How long does it take to read The Killing Hour?
The Killing Hour by Lisa Gardner takes about 5 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of FBI Profiler, or Quincy & Rainie
Previous: The Next Accident Next: Gone
About 5 hours 56 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2003. 324 pages, about 89,100 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Each time he struck, he took two victims. Day after day, he waited for the first body to be discovered--a body containing all the clues the investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited...prey to a slow but certain death. The clock ticked--salvation was possible. The police were never in time. Years have passed; but for this killer, time has stood still. As a heat wave of epic proportions descends, the game begins again. Two girls have disappeared...and the clock is ticking. Rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy knows the killer’s deadline can be met. But she’ll have to break some rules to beat an exactingly vicious criminal at a game he’s had time to perfect. For the Killing Hour has arrived....
Subjects: Government investigators in fiction, Women detectives, Kidnapping, Serial murders, Government investigators, Detective and mystery stories
