When Dennie Cater embarks on a search for evidence in a lawsuit, she little realizes that she is opening the doors to an inferno. The murder of a psychotherapist who had a shady practice and a bizarre interest in witches' covens and satanic rituals, along with a bloody videotape of his corpse, foreshadowed more horror. The brilliantly inventive chain of plot twists involves Dennie in a mugging, another murder, and an attempt on her own life. Despite the help of handsome police lieutenant Tom Ward, the puzzles surrounding Dennie mushroom. What lies behind the disappearance of Dennie's sisters? Jessica has stopped showing up for work. Beth's bed hasn't been slept in for weeks. Where is Beth hiding? And most disturbing of all--what is Beth's role in the killings? Through the bizarre yet utterly believable events emerges a fully realized portrait of the multiple personality disorder that forms the core of this chilling novel. But it is not until the very last sentence that the author's total mastery becomes crystalline and his tale reaches a gripping and thoroughly satisfying conclusion.
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"When Harold L. Klawans died in his sleep recently at sixty, Chicago lost a sublime, brilliant and altogether infuriating voice. Klawans wrote essays on neurology that were sharper than those of Oliver Sacks. His medical mysteries, set in a megahospital complex remarkably like Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's, where Klawans practiced, were light years better than Robin Cook's. He seemed to have read everything and forgotten nothing." -- Bill Brashler, Chicago Tribune
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Dr. Klawans divides his time between two careers. As a professor of neurology and pharmacology at Rush University in Chicago and a recognized authority on Parkinson's disease and related conditions, he has written over 400 medical articles and written or edited over 50 books on medical topics. His first novel, Sins of Commission (1982), was a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection. He has subsequently published three more mystery thrillers and five collections of tales including Toscanini's Fumble and Newton's Madness. His most recent book is Why Michael Couldn't Hit. Dr. Klawans is also the author of Chekhov's Lie and Trials of an Expert Witness.
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This man could not write a paragraph which didn't captivate its reader,
This review is from: And Mother Makes Thirteen (Hardcover)
Although I picked this book up as a curiosity, to see how a physician with more publications that some university departments produce would write in a pure fiction media. I was very plesently suprised, all of the wit and intellect which Klawans employed in his scientific books was equally captivating and lucidly organized. The story its self is very novel and hard to put down, one that's best to be totally niave to, as any knowledge of the plot diminishes the experience of reading the lead in's. The only thing that bothered me after reading this book and his others on neurology is that there will be no further due to his premature dealth. Do yourself a favour and pick this one up... agood story and good for the brain too.
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