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George D. Shuman
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18 Seconds: A Novel |
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English |
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Mass Market Paperback |
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384 |
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2007-03-27 |
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0743277171 |
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Pocket Star |
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0.45 pounds |
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1.0 x 4.19 x 6.75 inches |
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In his gripping debut, George D. Shuman crafts a pulse-pounding, tension-filled thriller about two brave women -- one with uncanny psychic abilities -- who unite to catch a murderous madman...before he finds them first.
Thirty years after a deadly traffic accident landed Earl Sykes in prison, he is back on the streets of Wildwood, New Jersey -- and back for revenge. He is also feeding his perverse appetite for abducting young female victims -- the same crimes he committed years ago for which he was never caught.
Police lieutenant Kelly O'Shaughnessy is bewildered by the disappearance of several young women from the boardwalk -- crimes horrifyingly reminiscent of unsolved cases from the seventies. Reluctant to ask for help but desperate to stem the bloodshed, Kelly enlists investigative consultant Sherry Moore. Blind and beautiful, Sherry has the extraordinary ability to "see" the deceased's last eighteen seconds of memory by touching the corpse. As they join forces to discover the killer's identity, the women unwittingly become the hunted -- each step drawing them closer to the deadly clutches of a homicidal monster.
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kislany (Cyprus) (2007/06/09):
Sherry Moore is blind, beautiful and has a gift. She can see the deceased's last 18 seconds by touching their hand. And she uses this gift to help police solve various crimes...Very good debut novel by George Shuman. Several stories are intertwined here, nicely coming together at the end. The characters are all well out fleshed, not two dimensional as one sees in a lot of mysteries. You can really feel for Sherry, the blind woman who has ability to see the last 18 seconds of a person by holding their hand once they are dead. She has this gift, is famous, helping the police solve several cased, but she has her own demons to live with.
You can also not stop liking detective Kelly O'Shaughnessy, who tries to solve the cases of the missing women. And you also get glimpses of the killer's mind, understand what makes him tick, and not like it or him at all. I found the book to be a roller-coaster and read it during the weekend. It was one of those books that you don't want to put down, but if you have to, you can't wait to pick up again to see what's going to happen next.
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