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“One of the most addictive new series heroines since Stephanie Plum.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta private investigator and ex–FBI profiler Keye Street wants nothing more than time alone with her boyfriend, Aaron—but, as usual, murder gets in the way. A.P.D. Lieutenant Aaron Rauser is called to the disturbing scene of the strangling death of a thirteen-year-old boy. Meanwhile, Keye, a recovering alcoholic, must deal with her emotionally fragile cousin, who has her own history of drug abuse and is now convinced that she is being stalked. But all hell breaks loose when another murder—the apparent hanging of an elderly man—hits disturbingly close to home for Keye. Though the two victims have almost nothing in common, there are bizarre similarities between this case and that of Aaron’s strangled teen. With the threat of more deaths to come, Keye works on pure instinct alone—and soon realizes that a killer is circling ever closer to the people she loves the most.
Praise for Amanda Kyle Williams and Stranger in the Room
“Keye Street remains the most interesting, cynically funny and smart series detective today. . . . The tension buzzes like cicadas on a hot Georgia night and the pace is relentless.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“The best fictional female P.I. since Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone.”—The Plain Dealer
“Keye Street immediately puts herself in the top echelon of suspense heroes. She’s a mess of fascinating contradictions—effortlessly brilliant on a case, totally inept in managing her own life. She is brutally funny and powerfully human—one of the most realistic protagonists in crime fiction that I’ve had the thrill to read.”—Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of Last to Die
“There’s a new voice in Atlanta, and her name is Amanda Kyle Williams—captivating, powerful and compelling.”—Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times bestselling author of One Was a Soldier
“Readers of this fast-paced thriller will be eager for the next Street tale.”—Publishers Weekly
- Sales Rank: #616272 in Books
- Brand: Bantam
- Published on: 2013-11-26
- Released on: 2013-11-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.80" h x 1.06" w x 4.10" l, .37 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 400 pages
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Amazon.com Review
Author One-on-One: Julia Spencer-Fleming and Amanda Kyle Williams
A former military brat, New York Times bestselling author Julia Spencer-Fleming grew up in places as diverse as Montgomery, Rome, Stuttgart and Syracuse. A graduate of Ithaca College, George Washington University and the University of Maine School of Law, she took up writing while still a stay-at-home mother of two. During the time it took to finish her first novel, she got a full-time job at a Portland, Maine, law firm and had a third child. Julia didn’t want to write yet another lawyer-sleuth, so she used her army past and a keen eye for the goings-on at her Episcopal church to create Clare Fergusson, first female priest in the small Adirondack town of Millers Kill. The resulting series has won or been nominated for every American mystery award available, including the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Agatha. Her next book, Through the Evil Days, will be released in May 2013.
AKW: Hard to imagine Keye without her southern roots. The South has a way of shaping you. It gets inside you. She loves the crazy weather and the pine forests. She loves the city and the food. There’s a couple of lines from Stranger In The Room that explains her relationship to her geography. “ You don’t merely exist here. You make a blood-pact with it the moment the soft, moist air fills your nostrils with the sensual scent of confederate jasmine and floods your DNA like reproductive seed.” JSP: In The Stranger You Seek, Keye is introduced as a disgraced former profiler. Do you think she still carries that disgrace, or has she moved on in Stranger in the Room?
AKW: It’s getting better. She can make jokes now about being fired, about being unable to manage drinking. But make no mistake, losing the thing she’d worked toward and wanted her whole life and knowing that she sabotaged her own career, marked her. Keye’s not only a product of the American South, she’s a product of addiction. Shame, disgrace, it’s one of the tricks of addiction. It hammers your self-esteem. So that theme had been playing out for years before we met Keye in The Stranger You Seek. She’s sober now and relearning life, but you learn a way of being, of hiding, of being secretive, of always feeling like less when you’re feeding a drug or alcohol habit. So that’s one of those demons she has to occasionally wrestle down—all the learned behaviors around addiction. But Keye Street is a survivor. She’s not a victim. Keye owns her issues and works on them. And she does it with a sense of humor. Laughter keeps her up. Finding the funny in the little things is Keye’s great talent. And she’s okay with laughing at herself too. JSF: What’s next for Keye?
AKW: Book 3 in the series Don’t Talk To Strangers. I’m working on it now and I’m really excited about where the series is going and where Keye is headed. She’s using her profiling skills to consult with local law enforcement more and more often. It’s how she’s bouncing back and getting to do what she loves—examining the psychological needs and dark fantasies of a violent repeat offender.
