Blood and Circumstance
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $4.99
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Publisher Description
From the acclaimed author who has mastered his own genre of psychological mystery, 'Blood and Circumstance' takes on issues of mental illness, family bonds, and nature versus nurture. Told entirely through the pretrial interview sessions between an accused murderer and his court-appointed psychologist, this suspenseful tale leaves the reader wondering exactly whom they can trust.
About the Author: Frank Turner Hollon lives in Alabama with his wife and children. He is the author of 'The God File', 'A Thin Difference', 'The Point of Fracture', 'The Wait', 'Austin and Emily', and 'Life Is A Strange Place' which was developed into the movie 'Barry Munday'. The film 'Blood and Circumstance', based on Frank's novel by the same title, is currently in production.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Reading like an offbeat criminal justice version of the talking-head film My Dinner with Andre, attorney Hollon's latest takes an intriguing look at the nature of mental capacity. The bulk of the novel consists of psychiatric sessions conducted in prison by Dr. Ellis Andrews with inmate Joel Stabler, accused of the murder of his brother, Danny. Joel's uncanny intelligence enables him to turn the tables on his interrogator, manipulating the doctor into empathizing with the accused, who claims that he took his sibling's life to spare Danny from the ravages of mental illness that devastated their father. The reliability of Joel's memories is called into question, leading to a satisfyingly ambiguous ending. The author's gift for understated dialogue makes the conversations between doctor and patient particularly compelling.
