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Eyes: A Susan Shader Novel [Hardcover]

Joseph Glass (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)


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December 23, 1997
As a ten-year-old girl, tragically orphaned, Susan Shader discovered she was psychic.  Touching a photograph of John Lennon one afternoon, she saw him shot to death, years later in New York City.  The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Tate-La Bianca killings, the murderous rampage of Richard Speck--all revealed themselves to an unwilling, confused, and frightened girl.

Now grown up, Dr. Susan Shader is a renowned psychiatrist and criminal profiler whose uncanny gift has made her a celebrity among law enforcement professionals.  She is called upon to help the Chicago police capture the Coed Killer--a savage serial murderer of female college athletes who "signs" his work viciously mutilating his victims.

With Susan's assistance, an arrest is made, the case is closed, and a terrified city breathes a sigh of relief.

Until the next murder.

Her clairvoyance ridiculed, her reputation destroyed, Susan must act and act fast.  She alone can enter the mind of an elusive murderer in time to save the life of his next victim--the most unexpected one of all.  But her desperate pursuit of the killer will force her into a painful reexamination of her own shrouded past.

In Eyes, Joseph Glass unleashes a homicidal mastermind as fiendish as Hannibal Lecter, and introduces Susan Shader, a compelling new literary heroine whose strengths derive from the hidden wellsprings of her character. Combining haunting depths with sheer terror, and reaching levels of emotion rarely touched in a mystery novel, Eyes is a must-read, proceed-at-your-own-risk experience.

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From Library Journal

Three college coeds have been brutally murdered, and the city of Chicago is panic-stricken. The strangulation and ritual eye-gouging in each case point to the police's greatest nightmare?a serial killer. Detective David Gold calls in Dr. Susan Shader, noted psychiatrist and criminal profiler, to help with the case. Susan is also psychic, and her second sight plays a crucial role in helping to identify the killer. But matters take an unexpected turn when the suspect commits suicide and the carnage continues. Digging deeper, Susan uncovers a startling connection between the murder victims and, in so doing, puts her own life and that of her six-year-old son in mortal danger. Glass, a pseudonym, effectively builds the suspense through an unusual and engaging cast of characters in this well-crafted tale. A sound choice for all mystery collections.
-?Maria A. Perez-Stable, Western Michigan Univ. Libs., Kalamazoo
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Kirkus Reviews

A serial killer is stalking Chicago coeds. So far, he's murdered and mutilated three, and neither Detective David Gold nor his consultant, psychic psychiatrist Dr. Susan Shader, has a clue about his identity. But with the fourth victim, an inoffensive housewife who has no obvious parallels with the three students, comes a break in the case--though one that leads to a disastrously mistaken arrest--and the fifth killing, of a University of Chicago dropout, cracks it wide open. Now at last Susan's gift of second sight, coupled with Gold's detective work, is enough to finger the killer just as he's reaching out for his next victim. Despite some streaks of purple prose (``It was easy to see that her long legs led to a rich, sensual pelvis'') and some schoolboy errors (an old-time psychic is hailed for having predicted the Lindbergh kidnapping and the death of Hindenburg years after the facts), the search for the killer is steadily engrossing. But once the perp slips through official fingers and takes his revenge on Susan by striking at her weakest point, the case turns hackneyed, overwrought, and toothless to anybody who believes the claim that this will be only the first of Susan's adventures. Still, Glass, whose pseudonym allegedly conceals a bestselling author, knows how to keep you reading through all the complaints. (First printing of 50,000) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Villard; 1st edition (December 23, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0375500162
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375500169
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,768,721 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Engrossing, June 3, 2000
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Just raced through Eyes in less than a day and I cannot wait for the sequel. Since I'm not a fan of the genre, don't have much of an interest in psychics, and am ambivalent at best about Chicago, I thought I might not get into this, but I had to surrender to the plot. The characters are interesting and show unusual depth for a thriller. I say characters because the peripheral characters here could spawn their own series. I stayed up 3 hours later than I wanted to last night trying to finish this and got up 2 hours before the alarm went off this morning because I knew I couldn't get through the day without knowing how it ended. I immediately went to Amazon.com to see if there was a sequel and was heartened to see that Blood will be coming in July. I recommend this to readers of forsensic detective novels as well as fans of shows like Millennium, The Profiler and even the X-Files. There's also some interesting undercurrents about race relations, Judaica, and psychiatry that are unusually well developed for a thriller, so fans of political novels might also want to give Eyes a try.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Engrossing and lovable characters!!, May 7, 2001
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I really got into this book!! It was in my recommendations and I was a bit hesitant about buying it but I thought what the heck, I'll give it a shot. I am sooo glad I did, as it was one of those books I could not put down. It is engrossing and suspensful. I fell in love with Dr. Susan Shader and there is such depth in her relationship with her son that the authoor is very perceptive in portraying. As a parent I felt her pain and really could not believe how adept Mr. Glass was in making me feel a lot of things throughout the whole book. It is so much more than just a thriller although it does that well too. Very deep and moving and anyone who did not enjoy this book must be made of stone. It shows a real sensitivity that a lot of books lack and I can't wait to read his next novel, "Blood".
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5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT ROLLER COASTER RIDE FOR STORMY W/END WE JUST HAD!!!!, February 4, 1998
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This was realllllllly good....who is Joseph Glass???? hmmmmmmmmmmm.. i see that it is copyrighted by "jsl, inc"......who could that be??? verrrrry easy reading, quite engrossing, quite different....susan is real, emotional, intelligent and a breath of fresh air for all of the readers who are rather sick of patricia cornwell and the like....i really enjoyed this book thoroughly...all of the characters were "fleshed" out quite well and i would most definitely suggest this as the perfect airplane book....the hours will fly by...i want to read more susan shader books...what a marvelous heroine....thanx "joe glass" whoever you are...just keep on writing...but fast....!!!
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