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Harker Moore A Mourning in Autumn
Grand Central Publishing 20050501 0446615897 / 9780446615891 MM Very Good
0446615897 0446615897 From Publishers Weekly In Moore's second gruesome outing for NYPD homicide detective James Sakura (after 2003's A Cruel Season for Dying), a serial killer is preying on young Manhattan women. He suffocates them, surgically rearranges their internal organs to form a kind of mirror image, then dumps their bodies in the trash. But as Sakura, partner Michael Darius and forensic psychiatrist Wilhelmina French try to untangle the meaning of this ritualistic violence, the killer shifts gears, murdering Darius's ex-wife and kidnapping their twin toddlers. Readers looking for a motive for the killer's psychopathology may be disappointed, as throughout the novel he remains an unfathomable monster. Both detectives are interesting, especially Sakura with his Zen-like detachment and dogged determination. Another clever conceit is his Japanese wife Hanae--blind but gifted with a kind of New Age vision--but she functions too much as part of Sakura's backstory (she played a larger role in A Cruel Season for Dying). The other characters are essentially stock--the acerbic coroner, the ambitious TV crime reporter, a few potential suspects. The pieces of the genre puzzle are all here, but the whole is less than the sum of the parts. Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Booklist Still recovering from the deeply personal tragedy inflicted by the serial killer in Cruel Season for Dying (2003), Lieutenant James Sakura of the NYPD faces another onslaught by a ritualistic murderer, this one preying on women. To catch New Jack (as in the Ripper), Sakura again enlists help from profiler Dr. Wilhelmina French and his long-suffering ex-partner Michael Darius. But the killer's bizarre fantastical world shifts and changes, keeping the investigators off balance until a mother is murdered and her twin boys kidnapped, bringing the investigation, once again, tragically close to home. Revelatory snippets bring the killer's past into the present, giving readers a visceral glimpse of a tortured mind with an ever-increasing appetite for sex-murder; Moore leaves little to the imagination as he spins out the story, which unfolds in a turbulent metropolis where unspeakable behavior finds a comfortable home. A few odd twists muddy the plot, but momentum never lags, and just when relief seems in sight, there's a final, quirky surprise. Stephanie Zvirin Copyright ? American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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