The Dollmaker
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- ¥560
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- ¥560
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"A tour de force that has it all." —Annelise Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of A Death in Door County
"You will devour this book." —Barbara Conrey, USA Today bestselling author of Nowhere Near Goodbye and international bestselling author of My Secret to Keep
No one is safe. Not when the Dollmaker lurks in the shadows.
When Dawn Hildegard's best friend Rose is kidnapped by "The Dollmaker," a crazed serial killer who creates "art" from women's bodies, she drops everything to find her—including her dream of becoming a doctor. With the help of a handsome new acquaintance and his mysterious brother, they set off to find the killer. Although they quickly become friends, Dawn cannot shake the uneasy feeling that the brothers know more about the murders than they admit.
As more and more victims are found murdered and displayed throughout town, Dawn must use her wits to find Rose before it's too late. And before she too becomes the Dollmaker's next victim.
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Physician Dawn Hildegard, the 21-year-old heroine of this underwhelming serial killer yarn set in 1920 Newport, R.I., from Shamy (The Redpoint Crux), is struggling to find her feet in her profession, given the pervasive resistance to the idea of being treated by a woman. Her professional worries soon take a back seat to the concern caused by the arrival in Newport of the Dollmaker, an itinerant serial killer, "who killed young girls and hacked off their limbs, only to sew their different body parts back together." Dawn involves herself in identifying the sadistic murderer after her closest friend, Rose Waterford, the prima ballerina in the company she herself dances with, disappears. Frantic to find Dawn before it's too late, the physician allies herself with a new acquaintance, Gideon Hemsworth, whose attractive appearance unsettles her, and who has his own reasons for bringing the Dollmaker to justice. Romantic subplots, such as Dawn's mother's attempts to get her daughter wed, add little, and the final reveal disappoints. The execution falls short of the book's promising premise, a pioneering female doctor forced to search for a murderer who may have abducted her friend. Fans of serial killer fiction can safely take a pass.
