Chill of Fear: A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel (Fear Series)

by Kay Hooper

Other authorsDick Hill (Reader)

2014

Status

Available

Publication

Brilliance Audio (2014), Edition: Unabridged

Description

Bestselling author Kay Hooper turns up the heat even as she chills readers to the bone with a suspense novel that distills the essence of fear itself. In this relentless thriller, two psychics put more than their lives on the line to stop a killer darker and more evil than they could ever imagine. . . .FBI agent Quentin Hayes always knew he had an unusual talent, even before he was recruited by Noah Bishop for the controversial Special Crimes Unit. But, as gifted as he is, for twenty years he's been haunted by a heartbreaking unsolved murder that took place at The Lodge, a secluded Victorian-era resort in Tennessee. Now he's returned one final time, determined to put the mystery to rest.Diana Brisco has come there hoping to unlock the mystery of her troubled past. Instead, she is assailed by nightmares and the vision of a child who vanished from The Lodge years ago. And an FBI agent is trying to convince her that she isn't crazy but that she has a rare gift, a gift that could catch a killer.Quentin knows that this is his last chance to solve a case that has become a dangerous obsession. But can he persuade Diana to help him, knowing what it could cost her? For something cold and dark and pure evil is stalking the grounds of The Lodge. Something Diana may not survive. Something Quentin never felt before: the chill of fear.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member wyvernfriend

This was interesting in many ways. The main character, Diana Brisco, was heavily medicated for years because she "saw things" but what if what she saw were real? This deals well with this issue.
Diana goes to the Lodge to do some Art Therapy to try to deal with some of her issues and to try to

escape heavy medication to make her "sane". At the Lodge she finds Quentin Hayes who is haunted by the death that's happened at the lodge and keeps coming back to see if he can solve the mystery.
There's enough paranormal action to keep me happy without being too strange. Then again I like paranormal action in books so my baseline is sometimes not other people's good read. For me this was a satisfying mystery and the twist right at the end took me completely by surprise.

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LibraryThing member bethmal

I love all of hte books in this series. Every one of them are page turners and I can never wait till the newest one is out!

LibraryThing member LibraryOMidas

My fist Kay Hooper novel. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and read it all in one sitting.

Diana Brisco has been heavily drugged her whole life to fix her "mental problems", when in fact she was never ill but psychic. Now she has to come to terms with the fact that she really isn't crazy and her

ability can help FBI detective, Quentin Hayes, solve a 25 year old murder that has controlled his life. Is she strong enough to be the link that Quentin needs to put an end to his nightmares or is her past too hard to overcome?

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LibraryThing member SandyLee

Quentin Hayes and Noah Bishop are part of the FBI’s Special Crimes Unit. Members use there special “talents” to investigate the paranormal. Hayes keeps returning to an aging resort in Tennessee where a child died twenty-five years ago when he and his family were vacationing. Diana Brisco has

been haunted by strange nightmares and visions most of her life so her doctor suggests she spend some time at this retreat drawing as a way to relax. Immediately things start happening. She draws a picture of Quentin whom she has never met. She sees people in period clothes. With everything that happens to her she tries to dismiss them. After all, people had told her she had mental problems like her mother which is why she had been medicated most of her life. Now drug free, she is still having nightmares and out of body experiences. Hayes helps her to face the fact that she isn’t crazy. She is a medium. She has a talent that the Special Crimes Unit can use. The ghost of a child leads her to his bones. This helps her to finally realize that maybe her father was wrong. Maybe she does have a talent. This is a creepy tale that moves along at a fast clip. The only thing missing was Diana’s father. She had called to tell him she knew nothing was wrong with her mentally, that she had found a photo with her and one of the ghosts which she now realizes was her sister. Her father tells her to stay put. He is headed to Tennessee to talk to her but there the author ends it. This loose end is never fully explained so the reader is not sure why the father kept the sister a secret, and if he had any involvement in anything that had transpired.

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LibraryThing member Darcia

I've been a fan of Kay Hooper's writing since I picked up her first book many years ago. Chill of Fear has a little less action than some of her others but, for me, it was just as good. The story centers around Diana, a woman coming to terms with her ability as a medium. There's mystery, an

emerging romance and, of course, the paranormal world of ghosts and extrasensory abilities.

This is part of the ongoing Bishop/Special Crimes Unit series, though it is also broken down into the separate 'Fear' series using specific characters. Chill of Fear could be read as a stand-alone, though I would suggest reading Hunting Fear, the first in this particular subseries.

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LibraryThing member Barbara31542

Bishop series. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I don't usually read the ESP type books, but I can hardly wait to read the next one.

LibraryThing member Carol420

Twenty-five years ago in Leisure, Tennessee at The Lodge where a young girl is hiding in a closet and hears something evil coming but can't tell if it is inside her or outside the door. From the light coming in under the door, she sees two feet and basically that is all we know from that past.

Advance 20 years, FBI agent Quentin Hayes in on vacation and in the police station conference room in Leisure. He is working as he has for the past ten years to try and solve a very cold case of 20 years ago when he was 12 that a young girl (Missy) was found murdered. Noah Bishop has just formed his Special Crimes Unit nicknames the Spooky Crimes Unit and has come to try to persuade Quentin to join. Quentin is a "seer." This story, and Ms. Hooper's writing only gets better and better with each turn of the page. As I moved from one chapter to another, I found myself clutching this intense story with a kind of fervor I hadn't felt in a long time. I simply couldn't wait for the next secret to be revealed, and then the next. Soon, the story becomes real. Now that's an excellent ghost story!

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LibraryThing member Lauren2013

Chill of Fear
3.5 Stars

I had put this series on the back burner for a while, but dusted it off for a challenge.

This installment focuses on an exclusive resort known only as The Lodge, which has a long history of unexplained disappearances and strange deaths. For several years, SCU agent Quentin

Hayes has been investigating the unsolved murder of Missy Turner, who died at the hotel when they were children. Now, he joins forces with Diana Brisco, a medium with the rare ability to walk with the dead. Can the two stop the malevolent force stalking The Lodge before it strikes again?

To begin with, unlike some of the earlier SCU books, Chill of Fear is a paranormal mystery with some very minor (virtually non-existent) romance elements. Readers looking for romantic suspense will be disappointed.

The mystery itself is very good with strong overtones of Stephen King's It and Dean Koontz's Phantoms, but without the gruesome descriptions. It is relatively easy to figure out the culprit although the investigative process is engaging.

Despite some overly descriptive sections, the narrative flows and the characters are very appealing.

In sum, Chill of Fear is a solid addition to Hooper's series and I'm glad that I've returned to it.

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