Nightwatcher [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Nightwatcher" by Wendy Corsi Staub.

From the Back Cover

As the city sleeps in the early hours of September 10, 2001, the killer waits and watches, unaware of the cataclysm to come. Even the nightmare of 9/11 will not postpone his private reign of terror.

Allison Taylor adores her adopted city, New York, loving every minute of the invigorating urban hustle. But on a bright and clear September morning, the familiar landscape around her is savagely altered — and in the midst of widespread chaos and fear, a woman living upstairs from her is found, brutally slaughtered and mutilated.

For Allison for her neighbor, James "Mack" MacKenna, desperately searching for news of his missing wife   for homicide detective Rocky Manzillo, hunting for a monster called "The Nightwatcher" amid the smoking ruins of a devastated city, this tragic day will hold a special horror. Because a different kind of terror has entered their lives and it's coming to claim Allison Taylor as its next victim.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Harper; Original edition (August 28, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062070282
ISBN-13: 978-0062070289

My Review:

Allison Tayler has recently moved to New York and she is enjoying living there.  Then her friend living upstairs from her is brutally murdered and mutilated.

Allison's neighbor James "Mack" MacKenna is frantically looking for news of his missing wife and homicide detective Rocky Manzillo is hunting for a monster dubbed "The NightWatcher" among the devastating 9/11 events.

I hate to admit it took me a few days to finish this book because it didn't really catch my interest.  I did enjoy the storyline and I felt bad for Allison because she's innocent and bad things keep happening to her and around her.  A few characters were shallow and self absorbed that didn't really cared about them but I wouldn't wish what happened to them.

3/5

Hell to Pay [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Hell to Pay" the 3rd book in her Cavalon and Walsh trilogy by Wendy Corsi Staub.

Product Description

And so it begins . . . again.

Survivors of a serial killer who invaded their childhood, Lucy Walsh and Jeremy Cavalon are married now, replacing nightmares of their terrifying past with joyful dreams of the upcoming birth of their first child. Fiercely determined to protect the fragile balance of their lives, Lucy doesn’t know that her new husband guards a deadly secret . . . or that an Act of God is about to unleash a vengeful fury.

For shell-shocked Lucy and Jeremy, the horrible death of a loved one is a tragic accident. But for a shadowy predator, it’s the first step toward completing a deadly mission that was interrupted so long ago. Now, at last, the members of the Walsh and Cavalon families will pay for their sins, one by one . . . 

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Avon (September 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061895083
ISBN-13: 978-0061895081

My Review:

Lucy and Jeremy barely survived an attack by a serial killer during their childhood.  Now they are married and are expecting a child.  Years ago the Cavalon family won a case against the killer and they lost all their assets.  Now they are determined to make both of them pay including their family by killing them off one by one.  First they kill Jeremy's adopted grandma Silvie Durand but makes it look like an accident.  They move into her apartment unaware that someone is watching their every move.

This last book in the series is very fast paced right from the start of the book to the end and never lets up.  The killer is very psychotic and believes that God is on their side and wants them to avenge what was wrongly done to them.

Though the ending was kind of quick and we don't find out the fate of some people who were seriously hurt.

4/5