Product Description

He Woos. He Stalks. He Kills. He's their secret admirer, wooing them with phone calls, love letters and special gifts. From a distance, he admires them. Desires them. Despises them. And when he gets close enough, he kills them all! Adams County, Alabama is the kind of town where everyone knows each other's business, the kind of place where doors stay unlocked. Until a psychopath comes calling. Dubbed 'The Secret Admirer', he woos his victims with phone calls, love letters and gifts, before stalking, kidnapping and then brutally murdering them. A terrifying game is underway. Sheriff Bernie Granger -- in her first big case -- is desperate to stop a twisted serial killer before another woman is slaughtered. But is she getting closer to catching him -- or being drawn even deeper into his deadly web? The nerve-jangling new thriller from the New York Times bestseller.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28658 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Review
"CLOSE ENOUGH TO KILL is not for the faint of heart! Shocking and terrifying, it will chill you to the bone." Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of THE MEPHISTO CLUB All bookshop, independent and library sales to Gardners Books www.gardners.com http://pubeasy.books.gardners.com Customer Care Tel: +44 (0)1323 521777 Customer Care Fax: +44 (0)1323 521666 Gardcall: 01323 521444 www.avon-books.co.uk avon@harpercollins.co.uk

About the Author
An avid reader since childhood, Beverly Barton wrote her first book at the age of nine. Since then, she has gone on to write well over sixty novels and is a New York Times bestselling author. Beverly lives in Alabama in the U.S.

Customer Reviews

close enough to kill
I have never hard of Beverly Barton before, i come across her book in the book shop and i started to read the first pape and i was hocked so i bought it, and i've not been able to put it down. I liked the fact that there was a bit of a love story in there but the best was all the red herrings and think that you know who the kiler was and then it changed all over again and you was back to square one which i love that about the book because it kept you guessing. I will most diffenly buy another of her books the only think that i find most hard is that i never no which one is the first book and which is the second
This is a must buy .

Couldn't put it down
This is the first Beverly Barton book I have read-I had never heard of her but someone I knew was reading it and I thought it sounded good so I gave it a go. I looked on Beverly Barton's website and saw that she writes books under the 'Silhouette' label-I thought 'oh no' because I thought these were similar to Mills and Boon. Luckily this didn't put me off because I was very pleasantly surprised by the quality of her writing and I will definitely read another of her books. I have read all Richard Montanari's books and I would put it on a par with those-it's that good. The few days I was reading this book it kept me thinking who the suspects could be and it seemed obvious at one moment it was a certain person-next minute it couldn't be him then another red herring put me on yet another track, it really did keep me guessing. There is also a bit of a love story in the book and this provides a good balance to the gory scenes. I think this book was an excellent read and I enjoyed it immensely.

Great book !! A must for the Beverly Barton fan.
I have read a lot of Beverly Barton book over the years and I have enjoy all of them. But this book is very good and written very well but, a little slow for my taste.

The book is about a twisted serial killer called The Secret Admirer Killer who kidnapped young women and rapes and does things to them over a period of 11 to 14 days, then kills them and leaves there body posed on a dirt road. Jim Norton and local sheriff Bernie Granger tries to catch this sick killer.