Helpful Score: 3
This is my first Eileen Dreyer thriller and what a ride it was.
Molly, a 52-year old Vietnam vet, is an emergency room nurse in St. Louis who begins to get messages from a serial killer - likely someone from her past. The thing is, she isn't sure who it is.
With the help of her collegues and a love interest that Molly isn't sure she's interested in, Molly tries to piece together the mind of a killer in the hopes of discovering who it could be.
With elegant twists and turns, Dreyer's prose weaves a tantalizing tale of emotional disfuction, obsession and abuse into an intriguing novel that will keep readers turning the pages.
And Dreyer's technique - not so heavy on medical terminology that it gets dry - allows the author to join the plot and subplot with a twist at the end that will leave some readers gasping.
This review is deliberately vague because I don't want to give anything away. Dreyer is dead on in her description of a serial killer's thought processes and the measures law enforcement - and one desperate woman - will take to catch the killer.
Molly, a 52-year old Vietnam vet, is an emergency room nurse in St. Louis who begins to get messages from a serial killer - likely someone from her past. The thing is, she isn't sure who it is.
With the help of her collegues and a love interest that Molly isn't sure she's interested in, Molly tries to piece together the mind of a killer in the hopes of discovering who it could be.
With elegant twists and turns, Dreyer's prose weaves a tantalizing tale of emotional disfuction, obsession and abuse into an intriguing novel that will keep readers turning the pages.
And Dreyer's technique - not so heavy on medical terminology that it gets dry - allows the author to join the plot and subplot with a twist at the end that will leave some readers gasping.
This review is deliberately vague because I don't want to give anything away. Dreyer is dead on in her description of a serial killer's thought processes and the measures law enforcement - and one desperate woman - will take to catch the killer.
Helpful Score: 1
Really good book with a VERY lovable main character. Page turner, thrilling, and a great surprise at the ending.
Another great medical thriller from Dreyer
This author is fabulous.. I have read everything she has written. I like her better than Cornwell!
Keeps you on the edge of your seat. Very suspensful.
This book was very intense and keeps you sitting on the edge of your chair until the very end. I've read all of her books and they are all quite good.
A serial killer and a trauma nurse and lots of intense action.
Very good read with an older heroine. Having her teenage nephew arrive on her doorstep complicates her life.
Wonderful twist at the end!
a really good story. you never really know who did it till the very end. it has many twists and turns. gory at times and always tense.
i will read more by this author
i will read more by this author
This author writes some excellent dialogue. I can never really get into the character of Molly - she seems a little too perfect to me and I can never quite suspend my disbelief that someone like this actually exists. Still though the scenes make up for this small flaw
Eileen Dryer takes you into the dark corners and intense moments of the world she knows best: the ER and the office of the Medical Examiner in St Louis.
Smart Provocative: Tami Hoag
Turbo charged--Top Drawer: Kirkus Reviews
The next best thing in crime fiction:Keith Ablow
Smart Provocative: Tami Hoag
Turbo charged--Top Drawer: Kirkus Reviews
The next best thing in crime fiction:Keith Ablow
Page-turner,easy read.
An excellent and surprising thriller, well-plotted, and quick to read. Molly Burke makes an unlikely but inspiring and intellient heroine; would definitely read this author again!
Very interesting psychology, very graphic violence, great surprise at the end.
Mollie Burke has been an advocate for abused children for many years. Now one is sending her gifts. Human bones. She must find him before he kills again. Very good book
Molly Burke is a death investigator and trauma nurse for the city of St. Louis who has seen every type of atrocity and more than her share of heartbreak. And she knows that no good deed goes unpunished. For years she tried to save the abused children who came through her ER. She's learned that she can save some kids, but others will be lost to their horrific families. Now a child she once tried to save is all grown up. His life has been unspeakable. His deeds are now unfathomable. And he wants Molly's attention. A killer has been created and he will stop at nothing to make sure Molly Burke won't ignore him now. To make matters even more complicated, Molly's brother asks her to watch his sixteen-year-old son, who seems to have left a string of "incidents" in his wake, forcing her to face the fact that no family is without its secrets.
enjoyed it
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
