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Title details for Hello, Darkness by Sandra Brown - Available

Hello, Darkness

A Novel

by Sandra Brown
Victor Slezak
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seeing Red comes Hello, Darkness, a brilliant, fast-paced tale about a woman haunted by her past and caught in a nightmare that threatens to destroy her future.
For Paris Gibson, her popular late-night radio show is both an escape and her one real contact with the outside world. To her loyal listeners, she is a wise and trusted friend who not only takes their requests but listens to their problems and occasionally dispenses advice.

Paris's world of isolation is shattered when one listener—a man who identifies himself only as "Valentino"—tells her that the girl he loves jilted him because of Paris's on-air advice. Now he intends to exact his revenge: first he plans to kill the girl—then he will come after Paris.

Joined by the Austin police department, Paris plunges into a race against time in an effort to find Valentino before he can carry out his threat. To her dismay, she finds that she must now work with crime psychologist Dean Malloy, a man with whom she shares a history. His presence arouses old passions, forcing Paris to confront painful memories that she had come to Austin to forget.

As the clock ticks down and Valentino's threats come closer to becoming reality, Paris finds herself forced to deal with a killer who may not be a stranger at all.

Tense and compelling right up to the chilling climax, Hello, Darkness is suspense at its very best, by the author USA TODAY dubbed "a masterful storyteller, carefully crafting tales that keep readers on the edge of their seats."

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  • Release date

    August 14, 2012

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781442357471
      • File size: 387774 KB
      • Duration: 13:27:51

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Victor Slezak's sensuous voice is just right for Brown's tale of a second chance at love for Paris Gibson, who hosts a late night radio show devoted to love songs and call-ins from the lovelorn. A threatening call from a man calling himself "Valentino," who claims to have a hostage he will kill in 72 hours, leads Paris to contact her former lover, Dean Malloy, now an Austin Police psychologist. (Malloy is also her late fiancé's best friend.) With his calm reading, Slezak sensationalizes neither the sex club that Malloy's son and the hostage take part in nor the character of the sex-addicted dentist, who may be a suspect. D.T.H. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 7, 2003
      Cue another run up the charts for bestselling Brown (The Crush), who knows just the right mix to spin: a second-chance-at-love theme rocked by the rhythms of families-in-jeopardy and the hip-hop beat of an at-risk teen subplot sure to alarm the most jaded of parents. Her latest thriller, set during a steamy Austin, Tex., summer, revolves around Paris Gibson, host of a late night radio show that dispenses classic love songs along with advice for the lovelorn that turns deadly after a caller takes Paris's on-air advice to dump a possessive boyfriend who turns out to be another regular caller, "Valentino." Refusing to be dumped, "Valentino" makes the girl his captive, phones Paris that he will kill her in 72 hours ("...her death will be on your conscience") and implies Paris may die next. Paris contacts the Austin police and reunites with one-time lover, Dean Malloy, a police psychologist who was also her dead fiancé's best friend. "Valentino" 's victim, Janey Kemp, is the missing 17-year-old daughter of a prominent judge and a founder of a Sex Club Web site that arranges illicit parties that Dean's son, Gavin, also frequents, connecting him to Janey's disappearance. Paris and Dean's romance is almost trivial beside Janey's dehumanizing captivity, although Brown's shallow characterizations of Janey and other Sex Club teens registers the only off note in this fast-reading thriller. The adult suspects are better developed: Lancy, an ex-con/janitor/former porn star trying to make good; Stan, a radio employee whose family connections are the only reason he has a job; John, a cop who sees nothing wrong with "hands on" undercover work; and Brad, a sex-addicted dentist. The unmasking of the killer comes with a riveting finale that will leave fans begging for an encore.
      Agent, Maria Carvainis. Major ad/promo; 5-city author tour.

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