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Nightwatcher [Mass Market Paperback]

Charles Wilson (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)


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July 1997
While three escaped inmates hold Davis County, Mississippi, in terror, the only witness to the savage killing of a nurse in a hospital for the criminally insane begins to follow his own frightening agenda. Original. K. PW. "

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From Publishers Weekly

Wilson's debut--a neat mix of mystery, police procedural and terror--marks him as someone to watch. On the night three men escape from a Mississippi insane asylum, a young nurse is raped and murdered just outside the grounds. Her lawyer father, Brandon Richards, arrives at dawn, mourning Judith and bent on revenge. It soon becomes clear that the escapees are not responsible, mainly because their blood types do not match that found on the scene. But the blood is the type of Judith's estranged bisexual husband, whose boyfriend may supply an alibi. Richards teams up with Sheriff Tidmore and hires private eye J. J. Winstead (not known for legal niceties) to track down the killer. Complications proliferate: a psychopathic mass murderer says he saw the killer from his cell; the boyfriend is slain; Richards is arrested for trying to plant evidence in his son-in-law's home; tales of Judith's risky extramarital affairs cause Richards to doubt his new "friends" Tidmore and Winstead; and there are three more killings. The case is tied up neatly, but not before Wilson had led us on a complicated, occasionally harrowing chase.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The vicious murder of a vulnerable nurse outside a state mental hospital brings New Orleans lawyer Brandon Richards to the scene, panting for revenge. High anxiety and hurried pace shove the plot along, turning Richards into amateur detective, introducing any number of questionable characters, and plying the text with gratuitous standard elements (setup for a fall, Mafia father, sudden girlfriend on the scene, etc.). The speed compensates for the rapidly thinning prose, however, so just as interest dies, the book ends. A slick but negligible and trite first novel.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Leisure Books (July 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0843942754
  • ISBN-13: 978-0843942750
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,091,663 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

CONTACT: Charles Wilson can be contacted through his Literary Agent, Natasha Kern at natashakern.com 509 493 3803


 BIBLIOGRAPHY:

 Nightwatcher.
 Silent Witness.
 The Cassandra Prophecy.
 When First We Deceive.
 Direct Descendant.
 Fertile Ground.
 Extinct.
 Embryo.
 Donor.
 Game Plan.
 Deep Sleep.
 The Remora -- As an E-book Amazon.com writewordsinc.com
 In The Beginning -- short story not yet published

Charles Wilson and his wife, Linda, have three children, two boys, Destin and Charles, Jr., who are attorneys, and a daughter, Cassandra Heath, homemaker. He wrote ten mysteries and thrillers before retiring a few years ago, but has now started back writing, publishing his latest work, The Remora, as an E-book which can be found at Amazon.com and other E-book sites. He has also just finished a short story, "In The Beginning" which has not been yet sent off for publishing, but is being looked at by film agencies as a story to develop into a movie. His books are set for the most part in various places in Mississippi. For example, Nightwatcher, is a mystery set in central Mississippi and concerns a father's investigation of his daughter's murder in a hospital for the mentally-ill. Silent Witness, is also a mystery set in central Mississippi, and is the story of a woman trying to prove her husband is not a murderer. When First We Deceive, is a mystery about a serial killer on the loose, and takes place in Pass Christian, Mississippi. The Cassandra Prophecy is a mystery set in Biloxi, Mississippi, where a man tries to track down his brother's killer Mississippi. Fertile Ground, is a scientific thriller and takes place in Jackson, Mississippi, and deals with doctors who visit Brazil discover a virus that turns those infected into maddened killers. Direct Descendant is a scientific thriller and occurs in Memphis, Tennessee, and is a story about a scientist uses DNA from a prehistoric body to implant into the egg of a prostitute to prove his theory that ancient man was very little different from modern man, and brings back two killers in the form of a pair of blond-haired twins. Extinct, is about a Megalodon, the prehistoric ancestor of the Great White Shark, coming back to terrify Gulf Coast beaches. Embryo, is a story of children gestated outside the womb with disastrous results. Game Plan is a thriller and is the story of a military experiment where a brain-chip that gives its recipients extraordinary powers is implanted into the brains of prisoners who escape and start planning to take over the world, and is being looked at as a film. Donor is a scientific thriller that has to do with brain transplants from living humans. Deep sleep is a mystery centered around a killing at a psychological complex. In The Beginning is a short story that has to do with how super intelligent robots began their quest for world domination.
Wilson has received extraordinary praise on almost all of his works, including John Grisham calling Nightwatcher, "Splendid! A lean, tight, compelling story that was over much too fast", The Los Angeles Times twice calling him a "Wizard Plotter", and Ed Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene Magazine and book critic for Barnes & Noble, echoing that, saying, "Wilson might flat-out be the best plotter of our generation." In addition, Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus Reviews have given Wilson multiple top reviews, with Kirkus saying that Game Plan contains enough "..slaps on the cheeks to keep you awake half the night", and one of his other works, "...rushes over you like a jolt of adrenalin" Wilson can be contacted through his Literary Agent, Natasha Kern at natashakern.com

 

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping but reminscent of another monster., October 14, 2002
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This review is from: Nightwatcher (Mass Market Paperback)
Within the first 30 pages I was on the edge of my seat with no plans of putting this book down. As the main characters of the plot come forward and reveal themselves, so does a memory of another book with a scene around a psychopathic mass murderer. The plot continues with as much intensity as it began rushing me to a great twist turner of an ending. This is my favorite Charles Wilson book so far, but I was constantly reminded of the similarity with another psychopathic mass murderer who has become famous in the media recently. Definitley worth reading but a copycat of a story line.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I loved it, May 3, 1998
This review is from: Nightwatcher (Mass Market Paperback)
This book was very fast paced. It was a real page turner. It kept me in suspense and made me feel like I was a part of it. Does not have any boring parts. Like some books you hit a few chapters you'd like to skip over. The story is about a woman who gets murdered in her own home. Brendan Richards, the deceased father is out to find the murderer and he won't stop til he finds him. He finds out some pretty disturbing things about his daughter he didn't know but did not let that bother him. It was very hard to decide who the murderer is, just when you think who it might be something else turns up. On a scale of 1-10, my husband gave it a 7 and I gave it a ten. But his favorite books are more adventurous type. Once in a while he reads a mystery.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Thilling reading, August 23, 1998
This review is from: Nightwatcher (Mass Market Paperback)
The father of the murdered girl, Ricards is on the go, after the killer and seems to have suspected and caught the wrong guy. Than all of a sudden he has him, the killer, in his sights. The John Douglas hospital, the keeper of the criminally insane is the best spot to have been picked for this story, the Mississippi area is very interesting. This is a thriller that will keep you on your toes, I didn't want to put this one down at all. Great reading.
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