Video Kill [Paperback]

Joanne Fluke (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Pocket (March 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671666630
• ISBN-13: 978-0671666637
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,473,395 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joanne Fluke is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 novels. Like Hannah Swensen, she was born and raised in a small town in rural Minnesota, but now lives in sunny Southern California. She is currently working on her next Hannah Swensen mystery and readers are welcome to contact her at the following e-mail address, [e-mail], or by visiting her website at www.MurderSheBaked.com.

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4.0 out of 5 stars "A maniac is taping Hollywood's starlets--", March 4, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Video Kill (Paperback)

"--And they're dying for the role..."

Set in Los Angeles, California, "Video Kill" follows Erik Neilsen and Tony Rocca, a Hollywood writing team trying to sell their movie script about "a psychopath who videotape[s] his victims as he murder[s] them", but with no luck. That is, until almost a year later when a handful of actresses are murdered one by one, similar to how Erik and Tony had written. Now the two writers are called in to create a screenplay based on the Video Killer's movie-remaking murders, a la Alfred Hitchcock style (eg, "Frenzy," "Rear Window," etc.).

Despite the "Psycho"-like front cover of a naked dead girl in a bathtub, the murder scenes aren't very graphic or sexualized, which non-horror readers might appreciate. It was a fast read, though (I finished it in a couple days), but it wasn't as suspenseful as I'd hoped. The red herrings weren't very believable for one, and I guessed the killer partway through, mainly due to his/her work history and aversion to blood. The suspense near the end was kind of ruined for me, too, when his/her identity was revealed a little too soon. Still, this being my first Joanne Fluke book, I look forward to reading more by her. Along with several other horror novels published by Pocket Books in the '80s, this one was pretty enjoyable.