Darker Than Night Literature Analysis #1

1.The main characters of this book are Quinn and The Night Prowler. The Night Prowler is a murder of this book and only kills married couple. Quinn, the detective,  has to find him and stop him from killing these couples.
A couple of things the Night Prowler does before killing the couples is leaving the female victim gifts, he knows she will like and will think that here husband had gotten it for her. Also he leaves very expensive food in the fridge for them too. Quinn and some other detectives figure this out, but don't  how it will help their case.
The Night Prowler has a history for why he does what he does. If you want to know why and what happens to him and Quinn read the book,  Darker Than Night, by John Lutz.
2. The theme of the book even though you think that you can't be caught, if you never make a mistake when doing something wrong, you still have a big chance of getting caught. And example is The Night Prowler was watching the news Quinn was talking about how he would be caught The Night Prowler soon, The Night Prowler thought, "So Quinn thinks" (355).
3. The auther's tone, I'm not really sure of. He wants you to see all the colors though, he wants you to smell what the characters smell, what they fell too. Examples are "White powder, pink sex, green money, red vengeance, the blue eyes of the gods..." (355), "Cara remained curled on the bed, wrapping her bare arms about her head and whimpering" (193), and "Before or after you twist off his head? 'What niche say?'" (63).
4. I don't want to give away who the killer is bit the yellow rose symbolizes his history, he leaves them knowing that the women with think that their husbands had left them, for them. "So that was it for the roses, he didn't ask about them, so he probably did buy them..." (304).
The author uses third person omnition a lot an example is one of the thoughts of one of the first female victims, "Not me! Not me! Not yet!" (11).
He also uses many idioms a simple example is,"...until time itself wears it out" (305).
John Lutz also uses a billions of flashbacks about the life of a young man who has an affair with his foster mother. "'Milford's sleeping like the dead,' she said. 'He won't hear us.' She took Luther's hand and led him to the couch" (241).
An example of imagery is in one of the sides stories when a woman is getting beaten,"The woman continued crawling toward the door, and the whip continued to lash her bare buttocks,her meaty thighs, and sometimes, to surprise her, her bare back" (236).