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Murder as an art
http://looneybooks79.blog/2025/08/25/robert-hunter-9-gallery-of-the-dead/
The LAPD's Ultraviolet Crime Unit is called upon a new murder scene, so gruesome that even the local LAPD cops never experienced anything like this. Linda Parker was killed, her hands and feet cut off and her body skinned while the room was 'painted' in her blood. Robert Hunter and Carlos Garcia are called upon the scene and can't believe their eyes. Both are stunned by the gruesomeness and extreme violence and are wondering what is behind this killer's motivation.
In a turn of events Hunter and Garcia are suddenly met with the FBI and their Behavioral Analysis Unit, led by Adrian Kennedy, who take over this case as it appears to be another death in a series, each killing different and each victim splayed out differently but with a few similarities, proving them all to be killed by the same murderer. The LAPD's UVC unit has to work together with the FBI, which leads to a few struggles and fights over jurisdiction and 'who has the bigger...' but eventually they manage to work together.
That way they manage to find a solution for some of the clues left by the killer who wants to express his love for killing by making it an art form. After one of the FBI agents provokes this killer, the lives of a lot of people, among them the agents working on the case, are in danger.
For the first time in the Robert Hunter series there's a character I truly despise because of the way that person acts. This character and Garcia clash in a way I would clash with them as well and I certainly love Garcia for his wit. The 'High and Mighty - I am the better agent' way of acting by this character is something I hated but it fits perfectly in the story and has its own ramifications! So well done, Chris, for making me hate one of your 'good guys'!
It's great to see Hunter starting to have a life beyond his work although combining both remains a hard job, even for him. 'Gallery of the Dead' is definitely a very fast-paced, vicious and gruesome thriller, typical of the genius author Chris Carter. There's a true motivation behind the killings, there's a cat-and-mouse-game played by the killer and the hunters and there's an unexpected open ending which leads into the next novel and which will be a sequel (Carter's first) to one of his previous Hunter-novels! I honestly think this is one of the best in the series so far. And I can't wait for the reactions in Belgium and The Netherlands when the Dutch translation will come out.
The LAPD's Ultraviolet Crime Unit is called upon a new murder scene, so gruesome that even the local LAPD cops never experienced anything like this. Linda Parker was killed, her hands and feet cut off and her body skinned while the room was 'painted' in her blood. Robert Hunter and Carlos Garcia are called upon the scene and can't believe their eyes. Both are stunned by the gruesomeness and extreme violence and are wondering what is behind this killer's motivation.
In a turn of events Hunter and Garcia are suddenly met with the FBI and their Behavioral Analysis Unit, led by Adrian Kennedy, who take over this case as it appears to be another death in a series, each killing different and each victim splayed out differently but with a few similarities, proving them all to be killed by the same murderer. The LAPD's UVC unit has to work together with the FBI, which leads to a few struggles and fights over jurisdiction and 'who has the bigger...' but eventually they manage to work together.
That way they manage to find a solution for some of the clues left by the killer who wants to express his love for killing by making it an art form. After one of the FBI agents provokes this killer, the lives of a lot of people, among them the agents working on the case, are in danger.
For the first time in the Robert Hunter series there's a character I truly despise because of the way that person acts. This character and Garcia clash in a way I would clash with them as well and I certainly love Garcia for his wit. The 'High and Mighty - I am the better agent' way of acting by this character is something I hated but it fits perfectly in the story and has its own ramifications! So well done, Chris, for making me hate one of your 'good guys'!
It's great to see Hunter starting to have a life beyond his work although combining both remains a hard job, even for him. 'Gallery of the Dead' is definitely a very fast-paced, vicious and gruesome thriller, typical of the genius author Chris Carter. There's a true motivation behind the killings, there's a cat-and-mouse-game played by the killer and the hunters and there's an unexpected open ending which leads into the next novel and which will be a sequel (Carter's first) to one of his previous Hunter-novels! I honestly think this is one of the best in the series so far. And I can't wait for the reactions in Belgium and The Netherlands when the Dutch translation will come out.
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