Book Review - Missing Persons by Stephen White
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Stephen White has the next installment out in his Alan Gregory psychiatric thriller series... Missing Persons. While I like the story, it's probably not my favorite...
Gregory is trying to wind down for the Christmas holidays and plans on accompanying a fellow psychologist down to Vegas for a conference. But when they check in on the mental health worker who is going to cover their cases, they find her dead in a rather suspicious fashion. Add on to that a disappearance of a teenager on Christmas eve, reminiscent of the Jon Benet Ramsey case. And to make it even more confusing, the mother of the missing teen is psychotic and attends weddings uninvited. The question is, are all these things related? And is one of Gregory's patients the key as to how all these things tie together? It appears that the teen had a single session with the dead counselor. Is the teen dead for the same reason as the counselor? And when Gregory's partner goes to Vegas to track down the mother, she goes missing and nobody knows why or where she is.
There is a lot of mystery in this story, and I definitely wanted to get to the end to find out how it all wrapped up. But as I stated in the opening, this wasn't my favorite novel in the series. For whatever reason, Alan wants nothing to do with the missing teen story, but keeps getting drawn back into it. The Boulder cops are all convinced the teen is a runaway, but nobody seems to care about evidence to the contrary. Alan's partner disappearing is suspenseful, but I'm still not quite sure why it all happened. And towards the end, the interrelated threads just sort of morphed together and lost their individual uniqueness, and all was less than it appeared.
I'll still give the book above-average rankings for writing, but the story could have been tighter or less convoluted...
Stephen White has the next installment out in his Alan Gregory psychiatric thriller series... Missing Persons. While I like the story, it's probably not my favorite...
Gregory is trying to wind down for the Christmas holidays and plans on accompanying a fellow psychologist down to Vegas for a conference. But when they check in on the mental health worker who is going to cover their cases, they find her dead in a rather suspicious fashion. Add on to that a disappearance of a teenager on Christmas eve, reminiscent of the Jon Benet Ramsey case. And to make it even more confusing, the mother of the missing teen is psychotic and attends weddings uninvited. The question is, are all these things related? And is one of Gregory's patients the key as to how all these things tie together? It appears that the teen had a single session with the dead counselor. Is the teen dead for the same reason as the counselor? And when Gregory's partner goes to Vegas to track down the mother, she goes missing and nobody knows why or where she is.
There is a lot of mystery in this story, and I definitely wanted to get to the end to find out how it all wrapped up. But as I stated in the opening, this wasn't my favorite novel in the series. For whatever reason, Alan wants nothing to do with the missing teen story, but keeps getting drawn back into it. The Boulder cops are all convinced the teen is a runaway, but nobody seems to care about evidence to the contrary. Alan's partner disappearing is suspenseful, but I'm still not quite sure why it all happened. And towards the end, the interrelated threads just sort of morphed together and lost their individual uniqueness, and all was less than it appeared.
I'll still give the book above-average rankings for writing, but the story could have been tighter or less convoluted...
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