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Hold Back The Dark

Hold Back The Dark, March 2009
by Eileen Carr

Pocket
Featuring: Aimee Gannon; Josh Wolf
352 pages
ISBN: 1416587942
EAN: 9781416587941
Mass Market Paperback
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"A chilling and intense suspense about the realities of a pedophile and the lasting results."

Fresh Fiction Review

Hold Back The Dark
Eileen Carr

Reviewed by Kay Quintin
Posted February 6, 2009

Romance Suspense

Dr. Aimee Gannon, a shrink, is woken from sleep with a call from Detective Josh Wolf of the Sacramento Police Department. Aimee arrives at Mercy General to find her patient, teenager Taylor Dawkin, in a catatonic state, covered with cuts and blood. Taylor found her parents, Stacey and Orrin Dawkin, brutally murdered by a killer who gets a sexual, super high from a slow kill. As Aimee and the tall, dark detective work together to unscramble Taylor's mysterious drawings, an unexpected magnetism occurs between them. Aimee is treating Taylor for an unknown demon from her past, probably a pedophile, which causes Taylor to mutilation of her body with knife cuts. Having been assaulted with near rape herself by one of her previous patients, Aimee is terrified of the darkness surrounding her and feels herself being stalked. Aimee's insecurity soon finds her hot and sweaty and in bed with Josh, having mind-numbing sex. Josh investigates Carl Walter, Orrin's partner, and his son, Sean. It soon becomes evident to Aimee that they are somehow involved in Taylor's condition. After someone attempts to strangle Aimee in her building garage, things are brought to a violent conclusion. Eileen Carr has created a most chilling and intense suspense of the realities of a pedophile and the lasting results. She has tastefully written an extremely vital and exciting novel that keeps the reader turning the pages as fast as they can. She has also given a lot of valuable information into the minds of the pedophile. Don't miss this one!!

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SUMMARY

IN EILEEN CARR'S HEART-POUNDING ROMANTIC SUSPENSE DEBUT, AN UNSPEAKABLE CRIME WITH A MYSTERIOUS TWIST IS ONLY THE BEGINNING....

SHE' S NO STRANGER TO THE DARKEST PLACES IN THE HUMAN MIND...

Devoted to her troubled clients, clinical psychologist Aimee Gannon never thought she'd be entangled in a murder investigation. But a middle-of-the-night phone call from the Sacramento PD delivers a shock: Aimee's rebellious seventeen-year-old patient Taylor Dawkin could be a suspect in the gruesome murder of her own parents. Traumatized by the events of that fatal night, Taylor is left catatonic...and Aimee is desperate to reach beyond her silence to uncover the truth.

BUT HE' S SEEN THE EVIDENCE FIRSTHAND...

Detective Josh Wolf needs Aimee's help to decipher the clues behind a pattern of rectangles and circles that Taylor drew in blood at the crime scene. Unfortunately, he can't keep his mind off the beautiful psychologist -- those long legs, that irritating stubborn streak. But he can't afford a moment's distraction: After Aimee is attacked, she and Josh must race to uncover Taylor's terrifying secret...before the deadly shadows of the past strike again.


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Re: A chilling and intense suspense about the realities of a pedophile and the lasting results.

Thanks for the entry
(Yvonne Butler 6:21pm August 12, 2009)

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