The Red Room
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Thought this would be an appropriate book for my first listed, as I picked it up last July in a hotel in Ile Rousse, Corsica, France while on my honeymoon. This large-format paperback is a U.K. release and still has a Waterstone's 2-pound discount sticker on the front. Read it on a Mediterranee ferry, then a bloody sweltering train through the Pyrenees, then finished it while waiting out a mild case of food poisoning in Sarlat. It certainly kept me occupied with a pace alternating between moderate and frenetic.
This synopsis borrowed from Harriet Klausner of Morrow, Georgia:
The Stretton Green Police ask Market Hill Hospital for the Criminally Insane and Welborn Clinic Dr. Katherine “Kit” Quinn to evaluate Michael Doll. Parents have complained about the seemingly disturbed young male hanging around elementary schools and since he has a bit of a record for exposure, the police want a professional psychiatric opinion. However, in front of DI Furth, Michael smashes a mug and uses a sharp piece of glass to carve up Kit’s face.
A few months later, Kit is out of the hospital having physically recovered except for a scar, but suffers nightmares from the assault. When DI Furth asks for her help with the murder investigation of a female teenager in which Michael is the prime suspect, a reluctant Kit agrees because she knows she must “humanize” her demon. Perhaps if Kit knew what is in store for her with this case, she would have said no and preferred to lived with her demonizing Doll.
THE RED ROOM is an exciting psychological thriller starring a great lead character psychologically suffering from the aftermath of the brutal attack by Michael. Kit knows she must confront the evil she has painted on the face of her attacker. Once she succeeds in de-demonizing her assailant, Kit still cannot let go of the case as her need to do the right thing propels her to continue to work on the investigation. It is her character that turns Nicci French’s tale into an absorbing chiller that never allows the audience to catch their breath.
This synopsis borrowed from Harriet Klausner of Morrow, Georgia:
The Stretton Green Police ask Market Hill Hospital for the Criminally Insane and Welborn Clinic Dr. Katherine “Kit” Quinn to evaluate Michael Doll. Parents have complained about the seemingly disturbed young male hanging around elementary schools and since he has a bit of a record for exposure, the police want a professional psychiatric opinion. However, in front of DI Furth, Michael smashes a mug and uses a sharp piece of glass to carve up Kit’s face.
A few months later, Kit is out of the hospital having physically recovered except for a scar, but suffers nightmares from the assault. When DI Furth asks for her help with the murder investigation of a female teenager in which Michael is the prime suspect, a reluctant Kit agrees because she knows she must “humanize” her demon. Perhaps if Kit knew what is in store for her with this case, she would have said no and preferred to lived with her demonizing Doll.
THE RED ROOM is an exciting psychological thriller starring a great lead character psychologically suffering from the aftermath of the brutal attack by Michael. Kit knows she must confront the evil she has painted on the face of her attacker. Once she succeeds in de-demonizing her assailant, Kit still cannot let go of the case as her need to do the right thing propels her to continue to work on the investigation. It is her character that turns Nicci French’s tale into an absorbing chiller that never allows the audience to catch their breath.
Journal Entry 2 by kevina at Lost Coast Coffee - Main Street at 10th in Fortuna, California USA on Sunday, May 19, 2002
Release planned for Monday, May 20, 2002 at Lost Coast Coffee - Main Street at 10th in Fortuna, California USA.
