ISBN: 9781857027617 - help line (a portia mcteague novel of suspense) (1 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. 309 pages. spine cocked and worn, cover worn, text tanned, page edge foxedWhen Tamara Meredith, a well-known psychic healer in Charlotte, North Carolin a, is found stabbed to death and mutilated in her expensive uptown office, the w hole city is obsessed with talk of the grisly details--everyone, that is, except for forensic psychologist Portia McTeague.On leave from criminal work after tes tifying in a harrowing case of multiple murder, Portia is trying to concentrate on her private practice and volunteer counseling at the Help Line. But when the full-scale investigation team, at a loss for leads, makes a public appeal for he lp, Portia--oddly missing the very stresses from which she has purposely withdra wn--decides to volunteer her services and return to the media-filled, not to men tion dangerous, life of forensic investigation.When two more women in helping pr ofessions are murdered, Portia realizes that she's dealing with nothing less tha n a serial killer, someone with simultaneous needs to be caught and to outsmart the authorities. And as she tries to get inside his mind and determine his ident ity, she has no idea how close he may be or how cleverly he is manipulating her. In the end, before the killer is unmasked, Portia will be fighting for her life .In Help Line, the authors follow their first Portia McTeague novel, Over the Li ne, with another engrossing psychological puzzle, and dramatize the emotionally and intellectually intense interaction between psychologist and client. It's a r elationship that makes for gripping drama and page-turning suspense.…