From Publishers Weekly
Williams's debut, The Stranger You Seek, introduced detective Keye Street, a brilliant police officer whose drinking ruined her career. Now she is a private detective whose cousin Miki has been targeted by a psychopath. Street must overcome her skepticism (Miki's history of addiction makes her an unreliable witness) and hunt down her cousin's stalker. When she starts investigating, it becomes clear that the stalker is in fact a serial killer who, far from being a figment of Miki's imagination, is very real and very dangerous. Soon he turns his attention to Keye, and that attention may prove fatal to everyone she knows and loves. . Street is flawed and human, and readers will empathize with her struggles just as they rejoice in her successes. Williams paints a skillful portrait of the new South, as seen through the lens of an outsider/insider (Street is adopted and Chinese, and race relations are always an undercurrent) and her supporting characters are colorful and unique. Readers of this fast-paced thriller will be eager for the next Street tale. "Agent: Victoria Sanders, Victoria Sanders & Associates.
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Praise for Amanda Kyle Williams and Stranger in the Room
“Keye Street remains the most interesting, cynically funny and smart series detective today. . . . The tension buzzes like cicadas on a hot Georgia night and the pace is relentless.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“One of the most addictive new series heroines since Stephanie Plum.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“The best fictional female P.I. since Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone.”—The Plain Dealer
“Keye Street immediately puts herself in the top echelon of suspense heroes. She’s a mess of fascinating contradictions—effortlessly brilliant on a case, totally inept in managing her own life. She is brutally funny and powerfully human—one of the most realistic protagonists in crime fiction that I’ve had the thrill to read.”—Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of Last to Die
“There’s a new voice in Atlanta, and her name is Amanda Kyle Williams—captivating, powerful and compelling.”—Julia Spencer-Fleming, New York Times bestselling author of One Was a Soldier
“Readers of this fast-paced thriller will be eager for the next Street tale.”—Publishers Weekly
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Secondary Plotline is Irrelevant
By Nancy
When I read a book, I enjoy the moment when I come to the line that defines the whole plot for me.
"I didn't want to think about Miki, or Miki's safety or the baffling murders of a child and an elderly man. I wanted to sleep it all away - the murders, the stalker who had gotten too close to my parents, the crematory. All of it."
That one moment where everything boils down to the true essence of who and what the book is about. I believe that this line was two-thirds of the way through the book and I could feel Keye's anger and frustration. This was turning into a week from hell and all she wanted to do was get back to the safety of her home, nuzzle her cat - White Trash, and spend a normal night doing what others take for granted.
From the first book The Stranger You Seek, we have come to know Keye Street's life and how as a Chinese orphan adopted by white parents in Atlanta, Keye has always felt a bit out of place. Family is everything to her and when her mentally unstable addiction prone cousin Miki calls in a panic, Keye knows where she should be even if it is the last thing that she wants to do.
Photojournalist Miki Ashton is being threatened by a stalker, a person that reveals himself in a window at Miki's home. The problem is that he is on the inside looking out as Miki is putting her key into the front door. Fleeing to Keye's home for help and reassurance, they return the next day only to find a grisly message left by the unknown assailant. OK so this time, high maintenance Miki is not exaggerating.
To make matters worse, this "gift" that is found at Miki's can be tied to two murders in Atlanta. Private investigator Dr. Keye Street and the Atlanta Police Department have a serial killer on their hands. What is the connection? Where does Miki know him from and could what seem to be irrelevant scraps from the crime scenes actually tie everything together.
Amanda Kyle Williams does not just tell one story here; there is a secondary storyline that the reader is following. One that I felt was completely irrelevant and seemed to be placed there for shock value only. The primary plot involving the serial killer is intense enough without needing a secondary distraction. Maybe Ms Williams felt that the reader needed a break from the intensity, but throwing in a story about a crematorium was just a little out of place.
Overall, I enjoy this series; Keye is not a perfect person. She is a bit broken and damaged which is what makes her all the more appealing to me. Like this series, Keye is a work in progress and each book reveals a little bit more about her and her demons and how step by step she is battling back.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Better Than an Average Mystery
By Karie Hoskins
I've mostly moved away from reading mysteries/thrillers...unless 1) they are of the Jo Nesbo/Stieg Larsson variety or 2) it's summertime. "Stranger in the Room" ended up on my reading list because of reason #2 - and I ended up liking it.
