The Dying Hour introduces Jason Wade, a rookie crime reporter with The Seattle Mirror, a loner who grew up in the shadow of a brewery in one of the city’s blue-collar neighborhoods. At The Seattle Mirror, he is competing for the single full-time job being offered through the paper’s intense intern program. But unlike the program’s other young reporters, who attended big name schools and worked at … at other big metro dailies, Wade put himself through community college, and lacked the same experience.
Wade struggles with his haunting past as he pursues the story of Karen Harding, a college student whose car was found abandoned on a lonely stretch of highway in the Pacific Northwest. How could this beloved young woman with the altruistic nature simply vanish?
Wade battles mounting odds and cut-throat competition to unearth the truth behind Karen Harding’s disturbing case. Her disappearance is a story he cannot give up, never realizing the toll it could exact from him. The Dying Hour is a bone-chilling, mesmerizing page-turner that introduces readers to an all-too-human young hero who journeys into the darkest regions of the human heart to confront a nightmare.
The International Thriller Writers (ITW), selected The Dying Hour as a finalist for a Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original, 2006.
Rick Mofina is a former journalist who has interviewed murderers on death row, flown over L.A. with the LAPD and patrolled with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police near the Arctic. He’s also reported from the Caribbean, Africa and Kuwait’s border with Iraq. His books have been published in nearly 30 countries, including an illegal translation produced in Iran.
His work has been praised by James Patterson, Dean Koontz, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Tess Gerritsen, Jeffery Deaver, Sandra Brown, James Rollins, Brad Thor, Nick Stone, David Morrell, Allison Brennan, Heather Graham, Linwood Barclay, Peter Robinson, Håkan Nesser and Kay Hooper.
The Crime Writers of Canada, The International Thriller Writers and The Private Eye Writers of America have listed his titles among the best in crime fiction. As a two-time winner of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award, a three-time Thriller Award finalist and a two-time Shamus Award finalist, the Library Journal calls him, “One of the best thriller writers in the business.”
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The book is well written and has a very tight plot. There are twists that are unexpected. The characters are well developed and come alive in the story. It can be quite graphic in places.
This is a wonderful book. I could not put it down. It was a mystery, some Romance
And A moving story about aCub Reporter andhis fight to solve thismystery
Fantastic book. It made me happy, sad, breathless, and kept me coming back for more. I definitely want to read more from this author.
Loved this book, in fact, read the next two immediately! Hope he writes more Jason Wade books! All 3 had me hooked from first pages!
A little bit dark, but if that’s what you enjoy, it is fairly intense.
I enjoy books by Rick Mofina
Can’t wait to read more books by this author
If you like thrillers and if the author is Rick Mofina just get the book. It is always a page turner. In this story Jason Wade is and intern crime reporter trying to get the one job available with several other interns in competition. When a woman doesn’t show up at her sister’s after a fight with her boyfriend, Jason is sent to find out what happened. Refusing to give up he hunts leads that break the case wide open. There is some profanity but I appreciate the author’s limits.
This was one of the scariest books I’ve read.
Another of Rick Mofina’s excellent books.
Enjoyed the new main character . Hope to read more of him.
I have trouble putting his books down. He has become a favorite of mine.
Well written – I want more books by this author!
This is a great mystery and suspense – kept me interested and the book was hard to put down! The killer is pure evil. I liked the behind-the-scenes in the newsroom.
Love Rick Mofina’s characters and he’s an awesome storyteller!
A great read did not want to put the book down. Took a lot of unexpected turns.
Suspenseful and interesting. Great read.
Another of Rick Mofina’s great stories. Wonderful characters.
Gripping story telling
Love Rick Mofina’s books/writing.