- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Pan (6 April 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 033044140X
- ISBN-13: 978-0330441407
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.2 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 738,136 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"You can see why in certain quarters, Ablow is compared to Thomas Harris."
--"Entertainment Weekly"
"A very fine writer."--Nelson Demille
"No one burrows into the darkest recesses of the heart as deeply as Keith Ablow."
--Tess Gerritsen, author of "Body Double"
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"Keith Ablow's setting is the darkest of all--the twists and turns of the human mind."--Harlan Coben, author of "Gone for Good"
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"Ablow's got the instincts of Thomas Harris."--James Ellroy
"Impressive and sharply detailed...a fresh and fully realized creation."--"Publishers Weekly "on "The Architect"
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"Deeply compelling...almost hypnotically evil...the Frank Clevenger mysteries keep getting better."--"Booklist "on "The Architect"""
"An absolutely chilling premise and terrifying to the very end."--Catherine Crier, COURT TV host and bestselling author of "A Deadly Game" on "The Architect"
""The Architect" is original, well written, and very suspenseful. West Crosse is a complex, unforgettable bad guy. "--James Patterson, "NewYork Times" Bestselling author of "Cat and Mouse "on "The Architect"
--"Entertainment Weekly"
"A very fine writer."--Nelson Demille
"No one burrows into the darkest recesses of the heart as deeply as Keith Ablow."
--Tess Gerritsen, author of "Body Double"
""
"Keith Ablow's setting is the darkest of all--the twists and turns of the human mind."--Harlan Coben, author of "Gone for Good"
""
"Ablow's got the instincts of Thomas Harris."--James Ellroy
"Impressive and sharply detailed...a fresh and fully realized creation."--"Publishers Weekly "on "The Architect"
""
"Deeply compelling...almost hypnotically evil...the Frank Clevenger mysteries keep getting better."--"Booklist "on "The Architect"""
"An absolutely chilling premise and terrifying to the very end."--Catherine Crier, COURT TV host and bestselling author of "A Deadly Game" on "The Architect"
""The Architect" is original, well written, and very suspenseful. West Crosse is a complex, unforgettable bad guy. "--James Patterson, "NewYork Times" Bestselling author of "Cat and Mouse "on "The Architect"
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Dr Frank Clevenger's latest case - an unforgettable tour de force that takes you straight inside the mind of a masterful serial killer
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you've read and liked "Psychopath", you will probably like this book - although, if you have read "Psychopath" you, essentially, know the story of "The Architect" already, so why bother reading it again? "The Architect" presents us with yet another psychopathic genius in search of Inner Truth and Beauty (no, not Clevenger - he is the alcohol-addicted genius in search of Inner Truth and Beauty), who is willing to kill to fulfill God's Plan - in this case while working as an architect, hence the title. Billy Bishop has problems with drugs and violence. Clevenger has problems with alcohol and Billy. Clevenger can't make the relationship with the woman he loves work (yes, it is still Whitney McCormick). Sounds familiar?
Ablow isn't the Shakespeare of psychological thrillers. He isn't even the Grisham of psychological thrillers. He writes mildly chilling and not overly ambitious books about strange murders and even stranger murderers which are perfect for commuter journeys, holidays or a cosy evening at home. But "The Architect", sadly, marks an all-time low, even by his standards.
What could be an entertaining, nicely thrilling read is spoiled, once again, by Ablows' slipshod writing. In fact, his carelessness is getting worse. Maybe he has too much on his plate nowadays to concentrate on his writing as well. "The Architect" contains many of the mistakes by now typical for all his books: Misspelled names of real-life people, misrepresented real-life crimes, characters who inexplicably change their names halfway through a book. And, of course, Billy Bishop's ever-changing life story: By now, Ablow's short recapturing of Billys history bears practically no resemblance whatsoever to the plot of "Compulsion". But then again, Ablow obviously assumes (or hopes) that his readers have a short memory, as he shamelessly copies his own sentences from "Compulsion" and uses them again in "The Architect". Can there be a more obvious sign of an author's arrogance and disrespect for his readers?
All this is even more annoying because Ablow probably could do better. But it seems that, by now, he is content with churning out roughly 300 pages roughly once a year, with no regard for his own writing, or for his readers. One can only hope that Mr Ablow will eventually return to the kind of writing that originally made him a bestselling author.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The 6'th in the Frank Clevenger series. Here we meeth the Architect who values his work as pure art, both in the decor for oppulent hoouses he designs but also for the stunning images he can create from a scalpel and a newly deceased canvass. A true pyschological case for Frank to crack. A good read though I prefer some of the earlier cases of denial,projection and compulsion.
Format:Paperback
I like the way that Keith Ablow builds up the picture of the killer, but found it sad that all the families were quite glad the family member was dead.
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