Nightlife, Thomas Perry
Nightlife, Thomas Perry
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Nightlife

Author: Thomas Perry

Narrator: Shelly Frasier

Unabridged: 12 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/29/2006


Synopsis

By turns horrifying and erotic, critically-acclaimed author Thomas Perry's new thriller takes us on a dangerous cat-and-mouse game that pits two women against each other: a beautiful serial killer and the detective who is determined to stop her.

When the cousin of Los Angeles underworld figure Hugo Poole is found shot to death in his Portland, Oregon, home, police find nothing at the scene of the crime except several long strands of blond hair hinting that a second victim may have been involved. Hotel security tapes from the victim's last vacation reveal an out-of-focus picture of a young blond woman entering and leaving his room. Could she also be a murder victim?
Portland homicide detective Catherine Hobbes is determined to solve the case and locate the missing blonde, but her feelings, and the investigation, are complicated when Hugo hires private detective Joe Pitt to perform a parallel investigation. As Joe and Catherine form an uneasy alliance, the murder count rises-and both realize that the pretty young woman in the security tapes is not a victim at all.

As Catherine follows the evidence, she finds herself in a deadly contest with an unpredictable adversary capable of changing her appearance and identity at will. Catherine must use everything she knows, as a homicide detective and as a woman, to stop a murderer who kills on impulse and with ease, and who becomes more efficient and elusive with each crime.


About Thomas Perry

Thomas Perry is the bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including the critically acclaimed Jane Whitefield series, The Old Man, and The Butcher's Boy, which won the Edgar Award. He lives in Southern California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on September 28, 2015

Another excellent thriller where Perry gets inside the head of a serial killer. He made it so logical that it was scary. The back story that slowly emerges is both horrifying yet so mundane & likely. Perry also wrote from the point of view of those trying to catch her & that was interesting, too. Cl......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on December 20, 2021

I didn’t love the ending. It was not a bad book. Maybe I should give it a 3.5 star review. But it wasn’t as good as many I have read lately. Overall, the bad girl gave me the creeps. I liked the detective that was chasing her. At least she realized the possibilities that everything was done by a wom......more

Goodreads review by Jim on August 05, 2016

Master story teller Thomas Perry has once again spun another very interesting yarn to enjoy. It's moniker , "Nightlife", is a wild tale just chock full of some unique, and intense characters which easily deliver a pretty good suspense thriller . Written in 2006, "Nightlife", has two somewhat intense......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on October 21, 2016

Audiobook. Thomas Perry delivers a fine novel about a chameleon-like woman who preys on men (just how deliberate her actions might be I will leave to other readers.) Perry presents the story from a variety of different points-of-view: the Portland detective sergeant looking for her; the gambling-add......more

Goodreads review by Chris on June 12, 2021

On the plus side, this book had an interesting villain, a dangerous woman who fully understands how to target and manipulate men to suit her needs. The story is well written and features some of the author’s trademark “how to be a criminal” tips. What I didn’t like was I found the book to be a littl......more