Say Goodbye

Zusatztext "Just when you thought Lisa Gardner couldn't get any better ... she does. Say Goodbye is a stunning! chilling! up-all-night thriller that will leave you shaken."—Lee Child “A spider-obsessed killer is hunting Atlanta prostitutes…. He’s seriously scary and the flashbacks to his abusive past achieve a ripped-from-the-headlines authenticity.”— Entertainment Weekly " Haunting.... Gardner has consistently delivered entertaining and suspenseful novels in recent years! but she's gone one better with Say Goodbye ! perhaps her best book yet."— Chicago Sun-Times “Should have a warning label: ‘Read only in a well-lit room that has first been thoroughly checked for spiderwebs.’ Then! you can settle back and get caught up in a story that is truly a stunner of a suspense novel.”– Tulsa World “Gardner continue[s] to write fascinating! dark characters…. [She] surprises you right up until the end.”– Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star “For all readers who likes their thrillers suspenseful! fast paced! and just a little creepy (OK! a lot creepy).”— Booklist "Lock the doors before you open this book! and hope that the only web being woven around you is Lisa Gardner’s mesmerizing story."—Tess Gerritsen “Engaging if highly disturbing.”— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Lisa Gardner Klappentext The bestselling author of Hide and Gone draws us into the venomous mind games of a terrifying killer. Come into my parlor . . . For Kimberly Quincy! FBI Special Agent! it all starts with a pregnant hooker. The story Delilah Rose tells Kimberly about her johns is too horrifying to be true-but prostitutes are disappearing! one by one! with no explanation! and no one but Kimberly seems to care. Said the spider to the fly . . . As a member of the Evidence Response Team! dead hookers aren't exactly Kimberly's specialty. The young agent is five months pregnant-she has other things to worry about than an alleged lunatic who uses spiders to do his dirty work. But Kimberly's own mother and sister were victims of a serial killer. And now! without any bodies and with precious few clues! it's all too clear that a serial killer has found the key to the perfect murder . . . or Kimberly is chasing a crime that never happened. Kimberly's caught in a web more lethal than any spider's! and the more she fights for answers! the more tightly she's trapped. What she doesn't know is that she's close-too close-to a psychopath who makes women' s nightmares come alive! and if he has his twisted way! it won't be long before it' s time for Kimberly to . . . SAY GOODBYE Leseprobe Chapter One THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT NO ONE TELLS YOU, THAT YOU must experience in order to learn: It only hurts the first few times. You scream. You scream and you scream and you scream until your throat is raw and your eyes swollen and you taste a curious substance in the back of your throat that is like bile and vomit and tears all rolled into one. You cry for your mother. You beg for God. You don't understand what is happening. You can't believe it is happening. And yet, it is happening. And so, bit by bit, you fall silent. Terror doesn't last forever. It can't. It takes too much energy to sustain. And in truth, terror occurs when you are confronted with the unknown. But once it has happened enough, you have been systematically violated, beaten, cowed, it's not unknown, is it? The same act that once shocked you, hurt you, shamed you with its perversity, becomes the norm. This is your day now. This is the life you lead. This is who you have become. A specimen in the collection. Chapter Two "Spiders are always on the lookout for prey, but predators are also on the lookout for spiders. Clever dis...

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Gardner
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.05.2009
• EAN: 9780553588095
• ISBN: 978-0-553-58809-5
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 175 mm x 28 mm
• Series: FBI Profiler; FBI Profiler
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense