THE KILLER AMONG THEM

Author: Anita Whiting ISBN: 1599988550 1/2008 SUSPENSE Publisher: SAMHAIN PUBLISHING

Can her sixth sense be enough to stop the murders or does the killer have his sights set on her as his next victim? Katarina Ramon is a busy, well respected attorney in New York City. Yet the dreams still torment her. More than dreams—they are replays of the clairvoyant flashes that show every detail of her parents’ murder years ago. She resents her gift, these sudden flashes that come out of nowhere, but accepts that she can see things others can’t. When another couple is found murdered in her small hometown, her aunt begs her to come home and assist in the investigation. Police Chief Cole Collins isn’t at all pleased with Katarina’s interference. Nor is he immune to her charms. Yet with someone in this little southern town is continuing the same murderous ways that killed her parents, Katarina and Cole are left with no choice but to work together. Katarina’s vivid memories and sixth sense may stop the killing—or make her the murderer’s next victim.

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

Anita Whiting weaves a compelling and tangled web of suspense in THE KILLER AMONG THEM. With its many options of capable suspects—including some obvious and not-so-obvious ones—this suspense delivered on all levels, including some that I hadn't expected.

There's a lot of players in this drama, which is usually standard fare in a suspense where a past murder ties in to the present and people from those two time periods all blend in together, sometimes making the plot confusing or the "who's who" just harder to follow. Not so, in THE KILLER AMONG THEM. The characters are so distinctly written in their personalities and in the parts they play throughout the entire storyline, that the flow of the story reads without one single hiccup or nary a bump in the telling. No confusion, no lost sequences, just good, suspenseful straight-through reading.

Kat and Cole's characters were excellently drawn, and the magnetism and sparks between them were evident from the first. The secondary characters—all of them—were so well defined that I became as interested in them as I was in Kat and Cole.

Truly, there's not one single criticism I can find to give this book, and I especially liked how the author brought everything together in the end—a murder mystery from the past is solved, while a killer and murder in the present is unraveled as all the pieces fall from both, mix together and fall neatly into place.

If you like well written suspense edged with mystery and an added touch of the paranormal, then THE KILLER AMONG THEM might just be one for you.

Nancy Davis