A woman's nightmareNigth after night, Michelle Ransom is trapped in a terrifying dreamworld where the faceless bodies of murdered woman haunt her, drawing her ever closer to the edge of madness. Is it all in her mind ... or all too real ?
A cop's redemption
Since his wife's death, grief and alcohol have slowly consumed LAPD detective Amiel "Touch" Benson. Until a chance meeting with Michelle Ransom reminds him what he once was and what he once had.
A killer's ritual
When Michelle's visions come to life in very real and very disturbing crime scenes, Benson is forced to consider the impossible. Is Michelle truly psychic ? Or is she a suspect ?
Either way, Benson must risk everything to find out. Because the final ritual has already begun.
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Sometime after Benson's wife death we find Benson in disturbing condition: grief and alcohol made him unreliable not really a pleasure to work with. His true friend and partner Amanda still on his side to hide his flaws but getting annoyed by his overall appearance and work attitude.
Their new case needs a leading detective and Benson still is the best. Surprisingly his old high school sweetheart Michelle Ransom seems to be somehow involved as she comes forward confessing about her dreams of dead girls, locations and the victims cry for help.
Is she truly a psychic or is she the crazy killer on an Egyptian trip who lately killed three girls by mummification or is someone playing a dangerous game and Michelle became the psychic receiver ?
Time pressures when her beautiful daughter Jana is abducted and together the team has to find the girl before she becomes the next victim of the Mummykiller.
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I was a little bit disappointed by the second novel in this "series" which hasn't been continued since 2002. Compared to Still Life, the first novel, the characters, especially Amanda's felt a little bit flat this time but she's still sticking to her unloved husband, secretly wondering if things couldn't be better for her if she wouldn't work together with Benson, the man she secretly desires. She considers herself his friend and vice versa.
Benson is a wreck but when he notices how important a clear head and good work in this case becomes to him as a detective and personally he soon pulls himself together
becoming the detective he was.
Overall I liked it, the plot was nicely exercised but something was missing I couldn't quite fathom. It might be the feeling of reading a book that was made for TV instead of a novel.
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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Onyx (February 1, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451410335
ISBN-13: 978-0451410337
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