# The Advent Killer

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- Book: [The Advent Killer](https://www.bookquiver.com/alastair-s-gunn/the-advent-killer) ([The Advent Killer.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alastair-s-gunn/the-advent-killer.md))
- Authors: [Alastair S. Gunn](https://www.bookquiver.com/alastair-s-gunn)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-14-0591-444-4
- Pages: 464
- Published: 2013-11-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

At first they said it was coincidence. Number one drowned; number two beaten to death. But when a third woman is murdered at exactly one a. m. on a third consecutive Sunday, DCI Antonia Hawkins finds herself on the hunt for a cold, careful killer whose victims seem to be chosen at random. As public panic spreads in the weeks before Christmas, Hawkins and her team have to stop a killer whose twisted motives can only be guessed at before another week brings another victim. When the clock strikes one . . .