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Did she just interview the man who's going to kill her? Diane Hanson knew heart-stopping terror when she witnessed the accident that killed her son and destroyed her marriage. But now she's putting her life back together with a terrific newspaper job, an exciting new man and the friendship of her teenage “little sister,” Lara Ryan. Writing a story on a pop psychic, Eduardo Ranier, who once led police to the body of a murdered teen, Diane soon finds that her investigation takes on chilling implications. A second teenage girl is murdered and ”so says the psychic” another is yet to come. When Lara disappears, Diane is cast into a nerve-shattering nightmare of deceit and stark terror.
A journalist investigating a psychic's claims finds herself at the center of a lethal game when her young friend vanishes. Diane Hanson, attempting to rebuild her life after personal tragedy, takes on an assignment profiling Eduardo Ranier, a psychic who has previously assisted law enforcement. As she digs deeper into his past and his predictions, she realizes the psychic's claims are linked to a series of murders. When Lara Ryan, a teenager Diane mentors, goes missing, Diane must navigate a web of manipulation and danger to uncover the truth before another life is taken.
This work fits within the tradition of late-twentieth-century suspense novels that utilize the trope of the unreliable or enigmatic psychic to drive a murder mystery. The narrative relies on the protagonist's professional curiosity to bridge the gap between a standard human-interest story and a high-stakes criminal investigation. Readers likely find the pacing consistent with the thriller genre of the era, emphasizing the vulnerability of the characters when confronted with an unknown threat. The story functions as a character study of a woman attempting to regain control of her life while being pulled into a situation that mirrors her past trauma.
Page Count:
304
Publication Date:
1989-10-12
Publisher:
Fontana Press
ISBN-10:
0006177336
ISBN-13:
9780006177333
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