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"A taut, sharp, gripping reimagining of the serial-killer novel." --Tana French
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On a hot summer s day in the sleepy American town of Rockville, Jessie Conway, a teacher at the local high school, notices a car driving slowly around the school grounds. Twenty minutes later Jessie is fighting for her life and Rockville is plunged into living nightmare after a gun-toting student unleashes bloody mayhem. For Jessie the horror is just beginning. Traumatized and hounded by the media she retreats to her home and tries to rebuild her shattered life.
Caleb Switch watches the developments in Rockville with interest. A skilled and diligent killer, his recent selections have disappointed him, offering challenge to a man of his predilections. Jessie Conway interests him: for she is no ordinary woman and a fine choice for a less than ordinary man.
As Jessie struggles to hold onto her marriage and her sanity she has no idea that she has become The Chosen
Caleb Switch watches the developments in Rockville with interest. A skilled and diligent killer, his recent selections have disappointed him, offering challenge to a man of his predilections. Jessie Conway interests him: for she is no ordinary woman and a fine choice for a less than ordinary man.
As Jessie struggles to hold onto her marriage and her sanity she has no idea that she has become The Chosen
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Hunt's new novel is a departure from her Dublin set PI novels and it works like a charm. Actually, it works like a hand-tooled obsidian arrow head made by Caleb Switch, the serial killer/manhunter who stalks the pages of The Chosen, using a compound bow and seriously warped mind to hunt his specially selected victims. The setting, the mountainous border between North Carolina and Tennessee is wonderfully evoked, giving the reader a real sense of the density of wilderness that is in such stark opposition to her earlier Dublin settings. The people of the mountain country come alive on the page with their mixture of kindness and back country grit; Hunt's dialogue is sharp and at times, funny. One of the things Hunt has always done well is write secondary characters and here is no exception. While Jessie is a sympathetic, tough, yet vulnerable heroine, I defy anyone not to want to see her brother-in-law Ace appear in another of Hunt's US set novels. Also notable is the research Hunt has done. In the best crime fiction, the reader should feel the authority of the writer's research, not see it. Hunt has pulled this off in spades. All in all, a cracking read.
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Jessie Conway has moved to Rockville to escape her past, but gets caught up in a Columbine style shooting at the school where she teaches. Meanwhile Caleb Switch, a hunter killer, apparently based on Robert Hansen - the Anchorage Big Game Hunter turned serial killer - is feeding his own hunger. And when he turns his attention to Jessie... we know the game is on. I found this a convincing, compelling read - read it in two days - the characters were well drawn, and the dialogue ear-perfect backwoods USA.
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All of Hunt's previous books are based in Dublin so this one, set in small town USA, is something of a departure. I suppose the best compliment I can pay the author is that this feels as well drawn as any of her Dublin locations.
The story starts with a bang and the pacing is superb, building relentlessly to a nerve-wracking climax. If you had the time this is certainly a book you could devour in one sitting. It's the best thing I've read in months.
The story starts with a bang and the pacing is superb, building relentlessly to a nerve-wracking climax. If you had the time this is certainly a book you could devour in one sitting. It's the best thing I've read in months.
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