The Kill Room - Jeffery Deaver

The Kill Room

By Jeffery Deaver

  • Release Date: 2013-06-04
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4
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From 565 Ratings

Description

From the author of Sex and the City comes a satiric story about fame, love, and foolishness that will keep readers enthralled till the very last scene.

Pandy "PJ" Wallis is a renowned writer whose novels about a young woman making her way in Manhattan have spawned a series of blockbuster films. After the success of the Monica books and movies, Pandy wants to attempt something different: a historical novel based on her ancestor Lady Wallis. But Pandy's publishers and audience only want her to keep cranking out more Monica—as does her greedy husband, Jonny, who's gone deeply in debt to finance his new restaurant in Las Vegas.

When her marriage crumbles and the boathouse of her family home in Connecticut goes up in flames, Pandy suddenly realizes she has an opportunity to reinvent herself. But to do so, she will have to reconcile with her ex-best friend and former partner in crime, SondraBeth Schnowzer, who plays Monica on the big screen-and who may have her own reasons to derail Pandy's startling change of plan.

In Killing Monica, Candace Bushnell spoofs and skewers her way through pop culture, celebrity worship, fame, and the meaning of identity—featuring her trademark style and wit.

Reviews

  • Z

    5
    By ks9001
    Z
  • Could not finish

    3
    By Maugs12345678
    Love this series...this is the first disappointment. Agree that I could not get interested in characters or story line. Did not finish.
  • The Kill Room

    4
    By Yellerhead
    Excellent plot and exciting read.
  • Boring

    2
    By Tkoozie
    Hate to say it because I love the Lincoln Rhyme series, but this was a disappointment. Glad it wasn't the first one I read, because I wouldn't have read another one. I couldn't get invested in the characters or plot. But his other books are so good, I will read the next one too!
  • Plodding recap of past novels

    4
    By Leagle1
    Perhaps my hopes were too high. I was looking forward to this newest installment anticipating new information and further character development and it had neither. It was a pleasurable recap of past books with no new twists.
  • An Average Work

    3
    By SC-Sportsman
    While I would give many of Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme books five stars, this one was a solid three for me. It had a few more twists than usual, but the clues were often easier to spot than in some of the other books in the series. The ending was a little weaker than I had hoped for, and an extreme overuse of the word "datamine" really got on my nerves. I've come to expect better from the author, and hope the next book in the series will step the game back up a level.
  • The Kill Room

    5
    By Boysmumas
    boysmumas The best of Lincoln Rhyme. This novel was a 10+. The twists and turns were hard to keep up and more difficult to figure out. First I would think "this is it", then another plot twist. What a roller coaster ride all the way to the ending. Jeffery Deaver has outdone all other novels, this is the best of Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs.