Loverboy
A Novel
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- €5.49
Publisher Description
LOVER BOY IS DYING TO COME OUT AND PLAY.
The rules: Two weeks before he intends to slowly and sadistically kill his prey, Loverboy sends a collage of the future crime scene to the FBI. If the agents can solve the riddles of the collage in time, they can save the victim. Loverboy thinks that’s more than fair. It’s not his fault the feds have already failed five times.
The players: Rosalind Carnow was last seen alone in her Las Vegas hotel room. No one knows where she is now—except Loverboy, and he’s not saying a word. Imogen Page, an FBI agent with a painful past and uncertain future, may be the only person who can find her—and she is determined to decipher Loverboy’s brilliant but deranged puzzle. If Loveboy lets her get that far.
The game: Imogen matches wits with a homicidal mastermind, a fiercely intelligent opponent. Armed with her extraordinarily keen sense for detection, she must do for Rosalind what could not be done for Loverboy’s previous victims: save her life.
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A consensual union between a lustful young lady and a nameless stud kicks off this clunky thriller by Jaffe (Bad Girl, etc.), in which a serial killer taunts the FBI with clues to his next murder. After the sweaty prelude, Imogen Page, an FBI special agent with a rare gift of synthesis a mingling of the senses that renders her empathetic to the motivations of others, even criminals is called to Las Vegas, where noted nuclear physicist Dr. Rosalind Carnow is missing from her hotel, presumably kidnapped. A collage rather than a ransom note tells authorities she's in the hands of the "Hide and Seek Killer," aka Loverboy: as usual, he gives them two and a half weeks to solve a dozen or more riddles and find the victim before he kills her. It's a game this wily, sadistic killer has won five times before. Imogen, though still grieving the sudden death of her beloved only brother, is persuaded to take the case. Her path immediately crosses that of charismatic multimillionaire automaker Benton Arbor, Carnow's longtime platonic best friend. Benton is determined to solve the case his way, and he and Imogen vie with each other for control, even as they fall for each other. Fast-paced action distracts the reader from stiff writing (" 'So you the police have nothing,' Benton summed up"), and the killer's identity, when finally revealed, defies credibility, leaving the reader with a bad case of morning-after malaise.
