Review of "The Killing Hour" by Lisa Gardner

Following her usual reputation for mysteries that keep the reader gripped in suspense, Lisa Garner brings us a new thriller. This time we meet rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quinn. Being an FBI agent is the career that Kimberly has always aspired to. Now she is on the job and finds herself in the path of a serial killer. The killer has abducted two women each time he attacks. One of them he kills right away, and the second one he kills a while later. He leaves clues on the body of the first victim as to the location of the second. Kimberly discovers one of the bodies while she is still in training at Quantico. In order to follow the case, she must beak rules and fight politics in the FBI's upper echelon. Still she is trying to beat a deadline set by this viscious killer. She wants desparately to trap him. Exciting and well-plotted, as is usual with Lisa Gardener, this is a most satisfying mystery that keeps us in its grip to the very end.