You know what I like? Books about time travel. So, when I read the
description of this book about a serial killer that can move through
time, I knew I had to read it.
THE SHIMMER starts off strong
with Sergeant Jack Redding of the Florida Highway Patrol and his
trainee, Julie Karras, chasing a car that belongs to a family who has
gone missing. When the woman driving the car takes off running from
the car after it stopped, Jack is hot in pursuit. However, she manages
to get away and Jack is left with a feeling that he has seen the woman
before... but where? What he doesn't know then is that his grandfather
hunted the same woman in 1957, but how can the same woman still be
alive and look the same as she did back then? And, what happened to
the family that owned the car?
This book is for readers that like books that are slightly different from
the usual thrillers. Or, one should perhaps say very much different
since there are a lot of odd things going on in this book, with a female
serial killer who uses "the shimmer" to travel through time. What is she
looking for that is so important, she is willing to kill for it? It will be up
to Jack to try to stop this strange woman.
THE SHIMMER is an action-filled
book that is not as straightforward as one thinks. I felt this book was
OK to read, but I wished it had grabbed my attention a little more. I felt
that the ending left me a bit dissatisfied. Still, it's a pretty interesting
book that will appeal to readers who like science fiction stories with a
bit of mystery. I will definitely read more from Carsten Stroud.
Heat meets The Sixth Sense in The
Shimmer, a classic suspense with a genre blending
element by Carsten Stroud, author of the New York
Times bestselling true crime account, Close
Pursuit.
Carsten Stroud\'s THE SHIMMER is a high octane thriller
laced with humor and a smattering of supernatural
genre-bending. Set in Florida now and during the fifties, it
focuses on two families, one headed by a cop, one by a
forensic anthropologist, whose lives are irrevocably changed
when they cross paths with a beautiful, seductive stranger.
That stranger turns out to be a cunning, time traveling
female serial killer who craves to bathe in the shimmering
afterglow that sometimes emanates when the soul leaves the
body. It also provides her a way to slip into the past so
she can right a wrong.
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