Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:Thebestselling author of Hide and Gone draws us into the venomous mind games of a terrifying killer.
Come into my parlor . . .
For Kimberly Quincy, FBI Special Agent, it all starts with a pregnant hooker. The story Delilah Rose tells Kimberly about her johns is too horrifying to be trueâ??but prostitutes are disappearing, one by one, with no explanation, and no one but Kimberly seems to care.
Said the spider to the fly . . .
As a member of the Evidence Response Team, dead hookers arenâ??t exactly Kimberlyâ??s specialty. The young agent is five months pregnantâ??she has other things to worry about than an alleged lunatic who uses spiders to do his dirty work. But Kimberlyâ??s own mother and sister were victims of a serial killer. And now, without any bodies and with precious few clues, itâ??s all too clear that a serial killer has found the key to the perfect murder . . . or Kimberly is chasing a crime that never happened.
Kimberlyâ??s caught in a web more lethal than any spiderâ??s, and the more she fights for answers, the more tightly sheâ??s trapped. What she doesnâ??t know is that sheâ??s closeâ??too closeâ??to a psychopath who makes womenâ?? s nightmares come alive, and if he has his twisted way, it wonâ??t be long before itâ?? s time for Ki… (más)
Kimberly Quincy is contacted by local police about a hooker claiming a serial killer is preying on her colleagues. Arguing about slowing down because of her pregnancy, Kimberly gets too close to the killer, who wants her to become a victim too. ( )
The creepy factor of this book is the killer has a thing for spiders, as in brown recluse and tarantula spiders. The premise of the story is the abduction and death of a series of prostitutes, but that's incidental to the heroine, Kimberly Quincy, finding the bad guy and the bad guy abducting and controlling children. Although it's not graphically descriptive of what he does to the children, the imagination fills in plenty - from that standpoint it's a bit gruesome and not for the faint hearted. An average thriller/mystery. ( )
This was a typical Lisa Gardner mystery. I really enjoy reading her books when I want something fast and entertaining. she manages to weave a tale that is both intriguing and a bit mysterious.
I realize that I have not said anything about the content of the book, but is this really a book that one has to go into a lot of detail about? It is not. If you like FBI crime series, then this is a book that you will enjoy. ( )
"In the U.S., the dangerous spiders include the Widows and the Reclusive Spiders."
FROM Spiders and Their Kin, BY HERBERT W. AND LORNA R. LEVI, A GOLDEN GUIDE FROM ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 2002
TWO
Spiders are always on the lookout for prey, but predators are also on the lookout for spiders. Dlever disguises and quick getaways help keep spiders out of trouble."
FROM Spiders and Their Kin, BY HERBERT W. AND LORNA R. LEVI, A GOLDEN GUIDE FROM ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 2002
THREE
The brown recluse spins a medium-sized irregular web with a maze of threads extending in all directions without definite pattern or plan."
FROM Biology of the Brown Reclusive Spider, BY JULIA MAXINE HITE, WILLIAM J. GLADNEY, J. L. LANCASTER, JR., AND W. H. WHITCOMB, DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY, DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, FAYETTEVILLE, MAY 1966
FOUR
The initial bite is usually painless."
FROM Brown Recluse Spider, BY MICHAEL F. POTTER, URBAN ENTOMOLOGIST, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
SIX
Brown Recluse Spiders are challenging to control, largely because of their secretive habits."
FROM Brown Recluse Spider, BY MICHAEL F. POTTER, URBAN ENTOMOLOGIST, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
"When the spider first spins the silk, it is liquid, but it soon hardens into thread that can be stronger than steel."
FROM Freaky Facts About Spiders, BY CHRISTINE MORLEY, 2007
EIGHT
Spiders are exclusively carnivorous."
FROM How to Know the Spiders, THIRD EDITION, BY F. J. KASTON, 1978
NINE
For laypersons the most distinguishing feature of a brown recluse is a dark violin-shaped mark on its back, with the neck of the violin pointing toward the rear (abdomen) of the spider."
FROM Brown Recluse Spider, BY MICHAEL F. POTTER, URBAN ENTOMOLOGIST, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
TEN
Most [spider] species are not particular as to the insects eaten but will take whatever happens to come their way."
