Killer Instinct

Instinct Series: Dr. Jessica Coran, Book 1

By: Robert W. Walker

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

DR. JESSICA CORAN

A brilliant and determined FBI medical examiner, she was an expert student of the criminal mind who thought she could face anything.

That was before Wisconsin. Before she saw one of his victims...

THE VAMPIRE KILLER

The FBI agent had a special code name for his unusual method of torture: Tort 9, the draining of the victim's blood. The newspapers called him the Vampire-Killer. But his own twisted love letters were signed "Teach"... and were addressed to the one woman he wanted most of all: His hunter, his prey, Dr. Jessica Coran.

©2009 Robert W. Walker (P)2013 Robert W. Walker

Horrible narration!

The instinct series was in my book collection since the first book was published. The narrator was far by the worst I have heard mispronouncing many words and names.

If you like gritty crime thrillers, get it.

Would you listen to Killer Instinct again? Why?

I really liked this book. Lately the crime novels I've been reading are more romance than thriller. This one is gritty and the woman doesn't take any s**t.

What did you like best about this story?

It was suspenseful and I enjoyed all the forensic talk. The ending was deeply disturbing and I loved listening to every second of it.

What does Brian Nishii bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

He was fantastic! I liked his voice for Jessica. She sounds as you would expect. Someone very intelligent and just wants to cut through the nonsense.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I pretty much did.

a good start to an exciting series

Any additional comments?

Audio book edition
This is the first in the FBI medical examiner Jessica Coran series.

I was given a review copy of the last in this series (book 11) Absolute Instinct (which I thoroughly enjoyed)
I was thinking that i would like to hear how the whole series started and then was lucky enough to see this one also offered as a listen/review copy, so I grabbed at the chance.

This is a very gory, serious and bone chilling thriller ,very grafic, so not for the faint hearted , but just what you would expect of a M.E. hunting a serial killer plot.
Although I already knew some of the plot- as it was mentioned in book 11(there was only one real spoiler for me)
I still found the story very exciting and intruiging. It has a good pace throughout .

I remember seeing this audiobook advertised before and although I liked the sound of the storyline I was put off by the negative reviews of the narrator . At the start of the book i did find him rather irritating , although I could not really put my finger on what was wrong , he did seem to settle down in his narration and I found he did not completly spoil the story for me.

good book

I really enjoyed this book, I was thrown for a loop a few times. I really like these kinds of investigative mysteries.

Good story-Not so much for the narration

As a medical professional, I found it quite annoying to have the narrator mis-pronounce many of the medical terms.