Second Chance
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
Clients never tell the whole story. Harry Stoner had taken a snowy drive to Cincinnati psychiatrist Phil Pearson’s mansion to hear the tale of daughter Kirsten—emotionally disturbed and missing. But the doctor left out the parts about his first wife’s suicide and his second wife’s bedroom eyes that were already chasing the winter cold from Stoner’s blood. That’s why Stoner suspected the search for Kirsten could take a kinky turn. He’d seen teens driven by desperation before—the dark things hidden deep in troubled minds become too much for flesh and blood to bear. And Kirsten’s secrets were tied to an act so chilling that its reemergence could tear lives apart, unleashing passions so violent that even the hard heart of a seasoned PI could break or be stopped forever.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this flimsy tale a Cincinnati PI Harry Stoner seems a shadow puppet of the once provocative and introspective detective seen in such earlier series installments as Extenuating Circumstances . Stoner is hired by psychiatrist Phil Pearson and second wife Louise to locate Phil's daughter Kirsty, a University of Chicago student. At the school, Stoner learns that Kirsty's brother Ethan solicited her help in confronting the ex-convict who, he believes, killed their mother. As Stoner unearths the records to check whether Estelle Pearson committed suicide, as the police ruled, or was murdered by psychopath Herbert Talmadge, as Ethan suspects, police find Ethan's Volare on the bank of the Miami River (near the site where his mother's body was found), empty except for blood-stained lingerie. Fearing that Kirsty and Ethan have been murdered, Stoner steps up his search through a maze of cold trails and long-forgotten sins. It's bad enough to offer an implausible plot, beginning with the Pearsons' unlikely hiring of a private investigator, and a predictable villain, but reducing Stoner to a formula gumshoe devoid of insight will be a heartbreaker for his fans. Mysterious Book Club selection.
