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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HARPER COLLINS; ePub edition (December 27, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0008250383
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J.D. Barker is the New York Times and international best-selling author of numerous novels, including DRACUL and THE FOURTH MONKEY. His latest, A CALLER'S GAME, released February 22. He is currently collaborating with James Patterson. His books have been translated into two dozen languages, sold in more than 150 countries, and optioned for both film and television. Barker resides in coastal New Hampshire with his wife, Dayna, and their daughter, Ember.

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Nicole Goodman

suspenseful

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 5, 2023

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This book kept me on the edge of my seat. I love the fine details that keep your mind wondering. Just when you think you might get it, you quickly realize how wrong you are. Full of twists and surprises.

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Jen B.

Fast paced and engaging but lacks in other areas

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 18, 2023

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This is the second book in the 4mk series. The story is good, the writing is sub-par. Same as the first one. I thought maybe there would be improvement in the writer's style, but there hasn't been so far. Lucky for him he can tell a good story.

The reason I bumped this from 4 to 3 stars is the ending. It's a literal cut off. Not a cliff-hanger, which I expect in a series, but a cut-off. It's like the just said "Well, I'm done here" and stopped writing.

Another reason I 3-starred this one is that things are way too convenient. These things happen in the book and it's like no way, it's way too convenient. Some of it makes no sense at all, how things would happen the way they did.

Will I read the next one? Yes, but only because it's on KU. I wouldn't actually go out and purchase it. Like I said, the story is a good one: fast paced, engaging but the writing is meh and the convenience factor is just too much.

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Lilly

More twists and turns

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2022

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Love this author.
Just when you think you have it figured out he goes a completely different direction.
Monsters become monsters for a reason.

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joanna elm

Author's Huge Talent For Nail-Biting Suspense

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In Fifth To Die, author J.D. Barker once again demonstrates his huge talent for keeping readers on the edge of their seats. His ability to create nail-biting suspense was very visible in his serial-killer thriller The Fourth Monkey, published last summer, and it is visible again in the sequel, The Fifth To Die.

I must say, however, that I honestly had no idea that the series about a Chicago detective, Sam Porter on the trail of a sadistic serial killer, Anson Bishop was to be a trilogy. I was prepared for more of the same thrilling- by- the- seat- of- your -pants ride in the sequel especially since The Fourth Monkey, as J.D. acknowledges ended on a "little bit of a cliffhanger." But, I had no clue that The Fifth To Die would leave me, metaphorically speaking, hanging by the fingernails from the open door of a chopper hovering a couple of thousand feet above a shark-infested ocean.

Creating Suspense

J.D. appears to follow the Lee Child method of creating suspense. Child, author of the bestselling Jack Reacher novels has said that novelists tend to focus on the wrong question: They want to know what ingredients are required, and how to mix them correctly, in order to create suspense. But, says Child, the question is not "how to bake a cake," but "how to make your family hungry?" In other words, as Child explained in a New York Times article, "as novelists, we should ask or imply a question at the beginning of the story, and then we should delay the answer (make your family wait four hours for dinner!) The big answer is parceled out slowly and parsimoniously."

To say that J.D. Barker parcels out the answers "slowly and parsimoniously" is a huge understatement. At the end of The Fourth Monkey, the reader knows the motivation for the brutal killings by sadistic serial killer, Anson Bishop, but Bishop has eluded capture. In the final twist (of several humdingers) in that first novel of the trilogy, Bishop appears to do a favor for Porter. In return, Bishop has a specific request involving his mother who features prominently in Bishop's diary which falls into Porter's hands at the beginning of the novel.

The diary introduced readers to the serial killer as a boy, and to his equally terrifying parents especially his mother. So, naturally, I could hardly wait to meet this woman in the sequel.

The Fifth To Die

However, The Fifth To Die, starts with Porter being taken off the search for Anson Bishop. Instead, he is assigned to investigate a couple of bizarre murders of young girls. It appears that a second serial killer is stalking, kidnapping, torturing and slaying young women in Chicago.

The questions come fast and furiously in this one: (a) are the serial killings of two girls in Chicago the work of a new serial killer, or is Anson Bishop involved? (b) how has the killer managed to bury the bodies of the recently-kidnapped young women under a layer of ice covering a lagoon which has been frozen for months before they disappeared? (c) will Sam Porter succeed in his secret pursuit of Anson Bishop without getting fired? (d) will he succeed in finding and getting to know whether Anson Bishop's mother is as evil as she is portrayed in Anson's diary? (e) is there still an evil connection between Bishop and his mother?

