Whisper in the Dark

by Robert Gregory Browne

Book Overview

Detective Frank Blackburn finds a beautiful Jane Doe naked, incoherent, covered with blood--and brandishing a pair of scissors near the scene of a brutal murder. Is she the perpetrator? Or is she the only eyewitness to the handiwork of a twisted serial killer? Original.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312358660
• ISBN13: 9780312358662
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding suspense thriller!

Whisper in the Dark is a tightly written, edge of your seat suspense thriller with moments of laugh out loud humor. Frank Blackburn, the protagonist in this book will stay with you for a long time to come. I am seriously hoping for a sequel.

Gripping....and a big let down

This book was absolutely gripping all the way through. I read it in just a few days and could not put it down. However, once I got the to the end and everything was explained, it was disappointing. I won't give it away, but unless you like "metaphysical fantasy punchlines", I think you too will feel that same disappointment. This author had the opportunity to go in any direction to explain all the spooky events that take place throughout the novel and keep you hooked. When I got to the explanation, I felt duped. A fast paced, interest holding book. Just brace yourself for the end.

electrifying thriller

A taxi driver almost runs down a naked woman covered with blood; she attacks him with a pair of scissors. Not far away in a run down apartment, Detective Frank Blackburn finds blood all over the place with a brutalized male corpse in the middle. When he hears of the Jane Doe, he rushes over to see her before the ambulance takes her to the hospital. He finds her incoherent and violent; he assumes she is in shock from having witnessed the murder in the apartment. When the medical examiner looks at the body he sees :) on the inside of the lip made by a Power Blast cauterizing tool. The serial killer Vincent is back in Ocean City, California after being away for a year following his last debacle: eight dead women. His signature is cutting off the left ear of his victim. When psychiatrist Dr. Michael Tolan examines Jane Doe, he freaks out as she no longer has tracks and her eyes are changed colors from what was on her chart; she is turning into his beloved wife Abby who died one year ago today as Vincent's eighth victim. The serial killer is playing with Tolan's mind because he apparently did not kill Abby and wants to punish Michael for giving him credit for something he did not do; Vincent believes it is more likely Michael killed his wife as he suffered a blackout during the time she was murdered. Blackburn needs to get to Tolan before he becomes the next dead model of Vincent Van Gogh. This is a pulse pounding electrifying thriller in which nothing is at it first seems. Jane Doe is a homeless justice who is being used by a borrower, in this case Abby, to try to communicate with Michael. Even her bone structure changes as she begins to take on the shape of Talon's late wife. Blackburn diligently works the case with everything he can muster; yet remains unaware that the supernatural is involved as he strictly hunts for a human serial killer. Robert Gregory Browne writes an exciting paranormal police procedural that will have readers wondering if Vincent comes from beyond the grave too. Harriet Klausner