The Memory Collector
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A pulse-pounding, race-against-time thriller featuring forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett.
Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett's speciality is the psychological autopsy – an investigation into a person's life to determine whether a death was natural, accidental, suicide, or homicide. When Jo is asked to do a psychological autopsy on a living person – one with a suspect memory who can't be trusted to participate in his own medical care – she knows all her skills will be put to the test. Jo is called to the scene of an aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is behaving erratically. She figures out that Ian Kanan has got anterograde amnesia, and can't form new memories. Jo finds herself racing to save a patient who can walk and talk and yet can't help Jo figure out just what happened to him. Suddenly a string of clues arises, something to do with a super deadly biological agent code-named "Slick", a kidnapping, and a secret partnership gone horribly wrong. Jo realises Kanan's addled mind may hold the key to preventing something terrible from happening in her beloved San Francisco. With time running out, she will have to get deeper into the life of a patient than she ever has before, hoping the truth emerges from the fog of his mind in time to save her city – and herself.
Reviews
‘The next suspense superstar.’ STEPHEN KING
‘Meg Gardiner is an astonishing writer.’ TESS GERRITSEN
‘Riveting…a book you just can’t put down…The Memory Collector is a first-class thriller with non-stop action.’ CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
‘Meg Gardiner captivates…an exceptional follow up to her first Beckett novel, The Dirty Secrets Club.’ CAROLYN LESSARD, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Praise for THE DIRTY SECRETS CLUB:
'Author Gardiner makes every one of her characters leap alive off the page, and I personally am in love with the most compelling of them all, Jo Beckett.’ JEFFERY DEAVER
'The story just keeps coming. She is up there with Michael Connelly and Lee Child.' STEPHEN KING
‘Hitchcockian scenes of suspense will rock even the most jaded thriller reader.’ MIAMI HERALD
About the author
Meg Gardiner is originally from Southern California, where she practiced law and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of five Evan Delaney novels as well as the first Jo Beckett thriller, The Dirty Secrets Club, described by Jeffery Deaver as “A winner all the way.” She lives with her family near London.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Near the start of Edgar-finalist Gardiner's solid follow-up to The Dirty Secrets Club, San Francisco forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett examines Ian Kanan, a distressed airline passenger who turns out to be suffering from anterograde amnesia, which makes it impossible for him to form new memories. Kanan, who's sure that his family has been kidnapped and he's been poisoned, disappears from the hospital before Beckett can learn more. When she starts digging into his background, Beckett discovers not only that Kanan was a security consultant for Chira-Sayf, a nanotechnology company, but that he may have been exposed to Slick, an experimental bioweapon. Along with her SFPD contact, Lt. Amy Tang, and para-jumper boyfriend, Gabe Quintana, Beckett races to find Kanan before the people he's pursuing unleash Slick on San Francisco. Gardiner more than compensates for the sometimes implausible plot with her effective use of Kanan's amnesia and her heroine's resourcefulness.