Anson Bishop's diary is the common thread through both books so far. In The Fifth To Die, it ends on a truly chilling note, giving us just enough of a hint as to how the third and final thriller in the trilogy might unspool.

Or, in the vernacular of Lee Child's analogy, J.D. doesn't just know how to "make the family hungry," he leaves the family totally famished, and then before satisfying its hunger, he snatches away the plate. Again.

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JD Barker does it again, I need book 3!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 10, 2018

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The Fifth to Die (4MK Thriller #2) by JD Barker
5 stars!!!

“You can’t play God without being acquainted with the devil.”

Damn JD Barker and damn Anson Bishop aka 4MK. OMG, JD Barker is a cruel, cruel, man, killing me with one hell of a doozy ending that has left me with a gaping mouth, so many theories running around my mind and a headache that could literally explode my brain. For those that follow my blog, you will know that the first book in this series, The Fourth Monkey, was one of my top reads of 2017 and JD Barker does it again with The Fifth to Die.

4MK is at it again, but it seems he has deviated from his usual modus operandi. There are startling similarities and yet some go against the grain. With children going missing at the rate of knots and then their bodies being found, either 4MK is busy or he has an accomplice. With one of their parents also submitting to an untimely death it seems 4MK is once again punishing the children for their parent’s misdemeanours but is also wreaking revenge. The lead investigator from The Fourth Monkey, Sam Porter, is once again on the case, but has this case become too personal? Sam still can’t forgive himself for Bishop’s escape and it is literally eating away at him.

“Look to the place where the monsters hide, Detective. That’s where you’ll find answers.”

4MK is extremely clever, intelligent and leaves only the clues he wants to and once again he has the police and FBI running around in never decreasing circles. 4MK is manipulative, he has no scruples and only has his own agenda, his own end game and he has them all playing, whether they are willing participants or not.

This book has it all, seriously, JD Barker is a genius in manipulation, both with his words and his visceral scene setting. The twist, I HAD NO CLUE! I was simply stunned and speechless. The Fifth to Die is extremely action packed, suspenseful, intriguing, gut curdling, and one of the best psychological thrillers I have ever had the pleasure of reading. I love my crime, I love learning about serial killers, I am fascinated by this topic, I am an avid watcher of crime documentaries, CSI, Criminal Minds, you name it, I watch it, but it is often hard to portray that thrill of TV into words. Yet, JD Barker does it effortlessly.

As I said in my review of The Fourth Monkey… “This author really gets into your head and plays with your mind and that is the sign of an amazing psychological thriller. The twists and turns you will never see coming, the prose utterly engaging and positively chilling, but this is a story that you will never forget and will sickly want more of.” And that still remains. I NEED the next book, like desperately!!

Engaging, absorbing, compelling, intriguing, suspenseful, sick and twisted but as I said above, one unforgettable read. If you love psychological thrillers then this is the cream of the crop. Totally loved every single sick second of it.

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cindy utley

excellent read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 21, 2022

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The thrill of following Sam Porter as he chases 4MK through more history of 4MK crimes and life only to start to realize his own missing history makes this a book one can’t put down. Can’t wait to read on for more of the Sam Porter/4MK story.

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Susan

Not acceptable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 18, 2018

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This book and the one before are both great books, well written and gripping story. They would deserve five stars if the 2nd didn’t end with no conclusion to the story. You have to wait for the next book. I think this is totally unfair and if the writer intends doing a trilogy then he should have the next book ready to read so the story can be tied up and not be left unfinished. I have read a book with no ending and I don’t have a clue when the next book will be published. I will have forgotten the different threads of the story by the time the next book is available. This is not acceptable and seems to be happening more and more with books, where you have to wait for the next in the series to get a conclusion to the story. I hope the next in this series will be available soon.

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Katherine Black

A beginning. A middle. But no end.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 23, 2022

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So very disappointing. This would have received a solid three stars if it hadn’t been for that last page.

Shame on you, Author.

I waited several years for this book. I read The Fourth Monkey and loved it. It works as a standalone, and for anybody wanting a good thriller, I urge you to buy it. It was fantastic. I also warn you not to bother with this one or the next.

I want to be fair to the author. The first book I read was amazing. Because of my waiting time between the one I read and this due to time commitments, I’d have said he’d overtaken Dean Koontz as my favourite author. That’s why this one mattered so much. I actually cared. I mainly read indie authors as part of my work and see it as a refreshing change and a huge treat to read something mainstream.
I couldn’t wait to get into this book and held it back until I went on holiday. I’d read 104 books since the last one, and it was like coming to it new. I had to reconnect with the story and the characters—and I didn’t. I was two-thirds of the way through the book and still struggling to remember who was who. Every character seemed to merge into every other.

