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Night Terrors by Dennis Palumbo. A Daniel Rinaldi Mystery.
Review summary: Overall, this is a strong and thoughtfully crafted crime novel, and while the two principal plotlines are well structured, what is arguably the primary of the two — the one involving the serial killer — is also the weaker and not nearly as cleverly devised as the other. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Night Terrors
Dennis Palumbo
A Daniel Rinaldi Mystery
Poisoned Pen Press (May 2013)
Publisher synopsis: After twenty years spent inside the heads of the nation's worst serial killers, retired FBI profiler Lyle Barnes is falling apart mentally. Psychologist and trauma expert Daniel Rinaldi thinks he can help Barnes through his terrible night visions. Barnes, however, is also the target of an unknown assassin whose mounting list of victims paralyzes the city and lands Lyle in protective custody. When Barnes flies the coop, he draws Daniel and the joint FBI-Pittsburgh PD Task Force into a desperate manhunt.
Meanwhile, a second case competes for Daniel's attention. The mother of a youthful confessed killer awaiting trial is convinced that her son is innocent and appeals to Daniel for help. Against his better judgment, he becomes involved, and soon suspects that much about the case is not as it appears.
Daniel is faced with a number of questions. Can he and the law officials find the missing Barnes before the killer does? Will the danger closing in around him begin to affect his personal life, such as his deepening relationship with Detective Eleanor Lowrey? And are these two seemingly unconnected cases somehow linked?
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