Guilt
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
When a bomb detonates outside a Harvard law school building, killing several including a law student who was counseling Jackie Kelvinski, a woman trying to get out of an abusive marriage, Jackie is afraid that the bomb was set off by her unstable husband. Annie Squires, an investigator helping her out, tries to convince her that's unlikely, but Jackie's not listening. And before the Cambridge police get very far in their investigation to determine who could have committed such a crime, a second deadly bomb explodes, this time at a Cambridge courthouse.
The bomb narrowly misses forensic neuropsychologist Dr. Peter Zak, late for a meeting inside. Peter, suddenly closer to the action that he'd like to be, agrees to help the police by profiling the bomber from some anti-government fliers found at the crime scene. But were they really written by the perpetrator? Or is the bomber's motive more personal, perhaps directed at Jackie, or Peter, or another target? Delving deeper into the mind of the criminal, Peter must work quickly before more lives are lost, including possibly his own.
Guilt, G. H. Ephron's thrilling psychological suspense novel, is a fascinating and surprising novel about motive and murder, survivor's guilt and criminal culpability--and trying to stay one step ahead of a killer.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
For a refreshing change, Ephron's fifth Dr. Peter Zak mystery (after 2003's Obsessed) focuses on a person the Boston-area forensic psychiatrist's love interest, detective Annie Squires rather than a disease. A bomber is terrorizing Cambridge, striking at Harvard Law School and the city courthouse, and Annie believes these fatal explosions could be the work of Joe Klevinski, the abusive husband of Jackie, a recovering drug addict who's begun working in Annie's office. The case gets close to home when Jackie and her young daughter, Sophie, move into Zak's mother's apartment and Klevinski shows up, manipulative and uninvited, at the little girl's birthday party. As the investigation narrows, the police begin to suspect an anarchist at work, a mysterious man on a motor scooter, as the bomber graduates to bigger symbols of authority as his targets. Is the governor of Massachusetts next? Ephron does a fine job of delivering adrenaline-pumping prose, and the cast of characters is consistently interesting. The warm bonds of business and affection that unite the regulars in this series never become cloying, and this book, like its predecessors, evokes a palpable sense of place. FYI:Ephron is the pseudonym for writing team Hallie Ephron and Dr. Don Davidoff.
