Jo Beckett #2
Dutton Adult
June 2009
On Sale: June 11, 2009
Featuring: Jo Beckett
368 pages ISBN: 0525950753 EAN: 9780525950752 Hardcover Add to Wish List
The second pulse-pounding thriller in Meg Gardinerβs Jo Beckett series, whose βthrilling,β βcrackerjack,β βadrenaline-filledβ debut was an Independent Mystery Booksellers Association bestseller.
Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckettβs specialty is the psychological autopsyβ an investigation into a personβs life to determine whether a death was natural, accidental, suicide, or homicide. She calls herself a deadshrinker instead of a head-shrinker: The silence of her βpatientsβ is a key part of the jobβs attraction. When Jo is asked to do a psychological autopsy on a living personβone with a suspect memory who canβt be trusted to participate in his own medical careβshe knows all her skills will be put to the test.
Jo is called to the scene of an aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is behaving erratically. She figures out that heβs got anterograde amnesia, and canβt form new memories.
Jo finds herself racing to save a patient who can walk and talk and yet canβt help Jo figure out just what happened to him. For every cryptic clue he is able to drag up from his memory, Jo has to sift through a dozen nonsensical statements. Suddenly a string of clues arises, something to do with a superdeadly biological agent code-named βSlick,β a missing wife and son, and a secret partnership gone horribly wrong. Jo realizes her patientβs addled mind may hold the key to preventing something terrible from happening in her beloved San Francisco. In order to prevent it, she will have to get deeper into the life of a patient than she ever has before, hoping the truth emerges from the fog of his mind in time to save her cityβand herself.
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