Retribution [Hardcover]

Jilliane Hoffman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 29, 2004

One rainy night in New York City, outstanding law student Chloe Larson wakes from a terrible nightmare. But it's not a nightmare - she is savagely violated in her own bedroom. Twelve years later she is forging a formidable reputation as an attorney and a vicious serial killer is on the loose.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This American former prosecutor's crime thriller is superlative and deserves to have sold for "unprecedented sums throughout the world". A law student is raped and tortured in her own New York apartment by a masked man. Still in emotional hell 12 years later with her looks and name disguised so the perpetrator - whoever he is - cannot track her down, she has become one of the state prosecutors in Florida and faces in court a psycho arrested for the most gruesome serial killings of women. Immediately she recognises his voice. The plot storms along from peaks of terror to resoluteness to anguished nightmare, with just enough love interest to give moments of respite from the macabre. A dream of a debut thriller.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 512 pages
• Publisher: Michael Joseph (January 29, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0718146743
• ISBN-13: 978-0718146740
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,787,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars One Of The Best Books I Have Read In Awhile, November 10, 2007

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S. Shepherd "LeDoux Luver" (Sandy, Utah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Retribution (Hardcover)

For a first novel, this book is good. I love the plot and the twist in the end leaves you stunned! The characters are written very well also.