Angel of Mercy
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Publisher Description
A police detective confronts a nurse with an unusual bedside manner and her chilling twin sister in Andrew Neiderman’s page-turning thriller
Palm Springs detective Frankie Samuels is on medical leave when a rash of suspicious suicides rock his town. Against the advice of his doctor and his supervisor, he investigates the case of a grieving widower who died of insulin shock, overdosing on his wife’s meds, along with a sleep aid called Dilantin. But the police can’t find any Dilantin in the man’s medicine cabinet. The second victim, another surviving spouse, perishes from a lethal dose of chloral hydrate.
Private-duty nurse Faye Sullivan seems to be the common denominator in the deaths. But Faye has a sister: an identical twin named Susie, who also has a connection to the victims. As Samuels discovers more clues that don’t add up, his suspicion begins to fall decisively on the two women. But the truth is more terrifying—and deadly—than he can imagine.
“[Andrew Neiderman’s] forte has always been his intricate, suspenseful stories. . . . He delivers the goods here.” —Booklist
“[Andrew Neiderman is] an expert weaver of suspense.” —Fresh Fiction
“A master of psychological thrillers.” —V. C. Andrews
Andrew Neiderman was born in Brooklyn and grew up in New York’s scenic Catskill Mountains region. A graduate of the University at Albany, State University of New York, from which he also received his master’s in English, Neiderman taught at Fallsburg Junior-Senior High School for twenty-three years before pursuing a career as a novelist and screenwriter. He has written more than forty thriller novels under his own name, including The Devil’s Advocate, which was made into a major motion picture for Warner Bros., starring Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves, and Charlize Theron, and is in development as a stage musical in London. Neiderman has also written seventy New York Times–bestselling novels for the V. C. Andrews franchise. He lives with his family in Palm Springs, California. Visit him on Facebook and at www.neiderman.com.
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An overweight cop with a heart problem pursues a series of suspicious suicides among the elderly of Palm Springs, Calif., in Neiderman's ( Someone's Watching ) less than enthralling crime novel. Against the advice of his wife, his physician and his superiors, Frankie Samuels, on medical leave, keeps current on a pattern of local deaths in which the demise of a terminally ill, usually elderly person is soon followed by the suicide of the grieving spouse. Frankie determines that in most cases the ill partner had been cared for by private duty nurse Faye Sullivan; readers know early that Faye's twin sister Susie has volunteered to comfort the bereaved. Frankie confronts Faye and in the process has a heart attack, leaving him at her mercy. Besides Frankie's pleasantly flawed character, no further surprises redeem Neiderman's predictable plot.
