Review: The Violet Hour - Richard Montanari

 

 

Review: The Violet Hour - Richard Montanari - September 1999

Before his Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne series  , came a few single novels and one of them was The Violet Hour. This one reminded me of those horror movies like Urban Legends : Bloody Mary or I Know What you did Last Summer. The type of movies that a tragedy happens and someone will die and the remaining of those involved in the incident will try and cover it up, forget it never happened. Though years later, there is still someone who remembers it like yesterday - someone who had an attachment to the victim but was on the outside so the group never really paid attention to them. Then one day the person with the attachments snaps and decides to exact revenge on those involved with the incident those many years ago and of course they die. Not before of course receiving a warning from the killer that they are next - the warning tends to be something that the killer will know that the victims will connect to the incident or the person who died years ago and wham bam - you know the rest. That my friends and readers, is the synopsis of The Violet Hour. An incident happened twenty years ago,  a female victim occurred. Now the people involved in her death are being hunted and the clue is a poem that they are all being sent by T.S Elliot. 

The Violet Hour was a predictable read, but if you are wanting something to read to pass the time like I did as I read this on the aeroplane and you enjoy your mysteries and like myself read all of Richard Montanari's work and enjoyed the majority of it - then The Violet Hour is for you.