Book info

• Title Hour Game
• Author David Baldacci
• Year 2004
• Genre Thriller

The unidentified corpse of an attractive young woman turns up in the woods; two high school kids, one shot in the back, the other in the face, are found dead in their car; a successful lawyer is discovered stabbed to death in her own home. A serial killer is on the loose. The murderer kills in the manner of famous killers of the past but takes care to leave a stopped watch at the scene of each crime – corresponding to the victim's position on his hit list. As the killing spree escalates it seems that the fractured Battle family are somehow involved and Maxwell and King suddenly find themselves racing to solve an intricate puzzle, one that is full of tantalizing clues but barren of solid evidence, and one that is leaving even the FBI confounded. And all the while, the body count is rising...

Thoughts

Now I’ve finished powering through Jack Reacher for a while, it’s time to head back to David Baldacci and his excellent thrillers. I enjoyed this one, someone is copying lots of different serial killers and it ends up being up to King & Maxwell to figure it out. There are lots of twists and turns as you might expect, but I wasn’t anticipating the ending where everything hit a lot closer to home than you might imagine. Very interested to read the next one in the series!

Rating: 4 / 5