his life when he leaves the courthouse. As she aims the gun a detective tackles her and knocks her down, but not before she looks into a killer's eyes and tells him she is killing him for what he did to her son. Mac Donovan is a detective, he has led the task force looking for the killer of young boys. When he sees Sarah draw her gun he tackles her, but since he agrees with her that an injustice has been done, he forces the cameraman to give up his tape and he destroys it. During his confrontation with the cameraman, Sarah picks up her gun and disappears. The TV station complains to his chief, and Mac protects Sarah, so his chief suspends him for four weeks. Sarah has gone home where she finds a phone message from Tate, the serial killer, telling her that her son cried for her. When she goes to the police to report it they don't believe her, or rather they say they don't. Because they have lost Tate, and if he strikes again the people of New Orleans are sure to blame the police who let him get away. Mac can't forget the woman who was determinded to get justice for her son, and Sarah needs someone to believe her. Circumstances bring these two togather and each feels the need to stop a killer from killing again. Sarah has been cold and dead inside for three yrs and now the chill of knowing he is free and able to hurt kids again, haunts her. Battling both the police and the need to find a killer draws two lonely people togather, and now it seems the killer has transfered his attention to the woman who tried to end his reign of terror. I liked the story, the print was a nice size, and I felt it was worth the money. A good read. Just enough romance and a well told tale.

superb serial killer chiller

Sarah Patterson's life ended three years ago when someone tortured and murdered her beloved son Daniel. The police arrest Samuel Tate for that murder and others as they find concrete evidence in his van during a routine accident. However, Orleans Parish Criminal Court Judge Marlene Wexler, who always rules in favor of defendant's rights in an exact interpretation of the law, throws out the "murder kit" that uniformed Police Officer Gateau found in Tate's vehicle as the cop had no probable cause to search the van. She frees Tate. As Tate leaves the courtroom, Sarah takes out a gun to kill him, but cop Mac Donovan prevents her from doing so; he warns her she would have been held on murder charges, but she says so what as she died three years ago. Tate smirks at her as he leaves by taxi. Soon after that encounter, Sarah receives strange phone calls that she and Mac believe are from Tate, glorying in his freedom. Not long after that back door encounter, her former husband (the marriage ending when Danny died) is murdered. Once again Sarah and Mac feel Tate killed her spouse. Mac tries to protect Sarah while the FBI sets up a sting using her as bait to finally catch this diabolically clever serial killer; as they fall in love; she now has a reason to live. VICTIM is a superb serial killer chiller that grips the audience from the moment the Judge frees Tate and never frees the reader until the final anticipated Bayou confrontation. The story line is action-packed with most scenes adding tension to this taut thriller. The cast is strong especially the lead couple and Tate. Although the romance seems out of place and reduces the spine tingling expectation of High Noon between a grieving mom and her son's killer, fans will appreciate Gayle Wilson's powerful novel. Harriet Klausner