Murder Suicide - Softcover

Ablow, Keith Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312994893 ISBN 13: 9780312994891

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2005

Synopsis

The only forensic psychiatrist writing suspense, Keith Ablow is being hailed as the heir to Thomas Harris.

Keith Ablow's novels delve deep into that dark and deadly place that Ablow, one of the nation's leading forensic psychiatrists, knows best: the psyche of a killer. Ablow has explored the catacombs of the criminal mind to find out what makes them tick, and he brings that expertise to his new novel, a chilling and emotionally compelling story of the lengths to which one man will go to leave his own life behind.

In Murder Suicide, Ablow and his alter-ego, Dr. Frank Clevenger, return to take on a murder case like no other. John Snow is a brilliant inventor who has made millions from his genius in aeronautics. He has everything a man could desire: wealth, family, even a beautiful mistress. But he also has a brain disease, a rare form of epilepsy, that threatens his most valuable possession -- his mind. Only one doctor may be able to cure it surgically, but at a terrible cost, one that Snow reveals to no one: Snow will have no memory whatsoever of his past - of its emotional entanglements or its secrets. He will be abandoning everyone he has ever known. But the night before he is scheduled to undergo the operation, he is found near the Massachusetts General Hospital, dead of a gunshot wound. Did he commit suicide, as the police suspect - or was he murdered?

Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Frank Clevenger delves into Snow's complex past and tortured relationships to unlock the identity of Snow's killer: Was it the wife who can never forgive what he's done to their child and their marriage, the son who loathes him, the beautiful mistress who loves him so deeply but can never have him, or the business partner intent on taking control of his inventions?

Only Frank Clevenger can unlock the door to Snow's startling past. And only Keith Ablow can take readers even further into the mind of a killer.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

HE POSSESSED WEALTH, FAME, GENIUS-
An hour before inventor John Snow is to undergo experimental brain surgery, he's discovered outside Massachusetts General Hospital, dead from a single bullet wound. Did he commit suicide as the police suspect-or was he murdered?

AND A DARK SECRET...
Forensic psychiatrist Frank Clevenger is about to find out. As he digs into Snow's complex past, he discovers a host of tortured relationships: The wife who can never forgive what Snow has done to their child and their marriage... The son who loathes him... The beautiful mistress who loves him deeply but can never have him... The business partner intent on taking control of his inventions...

THAT COULD DESTROY THE LIVES OF ALL HE KNEW...
Whatever secret Snow took to his grave, it is casting a shadow of suspicion over the people who said they loved him. Now Clevenger must venture into a dead man's dark past to unearth the truth-in an explosive mystery of passion and betrayal.

"Murder Suicide poses intriguing questions...[a] tightly plotted book."
-San Antonio Express News

"Elaborately plotted...offers the reader more substantial fare than the usual mystery lineup of corpses and cops."
-USA Today

About the Author:

KEITH ABLOW, like his protagonist, is a forensic psychiatrist who has testified in some of the nation's most highly publicized trials. He has written four other Dr. Frank Clevenger novels: Denial, Projection, Compulsion, and Psychopath. Ablow lives in Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0312994893
• ISBN 13: 9780312994891
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 366