Handyman [Paperback]

Jean Heller (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Forge (1995)
• ASIN: B000OTS978
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Music To Their Ears., November 12, 2006

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Betty Burks "Betty Burks" (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Handyman (Hardcover)

Based on the James Taylor song, "The Handyman," the serial killer seeks out ladies of the night and the homeless at first to cut out their hearts as he tortured them. Then he killed a kindergarten teacher and a doctor while raping her in her office, thus leaving his DNA. He is deranged and blames his compulsion to kill women on his mother: "You didn't think I was man enough." He became known as the Heartbreak Killer.

He decides to move a bit higher and go after a news anchor on the television station there in Tampa, Florida, Cynthia Diamond, soothe his disaster, he really does become a handyman and sings that song constantly to stalk his next victim, a young mother of a little boy who owns an apartment complex and he is doing the contracting. Karin Janecek became so tried of hearing that song, she would turn radio off until she realizes that she is the next intended victim.

Like Tony Perkins in the movie, 'Psycho,' he blames his compulsion to kill these women on his mother and names his knife 'Opal' after her.
Lightning and God's will deprives him from throwing the child out of the 22nd floor window before he can cut the heart out of Karin. "The more confused they are, the more vulnerable." His kick is to watch the fear develop to a crescendo to the ultimate moment they die at his hands. She didn't know the fate coming to her.

She saves the baby with CPR and her husband and the police arrive in the nick of time. Thus is the end of the Handyman,the serial killer. Sometimes in real life, you get lucky. He had left souvenirs of each victim in his apartment. Some things within the power to change you can control and a lot more you can't. Karin takes comand of the things she can change and decides that eventually it comes time to move on. However, she and her busband, David, decide to stay in the place they have created and let the past die an easy death.

1.0 out of 5 stars too graphic for me, June 17, 2000

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misty vauble - See all my reviews

This review is from: Handyman (Paperback)

the first chapter in this book was very disturbing to me. which is saying a lot I had to come back to it a second time in order to finish the book. the story is good if you can get past the violence I guess.