The Killing Hour (FBI Profiler, #4), Lisa Gardner

This one will definitely stay with me for a while.

Skip the next paragraph if you don’t want to read the One-line SPOILER ALERT:

I read a lot. Not many books give me a real WTH moment. The Killing Hour gave me one of those moments, okay, maybe a couple of those. I mean really, a live snake sewed into a corpse? Freaking genius.

The Killing Hour is chalk full of twists, suspense, and crazy What the Hell moments. The story follows Kimberly, a troubled woman with a debilitating past, midway through her FBI training when she stumbles upon the body of a dead woman just off the training course at Quantico. TheEco-Killer has struck again.

The Eco-Killer, a serial murderer whose M.O. is kidnapping young women in pairs who are out on the town, kills one immediately with clues to the whereabouts of the other, leaving the second woman in what is described as a “B-rated horror movie” setting, to see if she can (1) find her way out, or (2) be found before she succumbs to the elements.

As Kimberly and her by-chance partner, Mac, race the clock using the clues left by the killer to save one young woman, they come upon horrendous discoveries and face treacherous landscapes.

The Killing Hour moves so fast you won’t even know you are through reading it. An un-put-downable book if ever there was one.

Well done, Lisa Gardner.