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A serial killer is out there ready to have his fun and the state of Georgia is his playground. He has a major grudge against several people and all he wants is vengeance. After all, he deserves it. He has to make them pay after what has happened to him. In this rather formulaic novel, a troubled cop is taunted by a madman who kidnaps people related to the police officer and drugs them. He then strips them naked and places them inside a used coffin with a microphone. Once the victim wakes and realizes where they are, the psycho tapes their pleas and screams for posterity and sends poems to Detective Pierce Reed giving clues to his motivations. Reed will have to go to the person he hates the most in order to get help. He has been removed from the case due to personal connections to one of the victims and the only person who can help him is a reporter. He will reluctantly agree to work with her, trying to get information on the killer and not knowing the danger he will be putting her in. Nikki Gillette, a reporter for the local paper, wants this story so bad she can taste it. She has been following Pierce's career for a while and she knows there is a connection with Reed and the first victim. If she can find out what it is and get an exclusive she can get out of town and work for a big-time paper. She is responsible for naming the killer 'The Grave Robber' and he is listening. In appreciation, the killer will include Nikki in the game he is playing with Reed sending her poems, stalking and bugging her apartment, and making her life a living hell. The novel is predictable with almost every element you would expect from a stalker/serial killer novel. The killer's identity was indeed a surprise but not his motivations for his killings. THE MORNING AFTER is a quick read. I just wished that it provided something new with the glut of stalking serial killers threatening so-called helpless women. There are too many look-alike books out there. This book will be easily forgettable by the time you read your next book.
Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, September 2004
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