Ebook ¿ The Night Stalker 464 pages

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Ebook ¿ The Night Stalker 464 pages Á ❮EPUB❯ ✺ The Night Stalker Author Chris Carter – Eyltransferservices.co.uk An unidentified female body is brought into the Los Angeles County morgue The cause of death is still unclear Her body bares no marks; except for the fact that her most intimate parts have been stitch An ' case being investigated by the attractive razor sharp Whitney Meyers Hunter suspects the killer might be keeping several women hostage Soon Robert finds himself on the hunt for a murderer who is much monstrous than he ever could have expected a predator whose past hides a terrible secret and who won't stop until each of his victims has brought forth the awful truth Having read hundreds of crime books over the years I find a lot of them now to be boring and predictable and try to mix up my reading by reading other genres I have also become pretty desensitized to much of what goes on in crime fiction stories which is pretty bad when you consider how terrible some of them can be That said this is my fourth Chris Carter book not including the short story and I can safely say his books are not boring they are not predictable and they certainly contain scenes of violence that nobody could ever become desensitized to Chris Carter is without a doubt one of the best writers in crime fiction today uite a sweeping statement but one that I feel is the truth In a genre like crime fiction there are so many authors to choose from but only a small percentage of them write stories which are worth reading Even the old school authors can't seem to write readable books any All too often they rely on the shock factor or OTT storylines One such author in particular is like this and their books seem to sell by the bucket load I don't keep track of sales figures but Carter's books should surely be somewhere near the top I challenge any crime fiction fan to reccommend me an author better than Chris and only ones who wrote their first book in the last 10 years Chris never fails to come up with the absolute worst ways for his characters to die and it sounds awful to say but it does make for one hell of an enjoyable read You find yourself suirming at the scenes but not being able to stop reading I started Chris's books with One By One which was pretty horrific and not entirely original but it seems his earlier work is where he was his most gruesome As for the main character Robert Hunter I like him and he is probably now one of my favourite fictional detectives however he is portrayed as some kind of genius a child prodigy whose university thesis is mandatory reading for FBI trainees It usually annoys me having a perfect detective who can solve every crime however it doesn't here because I feel that Hunter is actually uite a realistic and believable character despite this 'perfectness'The short chapters mean that this is a hard book to put down 'One chapter' often than not turned into 20 chapters and before I knew it the book was over Once again Carter tells a gripping story and it was nice that the person that saved the day wasn't necessarily the person you would expect it to be Series crime fiction is my favourite crime fiction because you get to know the characters and feel like they are your friends which means it is always a shock when major characters are killed off early in the book Usually when a main character finds themselves in danger I don't really care because you know they will survive in the end but Carter strikes me as the type of author that wouldn't necessarily follow this unwritten rule and I wouldn't be surprised if other main characters are killed off in future booksOverall this was another fantastic read and I am only gutted that I have one book left to read in the series I only hope the wait for the next one isn't too long