03033cam a2200445 i 4500 552417886 TxAuBib 20090405120000.0 141024s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003054447 9780743245524 25.95 0743245520 25.95 TxAuBib rda Brown, Sandra, 1948- Hello, Darkness / Sandra Brown. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2003. ©2003. 406 p. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The host of a late night, call-in radio show, Paris Gibson joins with police psychologist Dean Malloy to identify a mysterious caller known only as "Valentino" before he kills a woman whom he feels has wronged him. For Paris Gibson, her popular late-night radio show is both an escape and her one real contact with the outside world. Since moving to Austin to ease the pain of past, tragic mistakes, she has led a life of virtual solitude, coming alive only when she hosts her show. To her loyal listeners, she is a wise and trusted friend who not only takes their music requests but listens to their problems and occasionally dispenses advice. Paris's world of isolation is brutally threatened, however, when one listener -- a man who identifies himself only as "Valentino" -- tells her that her on-air advice to the girl he loves has caused her to leave him and that now he intends to exact his revenge. First he plans to kill the girl, whom he has abducted -- which he says he will do in 72 hours -- then he will come after Paris. Joined by the Austin police department, Paris plunges into a race against time in an effort to find Valentino before he can carry out his threat to kill -- and to kill again. To her dismay, she finds that one of the people she must work with is crime psychologist Dean Malloy, a man with whom she shares a history that had a catastrophic effect on both their lives. His presence arouses old passions, forcing Paris to confront painful memories that she had come to Austin to forget. As the clock ticks down, and Valentino's threats come closer and closer to becoming a reality, Paris suddenly finds herself forced to deal with a killer who may not be a stranger at all. Goodreads 20031007. Young women Crimes against Fiction. Police psychologists Fiction. Radio broadcasters Fiction. Kidnapping Fiction. Young women Crimes against Fiction. Kidnapping Fiction. Kidnapping. fast Police psychologists. fast Radio broadcasters. fast Young women fast Crimes against. Thrillers (Fiction.) fast Fiction. fast Thrillers (Fiction.) lcgft Detective and mystery fiction. fast TXGRD