Flashpoint

by Lynn Hightower

Book Overview

/HIGHTOWER LYNN; A/ Handcuffed to the wheel of his car, he is doused with gasoline and set on fire. Police Specialist Sonora Blair of the Cincinnati Homicide Division is awakened in the middle of the night with an urgent summons to take a deathbed statement. The victim can hardly speak, but he gives Sonora one key detail--the psycho who commited this gruesome crime is a woman.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061094560
• ISBN13: 9780061094569
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: HarperTorch
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

THIS BOOK IS HARD TO PUT DOWN

And doesn't that say it all ? Lynn Hightower has great use of language and easy realistic imagery.....she really lets you to "see" locations, character's facial expressions, and maybe more importantly, she builds suspense slowly. Some books make the reader do a lot of the work, piecing together incomplete or disjointed chunks of the novel, but not this time. This is a book that is easy to "fall into"; it's a hard book to put down. And even though technically a whodunit crime book, FLASHPOINT is not an ugly look at American society. It's more a study of the protagonist, Sonora, and her life as a Mom, sister, partner, detective, and woman and how she deals with the divergent aspects of her life. It's a great book and an easy one to recommend.

The best novel I have read in a long while!

This was my first Lynn Hightower novel. Believe me when I tell you that it definetly has not been my only! This novel grips you from the first few chapters and doesn't let go until the very end! The plot is simple but very interesting! I read this book int two days, which is amazing considering I work full time, attend night classes and have a toddler at home! I highly recommend this novel to anyone that loves mysteries!!!!

BEST NOVEL I'VE EVER READ

GREAT DETAIL. GRIPS THE READER FROM CHAPTER ONE. YOU WILL NOT PUT THIS ONE DOWN UNTIL YOU ARE ON THE LAST PAGE. THEN, YOU WILL RUN OUT TO GET COPIES OF HER OTHER BOOKS. WILL WE EVER SEE KEETON AGAIN? I KEEP SENDING LYNN MESSAGES TO BRING HIM BACK.

Right at home

Being from Southern Ohio, this book was like reading something about someone I knew. It was homey and the characters were easy to respond to and understand. The entire story flowed gracefully from one point to the next. Any one who can mention Ale 8 One in a novel is a readable author in my book.

Definetly, a must read of any suspense reader!

Homicide Detective Sonora Blair envisions Dante's Inferno and thinks that this is what these men have gone through. A truly riveting novel about a pyscho killer and a female homicide detective. Lynn S. Hightower, knows how to write and twist the insides of her readers. Insightful look into the feelings of her characters, love, hate, fear, desire are all captured masterfully. I recommend this book wholeheartedly and with no fingernails left!