The Prettiest Feathers
by John Philpin, Patricia Sierra
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Author: John Philpin, Patricia SierraEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-03-31
ISBN: 0553762443
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Bantam
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- ISBN13: 9780553762440
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Book Reviews of The Prettiest Feathers
Book Review: The best since "Silence of the Lambs"???
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm not sure why and when I got interested in true crime and fiction about serial killers -- I'm guessing Patricia Cornwell had a lot to do with it. I found myself browsing through Amazon, looking for books by the writer of a current paperback, "The Murder Channel" that I enjoyed and reviewed for Amazon. When I pulled up Philpin's listing, I found this book. I was immediately intrigued by the quality of the reviews and the fact that the book was completely unavailable at the time on any online site I visited. Determined to make a "find", I finally located one at a local bookswap that was in terrific condition, and settled down to read.Long story short, the other reviewers are absolutely on target with their praise of this collaboration between forensic psychologist John Philpin and private investigator Patricia Sierra. Philpin must have a lot of experience getting inside the heads of brutal killers; he started with two true crime novels, added this, his first fiction book and its sequel ("Tunnel of Night") with Patricia Sierra, and has gone on to write several more.
Although the hero of the book is a woman cop, Detective Lane Frank, it feels as though the role of the profiler who is her father in the novel (Lucas Frank) must be very close to Philpin himself. Having developed the art of telling his true crime novels in part from the point of view of the accused, Philpin embarks on a masterful telling of this tale, from five different points of view; victim, killer, pursuers. This pattern, together with the cruelty of John Wolf and the masterful characterization and plot, resulted in a novel of true worth.
Not since my discovery, pre-publicity, of "The Silence of the Lambs" and the additional unearthing of "Red Dragon", have I been so impressed with a work of the macabre. Parts of The Prettiest Feathers will shock you, much of it will scare you, and all of it will propel you to the end of the tale.
And then on to the sequel, "The Tunnel of Night" -- much as I'm going to do now!
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Summary of The Prettiest Feathers
Sarah Sinclair was the perfect victim--she wanted to die.When a darkly enigmatic man approaches her in the small antiquarian book store where she works, Sarah is drawn into a slow dance toward death. A death she couldn't stop even if she wanted to. She is stalked, yet blindly charmed. And when he kills her, seductively, silently, she smiles.
Sarah's ex-husband, police officer Robert Sinclair, is the first to find her body and he calls it in to the one officer who will understand: his ex-mistress Detective Lane Frank. As Lane struggles to follow the increasingly elusive trail of clues, another macabre trail emerges--of bodies, coldly, tauntingly abandoned.
As the FBI becomes involved, Lane must fight to retain her hold on the case and her grip on Robert Sinclair, whose grief sinks him further into an alcoholic haze of despair and desperation. As a calculating last resort, Lane calls on the one man who can help her stop the killing, a forensic psychiatrist who had stepped too close to the edge, crawled too deeply into the mind of evil. She calls a profiler who has dropped out of society, living simply in a cabin in the woods far away from the madness that called to him, threatened him. Lane calls her father.
As they work together, Lane and her father slowly craft an image of a killer so brilliant he has murdered perhaps hundreds and never been caught, so cold that he cannot relinquish his power. With a tortuous trail of names and faces, the killer has insulated himself from those who would repress him and his need to kill, a need rooted in a disturbing, horrifying childhood.
And as Lane and her father grow closer to finding the killer, the game becomes personal between two men on opposing sides of evil, men on the edge of an abyss of madness, from which there is only one escape--death.
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