Review: Serial Killer on the Loose
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 16, 2012
The author opens the story with a haunting scene;In the next chapter In the author's words;The son, Mister Peter Armstrong found her that way on Saturday morning. Mister Armstrong said he had recently spoken to you about his mother going into Tadmore Psychiatric Hospital. Is that true, Doctor Blake?"Dr. Annie Blake is overwhelmed with the inspector's interrogation, pondering various theories about stalkers and serial killers, and is concern for her friend Jenny who is in danger.Meanwhile Sam is acting strange, waiting for Doctor Blake to leave her office to make phone call before accompanying her to visit the grieving son Peter Armstrong at his home. In their session Peter affected by the loss and new freedom of not taking care of his ailing mother anymore decides to sell the house and leave to start over in a new place.Sam, the administrative assistant to Dr. Blake seems over protective of Dr. Annie Blake or is it something more wicked?In the author's words'"You have to die, you betrayed me like the rest. I loved you so much but you never saw who I was. How could you listen to others and not me? I was the one who loved you most. Sam could never love you like I have"This is a paragraph in this author book about a serial killer on the loose and he or she is sneaking into houses and slicing their victims deep in the death spot and watches them gasps for their last breath.This is a murder mystery plot with a serial killer(s), a psychiatrist, Doctor Annie Blake, Sam an administrative assistant.  Who declares he was not attracted to his employer, yet seems to be her hero in all events.The shrink and her two best friends, Jenny a mom of twins and David her husband are also mixed up in this case and Barbara the psychiatric nurse then there is Dr. Frank Miller and the inspector all these characters are entangled into solving the case and find the missing link before another innocent victim was murdered.The suspense of the story is intense and the incidents are haunting. This reader was telling self don't forget about the patients in this puzzle, somehow they all are connected in this complex mystery. Pondering who was killing innocent victims and what was the connection?The plot becomes interesting as the mom of the twins, Jenny fears she is being stalked and her babies disappear and other exciting twists. Close acquaintances and strangers are turning up dead and there is the inspector trying to connect the missing link to it all. And the characters who do discover the truth who the killer is about to spill the beans to the law officers and they too end up in strange and deadly circumstances.In all Ms. Powell is able to write in various genres and pleased her reader  with her insight into human psychology at the same time entertained her readers.Highly recommended this and other works she has written and more coming in the near future.