A 4MK Thriller
Detective Porter and the team have been pulled from the hunt for Anson Bishop, the Four Monkey Killer, by the feds. When the body of a young girl is found beneath the frozen waters of Jackson Park Lagoon, she is quickly identified as Ella Reynolds, missing three weeks. But how did she get there? The lagoon froze months earlier. More baffling? She’s found wearing the clothes of … clothes of another girl, missing less than two days. While the detectives of Chicago Metro try to make sense of the quickly developing case, Porter secretly continues his pursuit of 4MK, knowing the best way to find Bishop is to track down his mother. When the captain finds out about Porter’s activities, he’s suspended, leaving his partners Clair and Nash to continue the search for the new killer alone.
Obsessed with catching Bishop, Porter follows a single grainy photograph from Chicago to the streets of New Orleans and stumbles into a world darker than he could have possibly imagined, where he quickly realizes that the only place more frightening than the mind of a serial killer is the mind of the mother from which he came.
Only reason it didn’t get 5 stars was it left me hanging until the next book.
Can’t wait for the next book. Hopefully it will tie up loose ends from this book.
After reading the Fifth Monkey, I could not wait to acquire a copy of The Fifth to Die to find out what happened to the main characters. I usually wait for a copy from my library, but I bought Fifth to Die as soon as I found it on Bookbub.
When I started reading, I was a bit disappointment…it started a little slow. But once I got past the parts needed to fill in new readers to the back story–WOW! It had as many twists and turns and unexpected detours as the The Fourth Monkey. Without spoiling it for readers, I will say I wish I’d waited until the next book comes out before reading this one, just so I could go right into the third book without waiting. But alas..now I have to wait. Hopefully, not too long!
Enjoyed the most of the book but did not like the cliffhanger ending.
Excellent read! Only disappointment was that it was just an installment and will be continued in another book. Had I known that I wouldn’t have purchased it.
My Review of “The Fifth to Die” by J.D. Barker Houghton Mifflin Harcourt July 10, 2018
OMG!! WOW!! YIKES!!! WARNING: Not to be read before going to sleep!!!!! Keep the lights on!! Check under the bed!! Don’t go down to the basement !! These are some of my thoughts after finishing “The Fifth to Die” by J.D. Barker. J.D. Barker’s style of writing reminds me of Stephen King. The Genres for this Novel are Thriller, Horror, Mystery, Suspense, and Fiction.
“The Fifth to Die” is a horrific, chilling, intense, frightening, edgy, thriller that had me fidgeting and gasping out loud. This is the sequel to “The Four Monkey Killer’ by J.D. Barker, which I should have read before this. Although I read this as a stand- alone, I had to play catch up, and I am sure that I missed many things. Of course I will be reading the first book. I also want to mention, I wanted to throw my Kindle at someone for the abrupt ending, and realize that I have to wait for the next novel. J.D. Barker, I hope that you are writing quickly!!!
The author describes the characters as complex and complicated. I am sure a Psychiatrist would be in heaven analyzing a few of the characters. Detective Sam Porter is obsessed with finding Anson Bishop, a serial killer with a shocking , dysfunctional childhood. The feds pull Detective Porter off the case. Several young girls have been kidnapped and a few found tortured and dead. More danger and more deaths are occurring.
Detective Sam Porter is preoccupied with finding Bishop, and feels the key to doing so is finding Bishop’s Mother. Porter has withheld from evidence Bishop’s diary which is now in his possession. Porter travels all over in his quest. There are twists and turns, and danger and well-planned out murders.
I would recommend this novel to readers that enjoy chilling thrillers. I received this ARC from NetGalley for my honest review.
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I read the whole book and at the end it said to be continued. Very disappointing
It was hard to follow at the outset, but it got better about half way thru.