What Doesn't Kill Her: A Thriller, by Max Allan Collins
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What Doesn't Kill Her: A Thriller, by Max Allan Collins
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“What Doesn't Kill Her is a kick-ass thrill ride from page one. This is the American answer to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” – John Gilstrap, author of High Treason and Damage Control
Jordan Rivera is an ordinary kid with an ordinary family, until a vicious killer takes it all away, sparing her, but leaving her broken. The murders of her father, mother, and brother destroy something inside Jordan, who spends ten long, mute years in an institution. Catching a glimpse of a news report about another family slaying, Jordan at last breaks her silence. Now she’s out, and she molds herself―body and mind―into an instrument of justice.
While a young detective pursues the case on his own, Jordan teams up with members of her support group, people like her, damaged by violent crime. They have their own stories of pain, heartache, and vengeance denied. With their help, Jordan will track down the killer before he can ravage any more lives. Her life―and her sanity―depends on it.
What Doesn't Kill Her: A Thriller, by Max Allan Collins - Amazon Sales Rank: #6861092 in Books
- Brand: Collins, Max Allan/ Miller, Dan John (NRT)
- Published on: 2015-05-05
- Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .50" w x 5.25" l, .16 pounds
- Running time: 8 Hours
- Binding: MP3 CD
What Doesn't Kill Her: A Thriller, by Max Allan Collins From Publishers Weekly Ten years before the main action of Collins's by-the-numbers serial killer vs. survivor-of-his-attack thriller, a man dressed in a police uniform invaded the Westlake, Ohio, home of 16-year-old Jordan Rivera. He stabbed her parents and brother to death, forced her to pose the corpses for a photo, and raped her. He spared her life so that she could tell his story to the world. Traumatized, Jordan spends the next decade in a mental health facility, where she steadfastly refrains from engaging with others. When she sees a TV news report about another family's slaughter, she emerges from her isolation. Meanwhile, local cop Mark Pryor, a high school classmate of Jordan's who has carried a torch for her for years, suspects that a serial killer is at work. Further contrivances mark this as a lesser effort from the author of the superior Nate Heller series (Target Lancer, etc.). Agent: Dominick Abel, Dominick Abel Literary Agency. (Sept.)
From Booklist Jordan Rivera has spent the last 10 years at Cleveland’s St. Dymphna’s psychiatric clinic, refusing to speak after her family was murdered in an attack she managed to survive. But when she sees a news report on a similar killing, she’s convinced her attacker is still targeting families. Resolved to avenge her family’s deaths, Jordan starts talking, and soon she’s released and making connections in a victims’ support group. As the group shares stories, they find that they are all sole survivors of unsolved attacks on their families, and they feed their hunger to fight back by reinvestigating their cases as serial killings. They find unexpected assistance from Mark Pryor, Jordan’s high-school crush, now a police detective working Jordan’s case off the books. But that may not protect them from their quarry, who’s been waiting for Jordan to abandon the clinic’s protective walls. Collins, known for his outstanding Nathan Heller historical series, courts contemporary thriller fans with the victims-turned-hunters premise and riveting amateur investigation. Some suspension of disbelief is necessary, but the ride offers sure thrills, and the company is great. --Christine Tran
Review "What Doesn't Kill Her is a kick-ass thrill ride from page one. This is the American answer to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." —John Gilstrap, author of High Treason and Damage Control
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful. Great New Collins Thriller By Randy Johnson Over the year since I first discovered his work, Max Allan Collins has become one of my favorite writers. He seems to do everything well: thrillers, straight crime, his tie-ins, non-fiction. It doesn't matter.WHAT DOESN'T KILL HER deals with a serial killer, not a new subject to be sure. But even here, Mr. Collins throws a different twist. First off, he's not even suspected by the police.There is one though.Jordan Rivera was sixteen when her parents and older brother were brutally murdered by a man who forces himself into their home. She's forced to move the bodies of her family together for pictures, then the man rapes and says he wants her to tell his story.For ten years Jordan lives in a hospital without speaking one word. Until that day she see a report on TV that a family had been brutally murdered and she knows he;s still out there.She speaks up then and is soon out with plans to find him. Somehow. Part of her release is she attend a support group for people like her: those with whole families slain. She realizes, or intuits, something else. They are all victims of the same killer and they want her to help find this monster.Also a young cop is working the case with the same thoughts. He knew Jordan, and liked her back in school, but like most young males was terrified to approach her. It's what drove him to become a cop, what happened to her family.Mr. Collins does a good job sprinkling clues throughout the novel as both the group and the young cop close in. Unknown to them, the killer was closing in on them as well.Another winner from a fine writer.Worth checking out.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Over-The-Top! By Yolanda S. Bean I think what disappointed me so much about this novel is the disparity between the strength of its first chapter and the steep decline over the following twenty chapters. The first chapter with its sheer terror, gritty violence and nail-biting tension sets the stage for a page-turning title. Unfortunately, no where else does the book live up to this amazing potential displayed. Like its cliched title, the book feels a bit like an immature idea of a serial killer book with trite and overplayed lines, ridiculously bad police-work and an overall melodramatic flair. It lacks all of the energy and authenticity present in its first chapter.It feels like even television shows have more research behind their so obviously Hollywood-ized police-work than this - where unsolved murder cases have bullets that have never been analyzed, where government-issued state IDs cannot be searched for a photograph, and a woman institutionalized for ten years emerges as a lean, mean kung fu master. Jordan Rivera, the main character, is so far from feeling like a real person that it is laughable. From her potty mouth to her ludicrous physical prowess (she takes down two armed muggers with only her bike chain), Jordan feels more cartoonish than realistic.If able to look aside the book's general absurdities, the plot itself is entertaining enough. It holds a few surprises (though certainly not the identity of the killer). Cleveland residents, however, will most likely take offense to the manner in which their city is portrayed - the police force is a joke, and apparently in a city with nearly 400,000 residents, there is only one support group for victims of violent crimes. And that fact means that coincidence isn't the driving force in this plot... With hackneyed dialogue and shallow characters, this serial killer novel hardly stands out - it may not be the worst thriller out there, but it is far from the top of the list, either. Except maybe for most ridiculous. The book ends with some pretty serious holes, but to be honest, even if those holes were filled, it wouldn't change my opinion of the book.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful. MAC Does it Again By Richard B. Schwartz Jordan Rivera has suffered. Her parents and brother were killed in what appears to have been a violent home invasion. She was not murdered, as they were, but she was raped. She is sent to a mental institution in which she declines to speak for ten years. "I had nothing to say," she later explains. Then, one day, she sees the report of another murdered family and she is ready to leave the institution and seek justice.She does so with the help of a support group whose members share similar horrific pain and horrific memories. She also learns (in what first develops as a subplot) that a boy from her high school has become a detective and is investigating her family's case. While they did not date back then, each wanted to do so.Thus, we have a classic novel of vengeance, paired with a burgeoning love story. In the hands of Max Allan Collins, this all works very nicely and the book comes to a satisfying conclusion.The story is set in Cleveland and Iowa-based Collins catches the Cleveland ethos very nicely. Essentially a character-driven story, the murderer's motivations are straightforward and suitably scary. This is not a complex, high-concept, implausible story like Thomas Harris' family-killing tale, Red Dragon. Collins' novel is more muted, more circumscribed and more tight.The principal mystery here is, how does Collins maintain his incredible output and still sustain such a high level of quality? He is one of the most reliable writers in America; What Doesn't Kill Her is a worthy addition to his very considerable body of work. It is a fast read. I would like to see Jordan return in another case (and bring her switchblade).
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