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Reviewed by Lex Allen for Readers' Favorite
A New England community is terrorized by a serial killer, The Huntsman, whose calling card is the female victim’s heart cut from her body and placed next to it with an apple. The primary suspect suffers a fall and lies in a coma, effectively halting the investigation. ICU nurse Max Mason reads nightly to the patient, but his motives are far from innocent or positive reinforcements. When the suspect, Lincoln Raider, awakes, all he’d absorbed from Max’s nightly stories creates the basis for a surprising and murderous turn of events that follow twists and turns guaranteed to keep you on your toes and guessing.
As an avid reader and author, I generally avoid writing or reading novels written in a first-person narrative. However, I read an exemplary presentation of this writing style in The Huntsman by Judith Sanders. The key difference in The Huntsman’s first-person narrative is the presentation from one primary character and several characters’ points of view, separated by chapters. This story reeks of verisimilitude based upon Sanders’s professional medical education and a sure-fire sense of what creates suspense without the blood and guts of most serial killer mysteries. Sanders is an expert in misdirection that leads us to believe we've got it all figured out before throwing in a twist, proving us wrong. It is a psychological serial killer thriller I expect to see on several best-seller lists soon.
