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A review by weaselweader
Chill of Night by John Lutz
4.0
“You’ve got a reputation for bending the rules, even the law …”
The justice system doesn’t always get it right. Sometimes, even when a defendant’s guilt is more obvious than the nose on Cyrano de Bergerac’s face, the system slips up and a defendant goes free – scot free, laughing all the way home, and shaking their heads in wonder at a system that screwed up so badly! But one grieving father, whose son’s rapist and murderer was one of the lucky killers who walked away from court a free man, is having none of it. He’s taking the law into his own hands and handing out his own vigilante form of revenge justice. Systematically killing the foreperson of juries that handed down these mistaken “innocent” verdicts, his signature is a red “J” left behind with each victim. The media calls him the “Justice Killer”.
Calling Detective Artemis Beam out of retirement to fight fire with fire seems appropriate.
”You’ve got a reputation for bending the rules, even the law, in the interest of seeing justice done. And as you’re already retired and more or less don’t give a shit, you’ll bend whatever you have to in order to nail this letter J scumbag.”
CHILL OF NIGHT is a high-speed one-on-one police procedural thriller – police detective vs serial killer, hunter vs prey, man vs man – and, from first page to last, it’s a successful, gripping, thoroughly entertaining page turner. And … wait for that final reveal … it’s a jaw-dropper that precious few and far between readers will ever see coming. John Lutz can count me a fan and I’ll happily read more of his work given the chance. Definitely recommended.
Paul Weiss
The justice system doesn’t always get it right. Sometimes, even when a defendant’s guilt is more obvious than the nose on Cyrano de Bergerac’s face, the system slips up and a defendant goes free – scot free, laughing all the way home, and shaking their heads in wonder at a system that screwed up so badly! But one grieving father, whose son’s rapist and murderer was one of the lucky killers who walked away from court a free man, is having none of it. He’s taking the law into his own hands and handing out his own vigilante form of revenge justice. Systematically killing the foreperson of juries that handed down these mistaken “innocent” verdicts, his signature is a red “J” left behind with each victim. The media calls him the “Justice Killer”.
Calling Detective Artemis Beam out of retirement to fight fire with fire seems appropriate.
”You’ve got a reputation for bending the rules, even the law, in the interest of seeing justice done. And as you’re already retired and more or less don’t give a shit, you’ll bend whatever you have to in order to nail this letter J scumbag.”
CHILL OF NIGHT is a high-speed one-on-one police procedural thriller – police detective vs serial killer, hunter vs prey, man vs man – and, from first page to last, it’s a successful, gripping, thoroughly entertaining page turner. And … wait for that final reveal … it’s a jaw-dropper that precious few and far between readers will ever see coming. John Lutz can count me a fan and I’ll happily read more of his work given the chance. Definitely recommended.
Paul Weiss