Author: dennispalumbo
Best Book of 2018 in Thriller/Suspense by Suspense Magazine Psychologist Dr. Daniel Rinaldi consults with the Pittsburgh Police. His specialty is treating victims of violent crime – those who’ve survived an armed robbery, kidnapping, or sexual assault, but whose traumatic experience still haunts them. Head Wounds picks up where Rinaldi’s investigation in Phantom Limb left off, turning the tables … Limb left off, turning the tables on him as he, himself, becomes the target of a vicious killer. “Miles Davis saved my life.” With these words Rinaldi becomes a participant in a domestic drama that blows up right outside his…
On a blistering summer day, a bank robbery goes wrong, resulting in the deaths of all the hostages except Treva Williams. Pittsburgh psychologist and trauma expert Daniel Rinaldi is called in by the police to treat Treva. Soon an unforeseen series of events plunges the investigating officers, Sergeant Harry Polk, Detective Eleanor Lowrey, and Rinaldi into a vortex of mistaken identity, … kidnapping, and surprising revelations about District Attorney Leland Sinclair’s gubernatorial campaign. Is Sinclair somehow involved in the bank case? Rinaldi’s attention is diverted by the suicide of a young patient and his growing attraction to Eleanor, as the…
Psychologist and Pittsburgh Police Department consultant Daniel Rinaldi has a new patient. Lisa Harland, a local girl, once made a splash in Playboy and the dubious side of Hollywood before bottoming out. Back home, down and out again, she married one of the city’s richest and most ruthless tycoons. Lisa’s challenge to Danny is that she intends to commit suicide by 7:00 PM. His therapist skills … skills may buy some time—but, exiting, she’s kidnapped right outside his office.Summoned to the Harland estate, Danny is forced, through a bizarre sequence of events, to be the bag man on the ransom…
When a patient bearing an unusual resemblance to him is savagely murdered, psychologist Daniel Rinaldi is thrown into a twisted race to solve the crime before the killer’s true target can be reached…