In Palumbo’s riveting third Daniel Rinaldi mystery (after 2011’s Fever Dream), the Pittsburgh, Pa., doctor applies his therapeutic skills to a prickly former FBI special agent, Lyle Barnes, who suffers from night terrors after a career of tracking down serial killers. Adding to Barnes’s woes is a murderer out to get every person who helped put serial killer John Jessup behind bars, including Barnes, who goes into protective custody. Meanwhile, Rinaldi agrees to help Maggie Currim prove the innocence of her troubled adult son, Wes, who has confessed to the gruesome decapitation of a local businessman. Answers prove elusive as the murders begin to pile up, and Barnes escapes from FBI custody. Palumbo ratchets up the stakes in this grisly psychological thriller, but maintains the emotional complexity as Rinaldi weighs his loyalty to his patients against his faith in the FBI. (May)
"In Palumbo’s riveting third Daniel Rinaldi mystery (after 2011’s FEVER DREAM), answers prove elusive as the murders begin to pile up. Palumbo ratchets up the stakes in this psychological thriller, but maintains the emotional complexity… " — Publishers Weekly Kirkus Reviews Booklist Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Stephen Jay Schwartz, LA Times bestselling author of BOULEVARD and BEAT Timothy Hallinan, Edgar-nominated author of the Poke Rafferty and Junior Bender thrillers Thomas B. Sawyer, author of the bestselling thrillers THE SIXTEENTH MAN and NO PLACE TO RUN John Lescroart, NYT best-selling author of THE OPHELIA CUT Bobby Moresco, Oscar-winning writer/producer of CRASH and MILLION DOLLAR BABY Thomas Perry, Edgar-winning and NYT best-selling author Dick Lochte, LA Times best-selling author, SLEEPING DOGS and BLUES IN THE NIGHT
"A twisty plot, lots of action, and a stalwart shrink make Night Terrors solid crime fare."
Booklist - Thomas Gaughan
"Each time Dennis Palumbo returns to the world of psychotherapist Daniel Rinaldi, his narrative is surer and his understanding deeper. Don't miss Night Terrors . It's his best yet."
Edgar-winning and New York Times bestselling autho Thomas Perry
"Complications abound, but Rinaldi - and Mr. Palumbo - resolve them in ways both plausible and compelling."
"A brilliant, gripping emotional journey, full of the great characters and satisfying, unexpected turns we've come to expect from author/shrink Dennis Palumbo."
author of the bestselling thrillers The Sixteenth Thomas B. Sawyer
"Dennis Palumbo is a master of character, psychology and setting; and Night Terrors showcases these skills to great effect. Highly recommended!"
"In Night Terrors , Palumbo takes a brilliant premise and turns it into the kind of thriller most of us wish we could write. Thrills, surprises, and memorable characters. A terrific book."
Edgar-nominated author of the Poke Rafferty and Ju Timothy Hallinan
"From the discovery of a truncated corpse in a deserted West Virginia farmhouse to a breathless shootout in an abandoned Pennsylvania steel mill, the suspense never lets up."
LA Times bestselling author of Sleeping Dogs and B Dick Lochte
"Authentic and fast-paced, Night Terrors is a thrilling plunge into the mind of an obsessed killer. This is something you don't want to miss!"
LA Times bestselling author of Boulevard and Beat Stephen Jay Schwartz
"Another terrific ride from Dennis Palumbo's Daniel Rinaldi series. A page turner of the first order. I'm looking forward to the next one."
Oscar-winning writer/producer of Crash and Million Bobby Moresco
Snowstorms only make a nightmarish case worse for Dr. Rinaldi and the others trying to save a former FBI profiler whose life is in grave danger in this thrilling case, number three for the psychologist (after Fever Dream).
Pittsburgh clinical psychologist Daniel Rinaldi (Fever Dream, 2011, etc.) finds to his sorrow that even serial killers have fans. Now that Wesley Currim has confessed to killing wealthy Wheeling coal-mine executive Edward Meachem and led Chief Avery Block and Detective Sgt. Harve Randall to the headless corpse, you'd think the case would be closed. But Wes' mother, Maggie, swears he's innocent and provides him with a cast-iron alibi he's determined to repudiate. Do Block and Randall have the right man in custody? Dr. Rinaldi, who went along with them since Wes had refused to talk unless he was called in, can't say. And he has no time to yield to Maggie's pleas and break Wes' confession because he's been snatched off the street by FBI agent Neal Alcott and plunged into a different nightmare. Even though John Jessup, convicted of killing four prostitutes, has been beaten to death during a riot in an Ohio prison, the pen pal calling himself "Your Biggest Fan" is determined to avenge him by carrying on in his tradition. In short order, the prison guard who killed Jessup, the judge who sentenced him to four life sentences and the Cleveland ADA who prosecuted him are shot. Not surprisingly, Lyle Barnes, the retired FBI profiler who helped nail Jessup, is having night terrors, and Alcott wants Rinaldi to meet with him and calm him down. For his part, Rinaldi wants to be left alone to consummate his stymied romance with Detective Eleanor Lowrey of the Pittsburgh PD. How likely is that when the entire tri-state region is full of serial killers and killers-in-training? Some thrillers are beach reads. Palumbo's are strictly for late at night and for readers who have no pressing engagements early the next day.
