Murder Suicide
An hour before inventor John Snow is to undergo experimental brain surgery, he's discovered outside Massachusetts General Hospital, dead from a single bullet wound. Did he commit suicide as the police suspect-or was he murdered? \ Forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger is about to find out. As he digs into Snow's complex past, he discovers a host of tortured relationships: The wife who can never forgive what Snow has done to their child and their marriage... The son who loathes him... The...
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HE POSSESSED WEALTH, FAME, GENIUS-An hour before inventor John Snow is to undergo experimental brain surgery, he's discovered outside Massachusetts General Hospital, dead from a single bullet wound. Did he commit suicide as the police suspect-or was he murdered? AND A DARK SECRET...Forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger is about to find out. As he digs into Snow's complex past, he discovers a host of tortured relationships: The wife who can never forgive what Snow has done to their child and their marriage... The son who loathes him... The beautiful mistress who loves him deeply but can never have him... The business partner intent on taking control of his inventions...THAT COULD DESTROY THE LIVES OF ALL HE KNEW...Whatever secret Snow took to his grave, it is casting a shadow of suspicion over the people who said they loved him. Now Clevenger must venture into a dead man's dark past to unearth the truth-in an explosive mystery of passion and betrayal."Murder Suicide poses intriguing questions...[a] tightly plotted book."-San Antonio Express News"Elaborately plotted...offers the reader more substantial fare than the usual mystery lineup of corpses and cops."-USA TodayPublishers WeeklyNumber five in Ablow's Dr. Frank Clevenger series (after 2003's Psychopath) continues the forensic psychiatrist's insightful investigations into intricate and deadly puzzles. Called in by a stumped Boston police department, Clevenger applies his skills to the mystery surrounding genius inventor John Snow, who is found shot outside Massachusetts General Hospital just an hour before he is to undergo experimental brain surgery. The police want Clevenger to determine if the death is murder or suicide. When Snow's lover, Grace Baxter, is found several days later with a slashed throat and wrists, the question surfaces again. Clevenger is a meticulous procedural investigator; he and partner North Anderson follow each and every lead to its logical, if sometimes tedious, conclusion. Clevenger's m tier is interviewing suspects, and there's a surplus of them as family, friends and enemies, any one of whom could have killed the eccentric Snow, parade through the pages. Clevenger's problematic personal life is again examined in detail: adopted 18-year-old Billy is still challenging Clevenger's shaky parenting skills, and Clevenger's love affair with FBI chief forensic psychiatrist Whitney McCormick is always on-again, off-again. Drugs and alcohol, two other demons from his past, wait in the wings. Clevenger agonizes over all of this while methodically solving the riddle of Snow's murder, playing each of the suspects against the other until he tricks a confession out of the guilty party. While the excitement is not exactly pulse pounding, Clevenger puts in some solid sleuthing, and the low body count is refreshing amid a sea of frenetic thrillers in which victims number in double digits. Agent, Beth Vesel. (July) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
\ From the Publisher\ MURDER SUICIDE\ "Murder Suicide poses intriguing questions...When Clevenger calls everyone into the room at the end, his solution and its surprising twist reminds us of the best of Rex Stout's master-manipulator, Nero Wolfe. And that's only one of the good reasons to pick up this tightly plotted book."-San Antonio Express News\ PSYCHOPATH\ "A superior read."-Entertainment Weekly\ "Dr. Frank Clevenger, forensic psychiatrist and (somewhat reluctant) crime-solver, is quickly becoming one of the genre's most intriguing protagonists...A strange and hypnotic thriller...fascinating."-Booklist\ "A tour de force. Ablow is not satisfied with the superficial. He digs deep to create complex characters."-Orlando Sentinel\ COMPULSION\ "Keith Ablow is king of the psychological thriller. Frank Clevenger is a wonderfully flawed hero, as haunted by his own demons as the sociopaths he faces. Ablow writes like a man possessed - with a pace so blistering the pages will all but singe your hands."-Dennis Lehane, author of MYSTIC RIVER\ "COMPULSION is another really good book by Keith Ablow: compelling, graceful, and nearly impossible to put down."-Robert Parker, author of WIDOW'S WALK\ "Utterly compelling...a roller coaster of a mystery with hairpin twists and turns that shock and astonish. No one burrows into the darkest recesses of the human mind as deeply as Keith Ablow."-Tess Gerritsen, author of THE SURGEON\ "Keith Ablow's setting is the darkest of all-the twists and turns of the human mind. COMPULSION is-pardon the obvious pun-compulsive reading. Great Psychological suspense."-Harlan Coben, author of GONE FOR GOOD\ "Keith Ablow is a master of psychological suspense. This is a dark, taut, terrifying novel, driven by a talented psychiatrist's insights into the human condition. Stoke up the fire, curl up with COMPULSION, and be prepared for a sleepless night."