FROM How to Know the Spiders, THIRD EDITION, BY F. J. KASTON, 1978
ELEVEN
There are two ways in which spiders ingest food. Those with weak jaws puncture the body of the insect with their fangs and then slowly alternate between injecting digestive fluid through this hold and sucking back the liquefied tissues, until there remains but an empty shell ... others with strong jaws mash the insect to a pulp between the jaws, as the digestive fluid is regurgitated over it."
FROM How to Know the Spiders, THIRD EDITION, BY F. J. KASTON, 1978
THIRTEEN
"The spider's appetite may often appear insatiable, the abdomen swelling to accommodate added food.
FROM How to Know the Spiders, THIRD EDITION, BY F. J. KASTON, 1978
FOURTEEN
...the venom was used primarily as a paralyzing agent to inactivate the prey, which may actually remain alive for four to five days. The spider then feeds at it convenience.
FROM Biology of the Brown Reclusive Spider, BY JULIA MAXINE HITE, WILLIAM J. GLADNEY, J. L. LANCASTER, JR., AND W. H. WHITCOMB, DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY, DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, FAYETTEVILLE, MAY 1966
SIXTEEN
In most species, the egg sac is closely guarded by the female."FROM "SPIDER REARING," WWW.INSECTED.ARIZONA.EDU/SPIDERREAR.HTM
SEVENTEEN
A spider eats about 2,000 insects a year. Without spiders the world would be overrun with bugs."
FROM Freaky Facts About Spiders, BY CHRISTINE MORLEY, 2007
NINETEEN
Among the remarkable phenomena occurring in spiders ranks the peculiar behavior associated with mating. These courtship maneuvers are usually started by the male and continued by him, though in some cases, the female may also take part after she has reached a certain pitch of excitement."
FROM How to Know the Spiders, THIRD EDITION, BY F. J. KASTON, 1978
TWENTY
"The spider is well adapted to living indoors with humans."
FROM Brown Recluse Spider, BY MICHAEL F. POTTER, URBAN ENTOMOLOGIST, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
TWENTY-ONE
Recluse spiders are six-eyed; their legs do not extend sideways. They weave a sheet of sticky silk in which they entangle insects."
FROM Spiders and Their King, BY HERBERT W. AND LORNA R. LEVI, A GOLDEN GUIDE ROM ST. MARTINS PRESS, 2002
TWENTY-TWO
"The brown recluse hunts at night seeking insect prey, either alive or dead."
FROM Brown Recluse Spider, BY MICHAEL F. POTTER, URBAN ENTOMOLOGIST, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
TWENTY-THREE
"For most species ... a husband's place is 'in the digestive tract of his wife.'"
FROM "SPIDER WOMAN," BY BURKHARD BILGER, New Yorker, MARCH 5, 2007
TWENTY-FOUR
"When food is short and spiderlings are huntry, they may even eat each other.
FROM Spiders and Their Kin, BY HERBERT W. AND LORNA R. LEVI, A GOLDEN GUIDE FROM ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 2002
TWENTY-SIX
"A stinging sensation is usually followed by intense pain. The tissue affected locally by the venom is killed and gradually sloughs away, exposing the underlying muscles."
FROM Biology of the Brown Reclusive Spider, BY JULIA MAXINE HITE, WILLIAM J. GLADNEY, J. L. LANCASTER, JR., AND W. H. WHITCOMB, DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY, DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, FAYETTEVILLE, MAY 1966
TWENTY-SEVEN
"Time spent in the company of spiders can cure anyone of his sentimentality about nature."
FROM "SPIDER WOMAN," BY BURKHARD BILGER, New Yorker, MARCH 5, 2007
TWENTY-EIGHT
"Just as birds can be identified by their singing, so spiders can be sorted by their methods of killing
FROM "SPIDER WOMAN," BY BURKHARD BILGER, New Yorker, MARCH 5, 2007
TWENTY-NINE
"Indoors, these spiders are commonly found in houses and associated outbuildings, boiler houses, schools, churches, stores, hotels and other such buildings."
FROM Biology of the Brown Reclusive Spider, BY JULIA MAXINE HITE, WILLIAM J. GLADNEY, J. L. LANCASTER, JR., AND W. H. WHITCOMB, DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY, DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, FAYETTEVILLE, MAY 1966
THIRTY-ONE
"Spiders are experts in the art of poisoning. A spider releases venom through fangs that look like curved claws beneath its eyes."
