The Violet Hour - Hardcover

Montanari, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0380975920 ISBN 13: 9780380975921

Publisher: Avon Books, 1998

Synopsis

Twenty years after a young woman is killed in their midst during a wild Halloween party at college, a circle of friends living in Cleveland falls prey to a brilliant serial killer hot for revenge.

About this title

Review:

Richard Montanari combines some unusual ingredients (the ethnic sociology of Cleveland, Ohio; the poetry of T.S. Eliot; the eccentricities of e-mail and chat rooms) with some of the more familiar elements of genre fiction (the hungry journalist who lucks into a good story; a series of current crimes linked to an old atrocity) to excellent effect in The Violet Hour. Writer Nicky Stella--besieged by debts and responsibilities of his own--tries to save his career by finding out why poetry students who went to a party at Case Western Reserve University 20 years ago are suddenly dying in very nasty ways. With its eclectic mixture of new technologies and classical murder mystery plot, The Violet Hour is a sleek and dark story of delayed revenge. Montanari's well-received and equally chilling first thriller, Deviant Way, is available in paperback. --Dick Adler

Review:

"Consistently surprising . . . Montanari keeps the reader deliciously off balance throughout, letting the novel accrue horrors and deft misdirections, right until its gory end." (Publishers Weekly)

"The novel is, like the nameless killer's victims, well executed. And like the killer himself, fiendishly twisted. A real page turner." (Booklist)

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0380975920
• ISBN 13: 9780380975921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356