The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker
Title: The Bride Collector
Author/website(s): Ted Dekker
432 pages
Publisher: Center Street
Publication date: April ’10
Genre: Suspense, faith-based
Review book or pleasure reading: Pleasure reading
New-to-me author: No
Would I recommend this book: DNF’d @ pg. 216; I’d recommend the author just not this particular book
Would I read more from this author: I’m willing to give him another try because I enjoyed his last two novels – The BoneMan’s Daughters and Burn
Journal notes: Pleasure reading – no review.
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 Wellness 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 picks up 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?
(The Bride Collector was provided to me by Miriam at Hachette Book Group. I was not paid and I’m giving away my copy next week as part of Mr. Dekker’s blog tour (4/6) 
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This sounds really good!!
Wow, you sure gave this one the old school try! I’m wondering how many pages it is now.
I kept going because I was hoping it would get better. I’m in agreement with those that gave it not so glowing reviews at Amazon.
Sorry this one didn’t do it for you.
Oh man, I loved this!!
I am so glad you posted about this book. I loved the Bone Collector and can’t wait to read the Bride Collector!
I’ve heard mixed reviews for this book.
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Might give it a try, thanks!