The Love Killings

Detective Matt Jones, Book 2

De: Robert Ellis

Narrado por: Nick Podehl

For the past six weeks, LAPD detective Matt Jones has been recovering from the wrong end of a hit man's bullet. Before he can look for payback, Jones finds himself enlisted in the manhunt for an old foe. Dr. George Baylor, the serial killer who escaped after murdering three coeds in LA, resurfaces on the East Coast. This time, an entire family has been slaughtered in their home outside Philadelphia, and the doctor's fingerprints are all over the crime scene.

With panic rising, the FBI seeks Jones's help, and the hunt for this brutal mass killer is on. But so is the hunt for the man who paid to have Jones shot. When a second family is found murdered, the search for the killer becomes frantic, and Jones's shocking personal history explodes before his eyes. With his two missions welded together as one, Jones enters the madman's world - a place of unimaginable terror - and hopes that if he survives, he can find his way out.

©2016 Robert Ellis (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

OHHHH MYYYY!

Good book but the performane was distracting. Couldn't help but imagine a certain Star Trek character

Solidly just OK

Any additional comments?

I will start by saying that this book has a lot of background occurring in a previous book, so you may want to start there. The previous action does not make this book impossible to follow on its own, but neither is this book a "stand alone" story.
From that, I will just say that this is NOT a story that anyone requiring true to life action and choices for characters should read. It is a not a plausible scenario and one must first believe that all cops are basically lazy creatures incapable of independent thought. Also, one must believe that supervisors and prosecutors demand all "team members" to lock in on the one and only AUTHORIZED suspect and crime solution. We also must believe that a crazy loser 21-year-old mama's boy can do things like subdue multiple family members at one time, or kill 4 cops and 2 armed body guards to get at a target. In fact, the lazy cops get killed in their car, despite being warned that the crazy guy is coming to the location they are guarding.
Clearly written by an artist and not someone with much insider knowledge of police, lawyers, or federal law enforcement, much of the action and drama is laughably inaccurate based on what outsiders may perceive. As an example, the author has the killer using a .45 Glock that is fitted with an oil filter as a "silencer". In this story, silencer apparently means SILENT. In real life, properly manufactured SUPPRESSORS reduce the report and muzzle flash, but are ANYTHING BUT silent.
So after all that... it is a story that I didn't feel I wanted to tag out on, and I found it to be an ok listen that at some points did get me wanting to hear what happened next. Just don't read or listen to it expecting to find a serious thriller with life size characters and plausible action.

Michelle

This book was amazing! I couldn't put it down! One to definitely read! No doubt!

Horribly macabre. Unnecessary gory details.

Liked some twists in the story but not the unnecessary redundant gory details. I like thrillers. This one not so much.

I love the series but ....

I love the series but it’s real hard for me to believe a serial killer is a big pot head
Pot heads like to eat cookies not kill people

Awesome story by an awesome narrator..

** spoiler alert ** Spoilers, maybe..

Well, as of 25% I really didn’t think I’d like Matt in this book. His thoughts of murder and how to get away with it just don’t do it for me. But it turned out OK. But, man, every time you turned around he was in trouble. AND, I know, I know, Dr. Baylor was a serial killer but when he was with Matt I really liked him. Whereas, Rogers and Doyle were real jerks and Kate turned out to be even worse. What a piece of work she was. And the info that came out about Matt was just incredible.

And, OMG, what this new serial killer had his victims doing was soooo horrible. And what Andrew and his mother were doing was totally disgusting. And when Andrew hooked up with Avery Cooper…EWW. She was some kind of sick!

This book had an amazing storyline and ending, although it was left open for another book. I just hope we can have a story without Matt smoking or chewing nicotine gum.

There was no sex that was described but there was some really gross sex hinted at.

The F-bomb was used 28 times.

This was a really good murder/suspense, I enjoyed every word of it AND this time the author gave you a few more descriptions of what people looked like.

As to the narrator: Nick Podehl was just as amazing in this book as he was reading City of Echoes. He laughed, yelled, whispered, everything he was supposed to do. I love his narration.

Another fast paced book

Wow! Ellis knows how to write an on the edge of your seat book! I'm hoping for a third installment. Matt Jones has had a lot to deal with lately but it can't be over yet...

Truly dysfunctional family; dark suspense thriller

In The Love Killings rookie LAPD detective Matt Jones goes to the east coast to help the FBI apprehend serial killer and cosmetic surgeon Dr. George Baylor. This book picks up where the first book in the series, City of Echoes, ends The Love Killings as better than City of Echoes, but it is even darker. Its ending while totally satisfactory for a stand alone novel sets up the next novel in the series well. In this novel Matt Jones finds out much about his very early years and his family. The picture is a rather depressing one for him; his family is well outside the normal range.

Narrator Nick Podehl delivers what is for him a disappointing performance. While better than adequate he is usually better.

Could not stop listening.....

Matt Jones never quits thinking or moving forward to uncover the truth. He is .... Amazing

I'm ready for audios for book 3 & 4

Not sure I understand the reason for the title. 🤔

Nick does a pretty good job in Book 1 and 2 with voice creation. I enjoy listening to the voice over talent. Voices are distinct enough to tell them apart.

Both book 1 and 2 do a good job of grabbing your attention and keeping it. I think Robert does a good job of preventing the storyline from becoming trite. I do think I prefer book 1 better because of the multiple story lines.

Spoiler Alert
Book 1 having brilliant surgeon as the murderer makes sense. He has access to his own place to do what he does to the bodies. He has access to drugs needed to paralyze people even if just temporarily. In book 2, it just didnt make sense to me that one 20 something kid good be doing it all and even more than what the brilliant doctor could do.

I also couldn't take Matt making yet another poor choice in a woman. He literally JUST did that in the first book.

I preferred book one's slower pace. I really felt like everything got wrapped up a bit too quickly with the second, mass murder. Just when it got good, it was over. I really felt like BOTH murderers could have been continued into book 3 and 4.