SEPTEMBER 2015 - AudioFile
Kellerman introduces his listeners to Grace Blades, a psychologist who has some of the same sociopathic tendencies as her patients. This gripping, fast-moving story benefits from narrator Kathe Mazur’s spot-on delivery. When Blades meets Andrew Toner, and later learns of his murder, the story takes a dramatic turn as the investigation churns up memories that Blades had repressed for decades. Mazur captures Blades’s intelligence, intensity, and emotional highs and lows, varying her delivery with every passage. When needed, Mazur speaks in a tone of resigned understatement and then, seemingly without pause, turns it to raging intensity. D.J.S. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
From the Publisher
Praise for The Murderer’s Daughter
“[A] taut thriller . . . with the richness and resonance of literary fiction.”—Washington Independent Review of Books
“A stunning page-turner with a truly fascinating femme fatale at its fast-beating heart . . . packed with ingenious, razor-sharp plotting, mesmerizing mind games and nail-biting suspense.”—Yorkshire Evening Post
“A tight, fast-paced narrative [with] a brilliant, kick-ass heroine.”—Library Journal
“[Jonathan] Kellerman doesn’t let off-the-charts genius Grace become one-dimensional. Her backstory and challenge to fit in, even into adulthood, are an engaging part of this satisfying mystery, which, though billed as a stand-alone, could certainly make a spin-off series.”—Booklist
“An amazing tale of survival and adaptability in the face of neglect and murder.”—RT Book Reviews
Praise for Jonathan Kellerman
“Jonathan Kellerman has justly earned his reputation as a master of the psychological thriller.”—People
“Kellerman’s psychology skills and dark imagination are a potent literary mix.”—Los Angeles Times
“Kellerman doesn’t just write psychological thrillers—he owns the genre.”—Detroit Free Press
Library Journal
12/01/2014
Kellerman's latest is a stand-alone, but don't worry, Alex Delaware fans; he makes a cameo appearance. Grace Blades is a supremely cool and competent psychologist by day and a thriller seeker by night who relieves the stress of her job and some awful childhood memories by doing crazy things like picking up men in bars. It's bad news when a one-night stand appears at her office and subsequently ends up dead.
SEPTEMBER 2015 - AudioFile
Kellerman introduces his listeners to Grace Blades, a psychologist who has some of the same sociopathic tendencies as her patients. This gripping, fast-moving story benefits from narrator Kathe Mazur’s spot-on delivery. When Blades meets Andrew Toner, and later learns of his murder, the story takes a dramatic turn as the investigation churns up memories that Blades had repressed for decades. Mazur captures Blades’s intelligence, intensity, and emotional highs and lows, varying her delivery with every passage. When needed, Mazur speaks in a tone of resigned understatement and then, seemingly without pause, turns it to raging intensity. D.J.S. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine
