- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Severn House Publishers Ltd (3 Dec 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 072786596X
- ISBN-13: 978-0727865960
- Product Dimensions: 22 x 14.7 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 579,126 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When an elevator in the semi-abandoned Giley Building sticks at floor fifteen during a May lunchtime, it's no great surprise to the office-workers whose lunches are getting cold: the building's falling apart and has been earmarked for demolition. But when the elevator car shudders to the ground floor and the doors open to reveal the body of a middle-aged man, who has been stabbed repeatedly, and a terrified and bloodied young woman who has also been attacked, it sets in motion a chain of events that will make the streets of Cincinnati run with blood...Talented police artist Molly and her alternative, chain-smoking, fortune-telling mother-in-law, Sissy, become inextricably involved as the perpetrator begins a city-wide massacre. But surely one man can't be in two places at the same time? Sissy's tarot cards seem to be offering her clues, if only she can decipher them in time...
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
When you browse the current horror shelves it's hard to find a horror or supernatural novel that's not vampires or zombies. Graham Masterton may have dabbled in these areas, however The Painted Man is a breath of fresh air. Masterton twists the standard serial killer crime novel on it's head when he adds his usual gruesome flair, in this case in a standalone second Sissy Sawyer mystery. There are plenty of thrills and plot twists as the story unfolds. Clever from start to finish, this is a recommended read with good characterisation and scenes of great horror.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Improvement over first entry in series
2 Mar 2012
Format:Hardcover
This is unquestionably better than the first in the Sissy Sawyer series: Touchy and Feely (Sissy Sawyer Mysteries). The protagonist, Sissy Sawyer, is still a bit annoying with her cards that give her clues to the future, but she is matched up with her daughter-in-law, a police sketch artist, trying to figure out how a psychopath who is terrorizing Cincinnati is managing to elude the police and appear in more than one place at the same time.
This novel has a compelling villain and a bit of a mystery, although it's not all that hard to figure it out, especially if you are familiar with some of Masterton's other novels. The means by which the good guys try to defeat the bad guys are also not unlike those in some other Masterton novels.
Nonetheless, an improvement, and it's too bad this one was not the first in the series rather than the second.
This novel has a compelling villain and a bit of a mystery, although it's not all that hard to figure it out, especially if you are familiar with some of Masterton's other novels. The means by which the good guys try to defeat the bad guys are also not unlike those in some other Masterton novels.
Nonetheless, an improvement, and it's too bad this one was not the first in the series rather than the second.
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