No One Will Hear You

March 15, 2011
Crime Seen is hosted by former sheriff J. C. Harrow and features an all-star team of forensic experts who solve crimes on the air and take viewers along for the arrests. Its a reality-TV sensation. Then a video of a grisly sexual crime is received by Harrow and his team. The sender, eventually dubbed Don Juan, vows to kill two additional women per week unless the video is aired unedited on next weeks show. Shortly thereafter another serial killer comes on the scene targeting male victims. This killer also wants exposure on the show. Harrow, in concert with official law enforcement and the network, works desperately to catch the killers without giving in to their terrifying fame-or-death blackmail scheme. Soon it becomes apparent that one of Harrows team is the ultimate target. Collinsauthor of The Road to Perdition (1998), among dozens of other titlesand coauthor Clemens take a seemingly preposterous premise and transform it into an intense, white-knuckle thriller.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)