-Michael Palmer, author of FATAL\ "Psychiatrist Frank Clevenger is a hero with heart, soul -- and brains. Fast-paced and frightening, Compulsion is a novel that explores the very nature of evil itself."-Janet Evanovich, author of TEN BIG ONES\ "From the first sentence to the last, Compulsion is mesmerizing. A tense and sexy thriller...featuring an utterly shocking, yet thoroughly convincing family of fiends. A tense and sexy thriller stocked to the brim with juicy characters...With deft intelligence, Ablow maps the torturous terrain of the darkest regions of the human heart."-James Hall, author of BLACKWATER SOUND\ "This series just keeps getting better. Frank Clevenger is a real original: a jeans-clad, black-turtleneck-wearing head shaven loner whose compassion for victims of violent crimes - and the perpetrators of those crimes - threatens to destroy him. Whether Clevenger is entirely fictional, or a reflection of his creator's dark side (Ablow is a practicing forensic psychiatrist; the upshot is the same: he's a brilliant creation and this is a brilliant novel."-Booklist (starred)\ "The present is wounded by the past in an expertly judged psychological thriller ...a solid satisfying case."-Kirkus Reviews\ "Action nimbly shifts from gritty urban Boston to window-dressed Nantucket, and the people and politics are realistically portrayed, including the ballsy but deeply flawed protagonist...this one scores as a great psychological mind-bender."--Publisher's Weekly\ \ \ \ \ \ \ Publishers WeeklyNumber five in Ablow's Dr. Frank Clevenger series (after 2003's Psychopath) continues the forensic psychiatrist's insightful investigations into intricate and deadly puzzles. Called in by a stumped Boston police department, Clevenger applies his skills to the mystery surrounding genius inventor John Snow, who is found shot outside Massachusetts General Hospital just an hour before he is to undergo experimental brain surgery. The police want Clevenger to determine if the death is murder or suicide. When Snow's lover, Grace Baxter, is found several days later with a slashed throat and wrists, the question surfaces again. Clevenger is a meticulous procedural investigator; he and partner North Anderson follow each and every lead to its logical, if sometimes tedious, conclusion. Clevenger's m tier is interviewing suspects, and there's a surplus of them as family, friends and enemies, any one of whom could have killed the eccentric Snow, parade through the pages. Clevenger's problematic personal life is again examined in detail: adopted 18-year-old Billy is still challenging Clevenger's shaky parenting skills, and Clevenger's love affair with FBI chief forensic psychiatrist Whitney McCormick is always on-again, off-again. Drugs and alcohol, two other demons from his past, wait in the wings. Clevenger agonizes over all of this while methodically solving the riddle of Snow's murder, playing each of the suspects against the other until he tricks a confession out of the guilty party. While the excitement is not exactly pulse pounding, Clevenger puts in some solid sleuthing, and the low body count is refreshing amid a sea of frenetic thrillers in which victims number in double digits. Agent, Beth Vesel. (July) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \ \ Library JournalWho would bother to murder a man about to have surgery that will save his life but destroy his memory? Only forensic psychiatrist and best-selling Ablow knows for sure, and his longstanding protagonist, Dr. Frank Clevenger, is about to find out. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \ \ \ \ Kirkus ReviewsA beautiful mind gets snuffed, and a forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger (Psychopath, 2003, etc.) sniffs something rotten in Denmark. Suicide's the initial call, but Dr. Clevenger's inner olfactometer is registering off the charts. John Snow, M.I.T. professor, aeronautical engineer, and universally acknowledged genius, has died of a gunshot wound to the chest. Boston cops say self-inflicted, but Clevenger says no way. Maybe it's just that the dead man wasn't in a suicidal kind of place; there was too much of a positive nature happening in his life. Or look at it this way: the usual suspect list contains an unusual number of sleuth-arousing possibilities. Collin Coroway, for instance, Snow's partner in Coroway Engineering (radar systems, sonar, missile technology), who becomes sole owner of a multimillion-dollar patent with Snow's demise. Consider Mrs. Snow, for years a patient Griselda of a wife, now thoroughly aware that she's become a woman blatantly scorned. Kyle and Lindsay Snow, son and daughter, can't be ruled out either, since each was tormented in different ways by the paternal neglect of icy Snow. And yet, the ironic fact is that Snow, in the four or five months preceding his death, had never been happier. In gloriously beautiful Grace Baxter-auburn hair, green eyes, "the body of a mermaid"-he had found his lovemap. "Lovemaps," Clevenger explains on several occasions to more or less interested parties, "are people meant for one another." But is there something a little ersatz about gorgeous Grace? Of course there is, and when Clevenger gathers his suspects together in one room (obeisance here to Dame Agatha), the reader discovers that ersatz has been running wild. The plotfails to cohere mostly because the characters fail to convince, as if the author couldn't quite tap into the artistry needed to breathe life into them. Ablow has done better work in this series. Agent: Beth Vesel/Beth Vesel Agency\ \
