THE KILLING SONG
P.J. Parrish
9781439189368
Pocket Books, available on Nook and almost certainly on Kindle
July 26, 2011
P.J. Coldren
April 24, 2011
Are you an older sibling? Do you remember the terror you felt when you were watching your kid sister and lost her? Even for a minute? Matt Owens is living that nightmare, and it gets as bad as it can get. Amanda is visiting Miami and he’s showing her the night life. He turns away for a moment and when he looks back, she’s gone. When she is found, she’s been brutally murdered.
Matt is a reporter, good enough to have been nominated for a Pulitzer. He HAS to find out who killed his sister, and he uses every investigative skill he has to do this. Following a musical clue left on Amanda’s I-Pod takes Matt to Paris. He joins forces with a French detective, Eve Bellamont. They chase over a significant portion of Europe following clues and murders. This killer has apparently been active for a very long time.
P.J. Parrish has done a stellar job with this book. The musical clues are bizarre but effective. The rapport that builds between Matt and Eve is believable without being overdone. The only minor flaw can easily be attributed to poetic license: the kinds of red tape and bureaucratic nightmares that would almost assuredly accompany this kind of investigation are relatively minor and easily circumvented. I can live with that. The pace is slow at the beginning and frantic at the end; Parrish handles that roller-coaster thriller ride handily.
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