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    The Night Spider
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    The Night Spider

    Written by John Lutz

    Narrated by Scott Brick

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    About this audiobook

    John Lutz is fascinated by the nighttime dangers that await women alone. In THE NIGHT SPIDER, he improvises a new variation on this theme with a thriller about a serial killer who preys upon women living in high-rises. With few visible means of entry, the mysterious stalker kills women while they sleep in their beds behind securely locked doors. Like his namesake, he leaves his victims wrapped in their bed sheets and stabbed repeatedly, having them slowly bleed to death with their mouths frozen in a silent scream. The few clues left on the scene point to a wall-crawling, glass-cutting predator who easily eludes the best minds on the police force. Now a determined detective must stop him-before time runs out for his next victim.
    "Like Eric Clapton reinventing a familiar blues tune, Lutz, an award-winning master craftsman, takes a tired thriller formula and gives it fresh sizzle." (Booklist)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 27, 2003
    ISBN9781415912584
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    The Night Spider
    Author

    John Lutz

    John Lutz is the author of more than thirty novels and two hundred short stories, and is a past president of Mystery Writers of America and Private Eye Writers of America. He is the recipient of the Edgar Award, Shamus Award, and the Trophee 813 Award for best mystery short story collection translated into the French language. Lutz is the author of two private eye series. He divides his time between homes in St. Louis, Missouri, and Sarasota, Florida.

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    • 4/5
      I've often glanced at those John Lutz paperbacks, with their similar names and attractively creepy cover designs. I did a little research and The Night Spider seemed to be the best reviewed of them, so I gave it a shot.There's a killer loose in New York. His victims are all single women, living in upper floor apartments, cocooned in their bedclothes. The apartments are accessed via their windows, meaning the killer is scaling the sides of the buildings like a spider. Thomas Horn, a former detective is called out of retirement to hunt down the killer (which seems to be a theme in all of these Lutz Night books).The book is an exciting and well paced thriller. It moves along smoothly, all of the scenes are interesting and things never drag. The scenes involving the killer are creepy, yet avoid being too lurid and each of the cops has enough personality to make them interesting to follow. Lutz does a decent job of evoking New York. The ambiance wasn't as strong as I like, but as you read the book, you will not confuse the setting for any other city.But as enjoyable as it was, it was missing that certain something 'extra' that would have put it over the top and made it truly memorable. The book did everything right (though near the end the plot twists became ludicrous), but there was nothing about it that was especially spectacular. For sure I enjoyed the book as a simple pot boiler and I will read more of his stuff. But if The Night Spider is among his better work, I can see that he won't be top tier.
    • 3/5
      I hate it when I start reading a book only to realize I've read it before. Bought this without having done the research. This was a good book when it was first published as Night Spider. Changing the title won't make it any better. I really hate it when publishers confuse people by bringing out early works with new titles.