We picked up on the ice, pretty much where the last one ended. I didn’t care about the victims or the characters, and everything seemed so long-winded and drawn out. I found the book overwritten with too many eyes going wide and cocked eyebrow sentences that were empty and said nothing.

In the last third, it picked up a bit. I couldn’t put The Fourth Monkey down. If it was overwritten, I didn’t notice because the story was that good. It was hard to believe that these two books were written by the same person. I wouldn’t go as far as to say I was madly into it, but in the last third, at least I knew which character was which. It was a reasonably enjoyable read.

And I turned the page.

…to be continued.

If that’s a SPOILER, I make no apology for it. What the hell? We had a long-winded beginning, and we had some kind of middle—but where the fudge was the ending? Nothing was concluded.

For that reason, I deem this book a complete waste of time. I don’t care who did it. I won’t be reading the next in the series to find out-or, not find out if it’s anything like this one. What a damned shame. Please, author, finish this tired series and write something new to your original standard and give them a beginning, middle and end. I’d go as far as to say series writing may not be for you and to write punchy, brilliant standalone novels. You’d regain a fan in me.

…to be continued. Nah.

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ValC

Unputdownable.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 9, 2022

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This book carrys on seamlessly from book1 with Anson Bishop having escaped and another set of gruesome murders occurring. Is Bishop the perpetrator or is it someone else?

No spoilers here! Just read it for yourself, you'll be glad you did.

Barkers style is similar to Deaver/Patterson ie some lists/short chapters (mostly), and suits this storyline which could be confusing but for the skill of JDB who guides you fluidly throughout with cleanly structured writing and plotting.

Although I was expecting twist, turns and red herrings I was still caught off guard and brilliantly so. The last few pages start to bring together some of the disparate characters which gives great promise for the final book.

I finished reading this last week (only just got around to reviewing) and was a tad disappointed to see that the next book was dearer than what I normally would spend on an ebook...SO...

...I've decided that my husband is treating me to it, although he doesn't know this 😉, on the basis that he would prefer me to be happy and that he would have no argument that you can't put a price on genius (JDB) or love (me). Clever or what?!

Brenda Davies

Absolutely brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 7, 2018

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Exceptional storyline and writing.
Read the 4MK first otherwise you will miss out on a real treat of a series that is compelling, exciting and unputdownable.
This book, like the first, is fast paced and so tense my toes curled. It has multiple storylines, but you won't get lost or confused because J.D brings all the threads together - eventually. It has multiple POV's but again you won't get confused because each character is unique with their own distinct voice. You will enter a world full of believable personalities and this book is rich with excellent dialogue.
I loved Sam Porter even more in this book, but now we have some unanswered questions and I can't wait to find out what's going on. But I will have to wait because this is, of course, not the end.
And then there is Anson Bishop, the sociopath that Porter is obsessed with finding. He has such a brilliant, twisted mind that I'm left admiring him! and that's bad right? Because he's a serial killer, but he draws you in to his sick games where you keep trying to guess his next move and never get it right. He's scary, thrilling and I'm left enthralled by him. He's a man with, 'a steady tick of a clock somewhere in a little nook of my subconscious, a clock more accurate than any hanging on a wall.' And his 'anger can be held in check, bottled and stored and opened when it is most needed.' He makes me shiver with delight.
This is a dark, gritty, compelling read where the tensions builds from the start and doesn't end. I can't wait for the next instalment. Thank you J.D Barker for another masterpiece.

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Barrie Wilson

A LOAD OF CONVOLUTED, CONFUSING TRASH AND PADDED FAR TOO MUCH

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 5, 2019

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Readers, be warned this book is NOT a complete novel. The last page says "to be concluded". The author J.D Barker has CONNED readers by not making it clear that this piece pf trash is just one of a trilogy!...

I found the constant changing about of chapters about several characters most infuriating and ensured the story flowed like treacle! It is all over the place ! The confusing story-line; the one-dimensional characters; the lack of ANY sustained suspense and the general presentation of the novel finally caused me to ask myself, "what the hell is it all about". ….I gave up at page 273.
As one chapter ends the next chapter leaps off into dialogue of another character....back and forth between past and present and different characters.
There are far far, too many characters in this trash...some from events of years ago. All intended to pad out the pages....!.....
Final comment to Mr. Barker, "Be honest with readers!"....Other authors make it clear from the "get-go" if a novel is one of a trilogy etc....Even if I had enjoyed this novel I would NOT purchase the final part on principle!

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