listened on Audible
Read by Emily Sutton-Smith
Unabridged audio (8:31)
2018, Thomas & Mercer
297 pgs.
Adult Murder Mystery
Finished 3/17/19
Goodreads rating: 4.36 - 2107 ratings
My rating:4.5
Setting: contemporary Minneapolis/St. Paul
First line/s: "The woman in the apartment upstairs was screaming again."
My comments: I remembered quite a bit about the first novel as I listened to this one, even though I read it quite a bit ago. Jude Fontaine is difficult to forget, the corrupt governor's daughter, up-and-coming detective in the Minneapolis police who had been abducted and held captive in a dark cell for three years. Discovering her father and brother too, I think) was cruel and corrupt, she had killed him/them in the line of duty. That was book number one. In this book she is pitted against a serial killer who is following the Fibonacci sequence in his bloody slaughters. Very bloody.... Fascinating story - one of those truly gritty, horrifying serial killer tomes. Jude Fontaine is fascinating, as is her partner, Uriah Ashby. Looking forward to number three.
An added note to remember before reading number three and forgetting all the nitty-gritty of this one: at the very end we discover that Elliot Kaplan, her downstairs neighbor and photo-journalist "friend" - and even suspect at one time for the murders - is actually her illegitimate brother. She does not know. Apparently her father had had an affair with or raped Elliot's mother. Alsto, the relationship between Jude and Uriah is getting a little bit interesting in a vague way. (Elliot is just out of the hospital. He had been locked into "her" cell for three days and left for dead, but she realized it just as they were starting to demolish the house, which she had purchased.)
Goodreads synopsis: From a New York Times bestselling author comes the chilling follow-up to the Thriller Award winner The Body Reader.
Months after discovering the mastermind behind her own kidnapping, Detective Jude Fontaine is dealing with the past the only way she knows how: by returning to every dark corner of it. But it’s a new, escalating series of mass slayings that has become her latest obsession at Homicide.
At first, Jude and her partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, can see no pattern to the seemingly random methods, the crime scenes, or the victims—until they’re approached by a brilliantly compulsive math professor. He believes that the madman’s next move is not incalculable; in fact, it’s all part of a sequential and ingenious numerical riddle. His theory is adding up. The body count is rising.
But when the latest victim is found in Jude’s apartment, the puzzle comes with a personal twist that’s going to test the breaking point of her already-fragile state of mind. For all she knows, her number may be up.
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