Night Kills

by Charlotte Hughes

Book Overview

From award-winning author Charlotte Hughes, a classic tale of romantic suspense finally available again. In a small town, everybody knows everybody... The local good-time girl has just been brutally murdered, shattering the tranquillity of Lee Cates's sleepy Southern hometown. Everyone in Comfrey is relieved when an outsider who'd spent that fatal night with the victim is arrested--until it begins to look like maybe he's not guilty. Rashly probing...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380792206
• ISBN13: 9780380792207
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Everthing you need in a good suspense!

Charlotte Hughes has great talent in writing a well developed plot and great characters. This book has tons of twists and turns and will have you guessing till the very end. I hated to see the book end! You will not be disappointed in this thriller!

Keeps you guessing til the very end

Great! Charlotte Hughes has definetly found her nitche. I just finished "And After That, The Dark", and had to have more. Ms. Hughes delivered. Great southern charm and you never knew until the very end.

One Great Author

Charlotte Hughes, is a great writer. Her plot twist are excellant and very suspenseful. I would highly reccomend her works to anyone who wants an excellant read that you cannot put down. She writes about the small town, south as well if not better than other southern writers of her generation. I could live in her books.

GREAT MYSTERY

This is the first novel I have read of Ms Hughes but not the last. The characters are real and very entertaining. I especially enjoyed Lee's tart wit. I would like to see a sequal to "Night Kills."

Rural Southern thriller filled with killer suspense.

Comfrey, South Carolina is a place where everyone was well aware that Lucy Hodges was a victim of spousal abuse until her husband died in a fire. Many of the town's gossips were shocked when Lucy used the insurance money to repair her battered face into a visage that left men quaking with desire. Lucy also began to bed many of the local males, especially married ones who she could easily torment. However, Lucy again becomes a victim when someone ties her up in her own bed, butchers her face, and ultimately stabs her to death. A drunken Jack McCall, recalls having been at Lucy's house the night she was killed, but cannot remember anything else. With plenty of physical evidence on hand, the police arrest Jack for the murder. Jack has suddenly come into some cash and manages to make bail. He soon shows that there is enough evidence to look elsewhere if the cops are only willing to try. Rural Southern towns are commonly used as ideal backdrops for a Gothic melodrama because on the surface everyone knows everybody's secrets, but hidden agendas are everywhere. Charlotte Hughes demonstrates that she has the talent to perfectly capture that atmosphere while surprising her readers with escalating events of mounting suspense tied together by a difficult to detect common denominator. NIGHT KILLS is true suspense that scares the audience at every twist and turn.Harriet Klausner