A string of troubled young women committing suicide is haunting the Twin Cities - but FBI Agent Bernadette Saint Clare has a hunch that these women didn't die by their own hand...It's a big leap to take, and Bernadette's going to need some serious evidence to back it up. Unfortunately, her best lead is an uncooperative psychiatrist, and when Saint Clare resorts to using her second sight, she'll discover dark secrets in the doctor's past as complex as they are disgusting.
With a cast of characters including a partner who's no longer among the living and a handsome boss who's available, this is the most unique psychological thriller you're bound to read all year.
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In this second novel featuring FBI Agent Bernadette Saint Clare and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Garcia, the investigators are determined to solve the death of six young, troubled girls who presumably killed themselves through drowning. When the seventh girl is found drowned in her bathtub and filled with Lithium prescribed by her psychiatrist they feel the drownings that have occurred lately can't be a coincidence.
A vague description of the possible killer and the few leads they are following end in a blind alley with their subjects hiding behind their lawyers without any real reason.
There is young, handsome professor Wakefielder giving literature classes and seems to take advantage of his female students.
The psychiatrist Luke VanHalder isn't helpful either with not releasing the involved girls files.
Bernadette gets hunches of all of them but can't quite figure out more due to her sight. The pressure on Bernadette and Garcia rises when professor Wakefielder calls to let them know that one of his students is missing and Bernadette's sight tells her that the killer has already captured his next victim. They don't know yet the depth of the cobweb and all it's angles they are sitting in but will soon discover nothing is as it seems and past and present are ultimately connected together and shocking.
Bernadette's connection to this killer is intense and when he cuts himself with a razor she discovers the depth of her connection with her own blood dripping from her face. Facing the killer could mean to shoot herself if she tries to shoot him in self defense.
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Bernadette's character doesn't seem to have developed much more compared to the first novel but plotwise the author certainly did. It was interesting that the crimes weren't exactly solved due to Bernadette's sight but more to her combination of the facts. She seems a bit brisk and certainly would have been more successful in her investigations without threatening each and every subject on her list.
A great addition and not at all a surprise is her dead college, Ruben Creed, who helped during her investigations.
Exciting and a good read !
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Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Doubleday; 1 edition (May 20, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385518757
ISBN-13: 978-0385518758
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