Another doctors & cops adrenaline-packed thriller: A murderous religious zealot threatens women (“sinners!”), and a little baby. First, tension enters the relationship of young doctors Jill Raney and David Levine over what to do about newborn Jesse. They both love him, but David feels he’d be safer adopted anonymously. Their stress turns to horror when they discover that a killer with hideous … killer with hideous attack methods is after certain women, and Jesse — whom he calls “devil spawn” — and Jill & David’s hospital which he calls “the devil’s workshop which must be destroyed!” Jill and David join forces with the police in a terrifying race to track down a monster, and to prevent an unthinkable catastrophe.
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The first three words, “Dead bodies ahead,” do much more than directing Jill Raney to the anatomy lab, where a cadaver would be dissected as part of her med school education—they foreshadow what to expect in this gripping story. The author, J.A. Schneider, brings us to face our most basic emotions, and the tensions between them when they create …
Great Psychological thriller
I was contacted by the author to read and review this particular book, because she had just read another review that I had written. She contacted me via Goodreads, and said that although this was the third in a series, it could be read standalone. I think she is right about that up to a point. There are obvious reasons for reading a series in …