Good Morning, Killer, April Smith
Good Morning, Killer, April Smith
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Good Morning, Killer
An Ana Grey Mystery

Author: April Smith

Narrator: Christine Baranski

Abridged: 5 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/22/2003


Synopsis

An electrifying new thriller that brings back the complex, strong-willed, often-maverick FBI agent—Ana Grey—whom we first met in the author’s stunning debut novel, North of Montana.

This time Special Agent Grey is working on a kidnapping case—a fifteen-year-old named Juliana has been abducted in Santa Monica. Grey’s counterpart in the Santa Monica Police Department is Detective Andrew Berringer. They’ve worked together before—and they’ve been more than just working together ever since.

It’s Ana’s job “to know the victim as if she were my own flesh and blood.” But when Juliana turns up—traumatized into a state of total and paralyzing terror—it becomes clear that Ana has gone too far: she is viewing her own life from the perspective of Juliana’s blasted emotional terrain. And in a moment of passion (Andrew has betrayed her) and panic (is it possible that he also means to harm her?) Ana points a gun at him and shoots.

Now she is both criminal investigator and criminal as she breaks her bail agreement to continue tracking the abductor, torn between her powerful emotional connection with Juliana and the fraying connection she has to her own common sense and to the truths she knows about Andrew—and about herself.

Psychologically acute and unstoppably suspenseful—Good Morning, Killer is a searing, addictive read.

About The Author

April Smith is the author of North of Montana and Be the One. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Terry on January 24, 2022

Another series where I started with the second book somehow. I noticed in the author's acknowledgements she thanks a Sheriff's Lt. I know--maybe he recommended it. It took a little while to get used to Smith's writing style and voice, but the plot was interesting, and took a diversion into the prota......more

Goodreads review by Staci on January 17, 2014

I read outside my normal genre for the Ana Grey books on the recommendation of a friend. After one, I was hooked. This is the note I sent him while on the second book: I was reading while waiting for the bus this morning. When it pulled up, I got on without looking up. Still on the bus 45 minutes la......more

Goodreads review by Mark on January 12, 2022

The 2nd in a series of the Ana Grey mysteries...a gritty thriller with a tough, no-nonsense female FBI agent as the protagonist...pretty dark & hard edged with little or no humor, even the black humor of law enforcement...I'll give the series one more shot as I plan to read the 1st......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on February 21, 2017

Debated between a 3-4 stars for this book, We are going to see this author at Festival of Books in Tucson so wanted to read her. It was a fast paced interesting read. For a moment wondered if the conflict between two lovers who are also law enforcement would really escalate as it did in book but kno......more

Goodreads review by Chris on April 08, 2018

I highly recommend the Ana Grey series. Go in with the right expectations: this is a character drama disguised as a procedural, and Ana Grey is one of the most compelling and realistic characters in any book I've read.......more


Quotes

"A rocket-propelled narrative. . . . You won't be able to stop rooting for [Ana]--or stop reading." --People

"One heck of a crime story, with tightly woven, suspenseful plots." --USA Today

"April Smith writes in the forceful style of a true literary maverick." --The New York Times

"A galloping good read." --The Oregonian

“Evocative and brilliantly crafted. . . . Keeps up the tense drumbeat of the chase.” —The Houston Chronicle
 
“Smith has created a vibrant, intriguing cast of characters and has a superb eye for detail. . . . Her true forte is storytelling.” —Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
 
“Spellbinding, full of passion and rage and all the elements that make fiction great. . . . This novel is not to be missed.” —The Globe and Mail (Canada)
 
“This stunner of a book twists and turns. . . . The devil is in the details: All the clues are in place, but the ending still packs a punch.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
 
“[Smith’s plots] are so fast, harrowing, and breathtaking that they are like skiing down the expert slope while juggling vials of nitroglycerine.” —New York Sun
 
“April Smith is a writer with a laser eye that can record with cold precision the details of the daily life of her crime-solving subjects.” —Chicago Tribune