FROM Freaky Facts About Spiders, BY CHRISTINE MORLEY, 2007
THIRTY-TWO
"During daylight hours, brown recluse spiders typically retreat to dark, secluded areas."
FROM Brown Recluse Spider, BY MICHAEL F. POTTER, URBAN ENTOMOLOGIST, UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
THIRTY-THREE
"To compensate for their weaknesses, spiders have evolved an array of weapons, tactics, and freakish mutations that ring to mind a tiny band of supervillains."
FROM "SPIDER WOMAN," BY BURKHARD BILGER, New Yorker, MARCH 5, 2007
THIRTY-FIVE
"Spiders may feed on other spiders, and because of this tendency to cannibalism a social or communal life is hardly to be expected."
FROM How to Know the Spiders, THIRD EDITION, BY F. J. KASTON, 1978
THIRTY-SIX
"Spiders tend to be solitary hunters..."
FROM "SPIDER WOMAN," BY BURKHARD BILGER, New Yorker, MARCH 5, 2007
THIRTY-SEVEN
"...spiders kill at an astonishing pace. One Dutch researcher estimates that there are some five trillion spiders in the Netherlands alone, each of which consumes about a tenth of a gram of meat a day. Were their victims people instead of insects, they would need only three days to eat all sixteen and a half million Dutchmen"
FROM "SPIDER WOMAN," BY BURKHARD BILGER, New Yorker, MARCH 5, 2007
THIRTY-EIGHT
"The jumping spider has huge eyes that detect even tiny movements of passing insects. First, it creeps up on its prey. Then it jumps, opening its jaws mid-flight to deliver a lethal bite when it lands on its victim.""
FROM Freaky Facts About Spiders, BY CHRISTINE MORLEY, 2007
FORTY
""The Portia spider is a real cannibal. It creeps into another spider's web and tugs on the silk. The web owner crawls toward the intruder, thinking it has trapped an insect. Then the Portia spider attacks, kills and eats the surprised web spider."
FROM Freaky Facts About Spiders, BY CHRISTINE MORLEY, 2007
FORTY-ONE
"Experiments with the venom of the brown recluse have shown that both sexes are capable of inflicting poisonous bites to mammals."
FROM Biology of the Brown Reclusive Spider, BY JULIA MAXINE HITE, WILLIAM J. GLADNEY, J. L. LANCASTER, JR., AND W. H. WHITCOMB, DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY, DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, FAYETTEVILLE, MAY 1966
FORTY-TWO
"Spider evolution, though, has mostly murderous ends."
FROM "SPIDER WOMAN," BY BURKHARD BILGER, New Yorker, MARCH 5, 2007
FORTY-THREE
"Social spiders work together in construction teams to build enormous spider cities. [They] also feed in groups so that they can catch and share a larger prey."
FROM Freaky Facts About Spiders, BY CHRISTINE MORLEY, 2007
Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:Thebestselling author of Hide and Gone draws us into the venomous mind games of a terrifying killer.
Come into my parlor . . .
For Kimberly Quincy, FBI Special Agent, it all starts with a pregnant hooker. The story Delilah Rose tells Kimberly about her johns is too horrifying to be trueâ??but prostitutes are disappearing, one by one, with no explanation, and no one but Kimberly seems to care.
Said the spider to the fly . . .
As a member of the Evidence Response Team, dead hookers arenâ??t exactly Kimberlyâ??s specialty. The young agent is five months pregnantâ??she has other things to worry about than an alleged lunatic who uses spiders to do his dirty work. But Kimberlyâ??s own mother and sister were victims of a serial killer. And now, without any bodies and with precious few clues, itâ??s all too clear that a serial killer has found the key to the perfect murder . . . or Kimberly is chasing a crime that never happened.
Kimberlyâ??s caught in a web more lethal than any spiderâ??s, and the more she fights for answers, the more tightly sheâ??s trapped. What she doesnâ??t know is that sheâ??s closeâ??too closeâ??to a psychopath who makes womenâ?? s nightmares come alive, and if he has his twisted way, it wonâ??t be long before itâ?? s time for Ki
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