Product Description

Katyln quickly realized that she'd left her office door unlocked, a careless habit that could have just become a terrible mistake.

Bolting from her desk, she lunged for the door and twisted the insubstantial metal lock until it clicked. The mechanism jiggled when she tried it and gave little assurance it would hold if someone tried to force it. The glass door put her on display, like a parakeet in a cage with a nasty cat on the prowl. No place to run, no place to hide.

If Starman had come for her, there would be no one to hear her scream.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5656790 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 351 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Mixing and matching devices from other thrillers, this debut about a pair of star-stalking killers never quite gets off the ground. News anchor and former English professor Katlyn Rome is already facing professional and personal tensions (especially the resentment of her husband, a music producer, over her new career) when she delivers an impromptu editorial on the six-o'clock news questioning the LAPD's handling of a series of rapes and murders committed by a celebrity-obsessed killer nicknamed Starman, whose targets range from porn stars to rock musicians. While Katlyn's boss is critical of her unprofessional rashness, he decides to capitalize on the publicity by having Katlyn cover the Starman story. Needless to say, Katlyn soon attracts the notice of Starman and his mysterious partner, Bo, who stalk her cat-and-mouse fashion, stealing photograph albums from her home, leaving threatening messages and even breaking into a hospital lab to destroy her fertilized egg. Although Friedman has a gift for capturing L.A.'s obsession with publicity, the assorted pathologies he assigns to his pair of killers are old hat, and we never believe in Katlyn's peril enough to care about her story.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
The Starman, a serial killer who preys on celebrity females, is loose in L.A. When newscaster Katlyn Rome exhorts the police to crank up their investigation a few notches, Starman isn't pleased, and neither is the voice in his head, called Bo, who rationalizes the killings and plots the next one. Soon Katlyn is the bull's-eye on Starman's target. Her home is invaded, then torched, and her husband, Matt, is kidnapped. Starman is captured and commits suicide but won't reveal Matt's fate. When the terror continues, the question becomes, Is Starman so evil he can operate from beyond the grave? In a sense he can, in the person of Bo, who may be more than just a voice. The hardcover debut from author Friedman is in many ways standard psycho-killer fare, but a unique plot twist and a Twilight Zone conclusion raise it well above ordinary and mark the author as a promising newcomer in the thriller genre. Wes Lukowsky

From Kirkus Reviews
Los Angeles newswoman rises above a mercenary station manager and the incompetence of the LAPD to nab a sadistic killer with a taste for beautiful female celebrities. Arthur Combs, at the urging of ``Bo,'' whose disembodied voice somehow whispers instructions, gets naked, rubs down with undiluted civet, stalks pretty women and sexually savages them. When Katlyn Rome makes an on-the-air speech about the case, she angers Chief of Detectives Stryker and, of course, Arthur and the mysterious Bo. It's no surprise, then, that she becomes their next target, which tickles her venal boss, upsets her struggling musician husband Matthew, and diverts the spotlight from the ambitious Stryker. Detective Dan Jarrett--department bad-boy--gets the assignment when Kate, after a staged broadcast aimed at drawing out the killer, has to go into hiding. Matthew goes missing, their in vitro embryo gets stolen from the hospital lab, and Arthur sets fire to the woods around Kate's not-so-safe safe house--forcing her out and into his clutches. But Jarrett catches Arthur just as he's about to do awful things to Kate, after which Jarrett and Kate start making eyes at each other (a sure sign that poor Matthew is done for). After a woman is arrested for the hospital lab break-in and the vile Arthur commits suicide, Stryker calls the case solved. Kate and Jarrett disagree, as does Matthew, who's now being held captive by Bo--in the cottage right next door. When Kate realizes where Matthew is, she eludes her two police guards, grabs her pistol, and rushes to the rescue. Jarrett follows bravely, sans backup (``the situation was too delicate for. . . even the well-trained SWAT teams''). Advertising executive Friedman (a paperback, The Crib, 1979) lacks any trace of flair for the melodramatic. The result is a novel peopled with stock characters and rife with plot devices that are often both unbelievable and illogical at once. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Customer Reviews

The Action Keeps Coming
A Hunting We Will Go by Hal Friedman reminds me of a great action advenure movie. The chapters are like scenes,short and without extra words. The plot is weird in a good way. A serial killer controlled by a woman so that she can get revenge on people who she believes have harmed her. Friedman writes in short chapters so you can stop and go whenever you get a few minutes. These also help the pacing of the book. The ending is totally unexpected and makes you wonder what kind of imagination it takes to dream up these things. Definately read it.

Simply Awesome!
I love to read, and am very picky when it comes to choosing a good book. If I lose interest after the first few chapters it's all over for me. I read this book in 3 days! All 350 pages! I was on the edge of my seat with every turn of the page. Anyone who thinks this book was bad needs to check there pulse to make sure they are not dead!

Didn't like it
I managed to finish this book somehow. I thought it might get better, but it didn't. Not a well-developed plot or characters. I found this story and the characters boring.