End of Watch
2000
- private investigators
- murder
- investigation
- suicide
- psychopaths
- fiction
- crime, fiction
- fiction, horror
- fiction, suspense
- private investigators, fiction
The story
A suspenseful closing volume. Brady Hartsfield, the Mercedes killer, returns to diabolically drive his victims to suicide in this last installment, starring the ever more winning Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney.
What it’s like
Plain, brisk prose with a wry Midwestern edge, moving between close-third viewpoints in short chapters that stack up the tension. The atmosphere is ordinary and grounded: sodium-lit streets, hospital corridors that hum with machines, the quiet dread of a familiar car idling in a parking lot. Dread builds in the gaps between scenes rather than through spectacle. Violence is sudden and sometimes graphic, and suicide is a central, unflinching subject, so this is not gentle reading. Expect bleak moments and a pressure that rarely lets up, balanced by a steady, sardonic warmth between the investigators, who are older and resilient rather than glamorous. The rhythm suits a late-night reader who wants to keep turning pages, or a long train ride where the tension can build in one sitting. It is for readers who like crime fiction with a supernatural undercurrent, character loyalty, and a closing act that pays off what came before, and who can handle dark material without needing it softened.
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