The first third or so was sort of "more of the same" when it comes to mysteries featuring former cop/FBI/CIA - turned PI. Keye Street is a recovering alcoholic, working on keeping her life and business together. I wasn't totally involved in the plot - but did admire some of the descriptions of the South/Southern living.
"I'd been treated to this kind of suspicions from animals all my life, thanks to my mother's attractions to wild things. But her love of nature and the desire to rescue the things it abandoned was, to her children, a glorious excursion into a heart she could not always freely share. My brother and I grew up with dew-covered grass slapping our ankles as we trailed behind our mother on early-morning treks through the rolling acreage behind the Methodist Children's Home just a few blocks from our house. We followed her down the hill to the pond, where a pair of blue herons became so still at our arrival that we mistook them for driftwood at the water's edge. But we always looked for them. Blue herons never fall out of love, Mother had told us. We tossed bread crumbs to the ducks and geese, and watched the fog light up out of the reeds, then burn off the lake in the early-morning sun. Jimmy and I know the songs of mockingbirds and the sudden stillness of a meadow at the shrill warning of a red-tailed hawk."
At moments like these, what could be an average mystery, raises up to the level of a well written novel.
The latter part of the book was more interesting, as I settled into the writing and realized that Keye was not the hard-boiled, train wreck of a detective that is the star of most mysteries. There was something compelling about her, and the fact that she was able to maintain a healthy relationship with another detective, that kept me reading and at the end, put the book down with a sense of some well-spent summer reading time.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Keye Street is a welcome, and much needed, female addition to the mystery/thriller genre
By QueenKatieMae
After reading her thriller, The Stranger You Seek, by Amanda Kyle Williams I was hoping she would continue with a series. The main reason? Her lead character, Keye Street. A PI working out of Atlanta, carrying lots of baggage, wonderfully flawed, tough and independent, Street is a welcome addition to the growing roster of women in the mystery/thriller genre. And with Williams' second novel, Stranger in The Room, readers see that Street will be around for awhile.
Street is a Chinese-American raised in Atlanta by Caucasian parents after the murder of her grandparents; a horrifying experience she witnessed and still remembers. Highly intelligent with a PhD, Street worked as a profiler for the Bureau until her self-destructive addiction to alcohol destroyed her career. Now four years clean, the recovering Street runs a detective agency with her computer genius co-worker, Neil. With the addition of her sexy best friend, now lover, Lieutenant Aaron Rauser of the APD, Street's life, while not perfect, is starting to improve.
One night, her cousin Miki, a talented photographer, also with self-destructive tendencies, calls in a panic. She saw a man wearing a mask hiding and waiting for her in her living room. The police find nothing and she needs Street's help, and support, to prove she's not just a crazy drugged out freak with a mental health history looking for attention. Growing up with Miki, Street knows she can be melodramatic, but she is willing to help out family.
When Rauser is called in after a thirteen year-old boy is found strangled to death, he also asks for Street's assistance. Her talent as a profiler has helped the Atlanta PD immensely in the past, most recently with the Wishbone Killer. After an elderly man is discovered murdered and grotesquely displayed in Miki's house, Street begins to think all three incidents are related. But how? And, why?
Because the APD does not pay her bills, Street and Neil take a case from a previous client and travel outside of Atlanta to discover why a dead woman's urn contains dry cement and not her ashes. They stumble upon a grisly secret that is based on real events from a few years ago.
Street misses her former job, she still feels the thrill of putting together the evidence to puzzle out a mystery. She also misses the thrill of alcohol coursing through her body and she has stubbornly avoided her AA meetings for two years. Her mind, constantly brainstorming, works overtime to help Rauser and Miki, and abstain from alcohol.
Williams has created in Street a compelling and likable heroine with a wicked sense of humor and tough as nails attitude. She's flawed, funny, intelligent, independent and has a cat named White Trash. Her boyfriend, Rauser, is smart, sensitive, professional, and hot. They make a great combination solving murders and as a couple. And Williams paces her mystery well with intriguing twists and macabre breakthroughs.
One does not need to read The Stranger You Seek before picking up this novel, but it is also a great mystery which also shows the evolving relationship of Rauser and Street from friends to lovers. I know Williams has already started her third Street novel, and I will definitely be in line to buy it.
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