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Blood Trance (Alex & Maddie Phillips, Bk 2)
Blood Trance - Alex & Maddie Phillips, Bk 2 Author:R. D. Zimmerman Amateur sleuth Alex Phillips and his sister Maddy, a blind, crippled hypnotist/psychologist living as a wealthy recluse on an island in Michigan, make a riveting return from their debut in Death Trance. Here they investigate a murder involving one of Maddy's former patients in Chicago. — In a series of hypnosis-induced flashbacks -- following a b... more »loody opening scene in -- Alex tells Maddy about what happened when he went to Chicago to see her ex-patient Loretta, who had recently written to Maddy for help. After several meetings with Loretta and her family, Alex is shocked to find Loretta's hated stepmother dead and Loretta holding what may be the murder knife and eager to confess to the killing. Listening to Alex's hypnosis-induced accounts of harrowing events before the murder, Maddy halts the action like a film director, probing his memory for clues.
A further complication surfaces: an unidentified member of Loretta's family was driving the car that killed a little girl, whose father had been another patient of Maddy's. The momentum is further accelerated by accruing family secrets that finally trigger the story's startling resolution on Maddy's island.« less