Bloodprint
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Following a devastating tragedy that claimed the life of her husband, Madeleine Frank has fled the Florida Keys for the safe surroundings of Bath. But as a psychotherapist trying to help patients heal after traumatic events, she knows only too well that it's impossible to recover from some losses.
Just as she's starting to forget the scars of her past, Madeleine is thrown off-balance by the arrival of a new patient. Sensing something familiar in this damaged and hostile woman, Madeleine is disturbed to discover that strains of her patient's childhood eerily echo her own darkest secret.
The increasingly complex relationship between Madeleine and her client, Rachel, will unleash a terrifying series of events which neither could have predicted - and which neither can control.
And at the heart of the terror lies the fate of a child.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sewell's unwieldy second novel of psychological suspense may disappoint fans of her 2008 debut, Ice Trap. After Madeleine Frank's husband is killed during a hurricane at their Key West home, she moves to Bath, England, where she becomes a psychotherapist. When a new client, Rachel Locklear, describes her relationship with her ex-lover, pimp and father of her son, Madeleine at first assumes it's a case of domestic abuse. But as Rachel opens up further, Madeleine realizes that their lives may be intertwined in a bond that could have fatal consequences. The heroine's Cuban-born mother, who was once a powerful Santera but now suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and is institutionalized in the U.K., offers psychic predictions about Madeleine that don't enhance our understanding of her thinly drawn character. A couple of unnecessary subplots involve Madeleine's fascination with ants and her prison sessions with a murderer who's little more than a watered-down Hannibal Lecter.
