Mailbox Monday ~ December 14th
Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week (checked out library books don’t count, eBooks & audio books do). Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.
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The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker (Hachette)
FBI Special Agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he’s picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellbeing and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals whose are extraordinarily gifted.It’s there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person’s life when she touches the dead body.In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise’s help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most ‘sane people’ sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls…or inside.As the Bride Collector increases the pace and volume of his gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector’s next target. The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven women. Can Paradise help before it’s too late?
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Even the title of that book is creepy – hope you enjoy it.
I am a Ted Dekker fan. this one sounds good, I haven’t seen it before. I’ll be anxious to see if you like it. The one I want right now is The Boneman’s Daughters.
The BoneMan Daughterswas my first exposure to Ted Dekker and I was totally hooked after reading it. I’m really looking forward to cracking open The Bride Collector. It was all I could to put on the shelf. Now I sit and stare at it. I hear it calling to me.
I read Boneman’s Daughters for Hachette and found it mighty creepy. I’d read another by him but if it were equally as creepy then I’d break up with Ted Dekker. I’m participating in MM for the first time!
Welcome to MM! For me breaking up with Ted Dekker would be a mighty hard thing to do. He went straight to my auto-buy/fav author list after reading The BoneMan’s Daughters.
Creepy! Looking forward to see how you liked it!
I love Ted Dekker – You lucky duck!
The Bride Collector looks kind of spooky. My kind of book!
Ted Decker is the man, you are one lucky lady!
Dang that sounds creepy!!!
Another creepy sounding book from Dekker!! Alright!!
sounds like an interesting book…happy reading.
Ooooooo, The Bride Collector looks good. I’m reading his The Boneman’s Daughters right now and it’s great!
Oooh, mysterious and creepy! BTW, love your new dark and mysterious header!
I have never read Ted Dekker before! Looks like a good one!
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Well today I remembered to link and to comment! I only have one Ted Dekker book which I got on Audible – Adam. I have not been able to get into that one so I think maybe it wasn’t the right choice of his books!
This is the first time I’ve heard of this book. It sounds so good and very creepy! The perfect combination! Enjoy and I look forward to your review.
I used to be able to read thrillers like this, Marcia, but I’ve gotten more timid! I hope you enjoy it – my week added 4 very different books to my bookshelves.
I still haven’t read the Boneman’s Daughter, should rectify that so I can try this one LOL. It sounds really good!
Ted Dekker…awesome! I got a scary one too this week, by another master of the creepy, John Saul.