Connie’s review of Blood Dreams (Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel) by Kay Hooper
Romantic suspense hardcover released 31 Dec 07 by Bantam Books
Blood Dreams is the latest Bishop/Special Crimes Unit novel. I have been a long time reader of the series. I like Noah Bishop, as well as the other people in his unit. Their talents shine in every character and each tale brings them together to create a successful team. This review will be short because the summary is practically a full book on its own.
Dani Justice and her sister are in a small town and a murderer finds his way there. Bishop’s team is aware of this and carefully protects them from the enemy.
Dani fights her way to the end and there are sad developments along the way. My main problem was it was too quick and I would have liked to have the story fleshed out a bit more. But it does make for a quick read, and it is always nice to revisit old friends. Kay Hooper is an author to keep up with and still seems to be going strong!
The author’s site has several extra resources to help you understand the series – timelines, etc.
Grade B-
Summary:
This killer dreams in shades of death….
In each of her New York Times bestselling novels, critically acclaimed author Kay Hooper has led readers to unforgettably chilling encounters with fear and evil. Now, in her latest thriller, she takes us on a terrifying manhunt for a serial killer no ordinary cops can stop–a psychopath who seems to step out of a living nightmare.
He’s the kind of killer we instinctively fear the most. A killer without boundaries, without conscience, without any fear of being caught. And his latest victim is terrifying proof that no one is safe: the daughter of a powerful U.S. senator.
Now, with the national media calling for justice and a grief-stricken father seeking vengeance, Bishop and his FBI Special Crimes Unit find themselves in a unique situation. This time even psychic cops aren’t enough to stop evil. Aid comes in the form of a fledgling civilian organization of unorthodox crime stoppers. Operating outside of any government oversight, without sanction or official authority, they are comprised of a membership every bit as talented and eccentric as Bishop’s SCU–if not more so. And that is no coincidence. For Bishop helped launch this organization barely two years before.
Dani Justice knows all about monsters. They haunt her nightmares–and her life. But she never expected to find herself doggedly on the trail of a real flesh-and-blood predator so cunning, he’s eluded the best law enforcement could send up against him; so deadly, he doesn’t hesitate to kill even a senator’s daughter. Or a cop.
Dani doesn’t want to hunt this killer. She doesn’t want to risk the life she’s made for herself, or her hard-won peace. But she doesn’t have a choice. Because his bloody rampage has hit far too close to home. Because Dani alone commands a weapon powerful enough to destroy him.
And because Dani knows something even Bishop doesn’t. Dani knows how the hunt ends. It ends in fire. And blood. And death.
What she doesn’t know is who will survive.
Read an excerpt.
