The Cold Room (Taylor Jackson, #4) (A Taylor Jackson Thriller) (Taylor Jackson Novels (Paperback))

by J T Ellison

He can only truly lover her once her heart stops beating

Homicide detective Taylor Jackson thinks she's seen it all - but she's never seen anything as perverse as The Conductor. After capturing his victim, he contains her in a glass coffin and slowly starves her to death. Only when her last breath is gone does he give in to his attraction.

Soon bodies begin to litter the town, arranged in sinister, well-known poses of great works of art. But when similar murders are reported in Europe, it appears the twisted fantasies of a madman cannot be contained. The coffin is empty... Are you next?

Praise for J.T. Ellison

"A terrific lead character, terrific suspense, terrific twists...a completely convincing debut." - Lee Child

"A taut, striking debut. Mystery fiction has a new name to watch." - John Connolly

The Taylor Jacksons series

1. All The Pretty Girls

2. 14

3. Judas Kiss

4. The Cold Room

5. The Immortals

6. So Close the Hand of Death

7. Where All the Dead Lie

• ISBN10: 0778327140
• ISBN13: 9780778327141
• Publish Date: 23 February 2010
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Imprint: Mira Books
• Edition: Original ed.
• Format: Paperback (US Mass Market)
• Pages: 416
• Language: English

Reviews

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This was a mostly solid mystery. Ellison gives us an unusual crime, committed by an unusual criminal in an unusual way. And, I’m always excited to read a police procedural that isn’t set in New York or southern California. But there were a few pieces that bothered me.

One was Memphis. I didn’t quite get his obsession with Taylor, and would have liked a bit more a clue. Also, I didn’t think the reason he was sent to the U.S. was very good — he spent more time tagging along with Taylor and Baldwin than worrying about his own case. I suspect we’ll be seeing much more of him in the next book. The other piece that didn’t make a lot of sense to me was the tiny subplot with Taylor’s new boss. It ended up being worthless filler, as he appears at the beginning, disappears by the end, and doesn’t have any sort of significant affect on the novel’s events.

I found the book a bit dense, and realized way too late that I should have started this series from the beginning. There were too many references to past events without sufficient information to back them up for me to recommend this to anyone who hasn’t already read the first three books in the series. But, the story did keep me reading, and I would be interested in starting the series from the beginning to see what else Ellison has to offer.