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    The Body Counter
    The Body Counter
    The Body Counter
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Body Counter

    Written by Anne Frasier

    Narrated by Emily Sutton-Smith

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    About this audiobook

    From a New York Times bestselling author comes the chilling follow-up to the Thriller Award winner The Body Reader.

    Months after discovering the mastermind behind her own kidnapping, Detective Jude Fontaine is dealing with the past the only way she knows how: by returning to every dark corner of it. But it’s a new, escalating series of mass slayings that has become her latest obsession at Homicide.

    At first, Jude and her partner, Detective Uriah Ashby, can see no pattern to the seemingly random methods, the crime scenes, or the victims—until they’re approached by a brilliantly compulsive math professor. He believes that the madman’s next move is not incalculable; in fact, it’s all part of a sequential and ingenious numerical riddle. His theory is adding up. The body count is rising.

    But when the latest victim is found in Jude’s apartment, the puzzle comes with a personal twist that’s going to test the breaking point of her already-fragile state of mind. For all she knows, her number may be up.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 12, 2018
    ISBN9781543698268
    The Body Counter
    Author

    Anne Frasier

    Anne Frasier is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than twenty novels that range from thrillers to memoirs. She is a RITA winner for her romantic suspense books and a recipient of the Daphne du Maurier Award for paranormal romance. Her thrillers have been featured by the Mystery Guild, the Literary Guild, and the Book of the Month Club. Her memoir, The Orchard, received a B+ review in Entertainment Weekly; was an O, The Oprah Magazine "fall pick"; was named an American Library Association "One Book, One Community" read; and was singled out as a Librarians' Best Book of 2011. Her most recent novel, Truly Dead, is the highly anticipated fourth installment in the Elise Sandburg series. Frasier currently divides her time between Saint Paul, Minnesota, and her writing studio in rural Wisconsin.

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    • 5/5
      God, this book had me on an even bigger rollercoaster than the previous one which is a rare thing for me, but the author just went bigger and wilder with this book and THAT ENDING..... let me tell you ... my JAW dropped for an entire minute in disbelieve at how I did not catch that.... EPIC sequel.
      Highly Highly recommend it to mystery/ thriller fans.
    • 5/5
      I finally found a good series after a very long time!!! Strongly recommend all the books in the series
    • 5/5
      Detective Jude Fontaine is trying to get over her kidnapping and torture by throwing herself into her job as a homicide detective. Her current case, a series of gruesome murders where the victims have their throats cut and are posed afterward, is keeping her mind occupied.But it doesn't stop the nightmares.Her downstairs neighbor Elliot has a broom by his bed so that he can pound on his ceiling to wake her up. But he wants more from Jude. He says he's a student at the University of Minnesota majoring in photography, but he seems to have chosen Jude and her crime scenes as his only subject. He's keeping secrets are trying to get close to her. As the crimes escalate with the victims mirroring the Fibonacci series, Jude and her partner Uriah are working themselves to exhaustion. A health scare for Uriah makes Jude question what he means to her life and makes her wonder if she can have friends and relationships again. Thus far, her only real relationship is a sort of distant one with a feral cat she has named Roof Cat.This story is told from a few points of view including Elliot's and Jude's and a mysterious young woman who calls herself Clementine. It is a high-tension story with a fast pace and intriguing characters.
    • 4/5
      The Body CounterDetective Jude Fontaine Mysteries, Book 2By: Anne FrasierNarrated by: Emily Sutton-SmithA good follow up book but it wasn't as good as book one but still good! A serial killer and it is messing with her slightly unstable mind. I think it went too overboard on our gal's weakness instead of her strengths. I was a bit out off by that. Although I liked the book, I don't think I will read more in the series if she is going to cripple the heroine so much. The narration was excellent!
    • 4/5
      Anne Frasier is the pen name of Theresa Weir, widely known for her excellent memoir, The Orchard. Her fiction stands out, in my opinion, for her deep and compassionate understanding of physic pain. This book is the second in a police procedural series set in Minneapolis about 35-year-old Police Detective Jude Fontaine. (The author does a great job in filling readers in on what happened in the earlier book, so this one can easily be read as a standalone.) Jude's police career was interrupted when she was kidnapped. She had spent three years prisoner in a small cage, and during that time she was tortured, tased and repeatedly raped before she managed to get out of the cage and kill her captor. Now she has stark white hair and numerous scars making her instantly recognizable to the people of Minneapolis. She became even more well known after - in the last book and shortly after she rejoined the force - she killed her estranged father who not only was the governor, but who was a serial rapist and killer in his spare time, abetted by his son, whom Jude also killed. When she came back on the job, she was partnered with the head of homicide, Detective Uriah Ashby. The partnership is working out, although Jude is slow to trust anyone, and their relationship is fragile, “still in the building-trust stage….”Uriah too has had emotional trauma in his past. His wife committed suicide, and he suffers from repeated and debilitating migraines.Lately there have been a series of killings that show a similar M.O. to one another, but with the number of bodies increasing. A math professor contacts Jude and Uriah and points out that the killer is using the Fibonacci sequence: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13 ….Jude and Uriah somehow have to keep their own demons at bay as they struggle to find this new demon, because the imperative of the Fibonacci sequence means there will be an ever greater number of dead to come.Evaluation: This is an interesting and complex story, and the author’s character development of the two troubled main protagonists is excellent. The murders are gruesome, but the horror is never diminished or normalized. I look forward to the next installment!