Turned out to be a pretty good book, I'll try more by King.
Jonathon King was a new author for me, but I liked this book and will be looking for more by him. The story kept my interest all the way through. This particular audio book was an abridgement but I will not hesitate to get either a print book or an unabridged version of his work because I think his characters were believable and the story was interesting. A sniper is targeting criminals that he thinks did not pay for their crimes and he is using the newspaper articles written by a crime reporter, who is the central figure of the story, to select his victims.
Engrossing tale of a crime reporter and single father whose life is on the line when he realizes that the victim of a fatal shooting is the convicted murderer he had written about years before. It is now a cat-and-mouse game among the authorities, the criminals, and Nick, the reporter. Story is hard to put down.
This is a stand alone of Jonathan King, Nick Mullins is a crime reporter, his life has been a mess ever since he lost his wife and one of his twin daughters in a car crash a few years ago, it's only because of his remaining daughter that he isn't worse than he is. He's just going through the motions on his job until a convicted killer is killed by a sniper, to Nick's it's just another story, when he realizes that the murderer that was killed was a subject of one of his articles years ago, he hadn't ever known that this individual was out on parole and the funny thing is he was murdered right on the stoop of his parole officer. He shrugs it off until another individual is killed, another subject of an old article, then he finds out about other murders that were subjects of his articles, he can no longer shrug it off as coincidence. Someone is using his articles as a list. He is a suspect at first until he is cleared, then to make things worse the man who was responsible for the death of his wife and daughter is released on parole. If he does nothing, he might be avenged, his old curiosity is coming back and he may be not be able to sit still and do nothing. This book grabs you from the beginning until the end. I read it in one sitting.
