Never Fear, Scott Frost
Never Fear, Scott Frost
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Never Fear

Author: Scott Frost

Narrator: Shelly Frasier

Unabridged: 7 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/15/2006


Synopsis

Seventeen years ago, three women were killed, their bodies dumped in the wasteland of the L.A. River. The serial killer was never found, and the case was mysteriously closed. Now, all these years later, Detective Alex Delillo reopens the River Killer case to help solve her own brother's murder.

Alex never knew she had a brother until she went to identify his body. He was found next to the river near Griffith Park, a single gunshot wound in his head. LAPD is calling it suicide, but when Alex reconstructs her brother's final hours she stumbles across his research on an old LAPD case—the River Killings. The prime suspect was none other than their own father.

As Alex gets closer to the truth, her father's past comes into focus, and alarming flashbacks from her childhood start to plague her. A journeyman actor who disappeared when she was a child, he had a history of violence against women, but was he capable of murder? Meanwhile, the schizophrenic son of the killer's third victim is out for his own revenge, and someone in the shadows is stalking Alex's every move and leaving a body count. In a chilling turn, Alex finds that the truth is as murky and as empty as the L.A. River itself.

Replete with a labyrinth-like plot, feverish suspense, and the simmering setting that is Los Angeles, Frost proves he can rival the best popular suspense authors in this, his second outing in a promising new series that Publishers Weekly called "a jaw-dropper that will leave readers clamoring for more."

About Scott Frost

Scott Frost is a screenwriter whose credits include the television classics Twin Peaks and Life Goes On.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John on January 21, 2021

A fast paced story. Alex a female Pasadena detective discovers she has a brother who has apparently committed suicide. He tried to fax her something just before he is discovered dead in an area where two murders happened years ago and were connected to her father who disappeared when she was a kid. T......more

Goodreads review by Maddy on November 13, 2013

PROTAGONIST: Lieut. Alex Delillo, homicide detective SETTING: Pasadena, CA SERIES: #2 of 2 RATING: 3.75 NEVER FEAR Alex Delillo is a lieutenant in the homicide detective of the Pasadena, California, Police Department. It's puzzling to find that a man who just died was trying to send her a fax right befor......more

Goodreads review by Marouane on March 15, 2013

I think it's a very good book, because it's very exciting. It's really a thriller. Once you picked this book up you can't stop reading. The novel has lots of story lines, once you read it you keep guessing what's going to happen. That's why it's a very mysterious novel. The novel has too many detail......more

Goodreads review by Diana on September 12, 2008

Typical of the sort of blockbuster thriller that sells zillions today. It's about a detective who uncovers corruption in the authorities, blah, blah. I read it easily enough, so I suppose it can't be all bad. Maybe I was just looking for more than a plot - I want characters and ideas and something t......more

Goodreads review by Helen on December 29, 2024

I enjoyed the book but again, as with other detective novels, in the last few pages the author has to pull all the loose ends together. And that includes telling the reader how each of the several evil characters was involved in the crime/s. Still I was eager to finish the book to find out what happ......more