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Summary: a good old-fashioned mystery with a twist
Review: Veronica Vail, dynamic, tall & beautiful, with the perfect marriage, job & home is found beaten to death in her sitting room. Why is a huge, valuable portrait of the dead woman gone from the wall?When Lt. John Franklin of the NYPD, calls Dr. Mary Wells for insights into her patient's lifestyle, this long time divorcee & psychoanalyst is drawn into a tragedy with secrets & echoes from the past. Dr. Wells is both fascinated to be invited to assist in the investigation, & remorseful that she hadn't seen, in all the years of Veronica's therapy, this possible outcome -- that her patient would be murdered. THE DEADLY JIGSAW PUZZLE is a mystery with many layers as well as an unfolding love story. Dr. Bond, herself a New York psychoanalyst for more than 30 years, has written an elegant & satisfying story of the power that unresolved childhood trauma have on the present. In this modern world of police dramas solved by angst-driven investigators with desolate private lives, themselves on the verge of disaster, THE DEADLY JIGSAW PUZZLE is a pleasing change. In her two heroes, Dr. Wells & Lt. Franklin, Dr. Bond has the makings of a fine series. Recommended by Rebeccasreads as a thoughtful mystery.
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Summary: a good old-fashioned mystery with a twist
Review: Veronica Vail, dynamic, tall & beautiful, with the perfect marriage, job & home is found beaten to death in her sitting room. Why is a huge, valuable portrait of the dead woman gone from the wall? When Lt. John Franklin of the NYPD, calls Dr. Mary Wells for insights into her patient's lifestyle, this long time divorcee & psychoanalyst is drawn into a tragedy with secrets & echoes from the past. Dr. Wells is both fascinated to be invited to assist in the investigation, & remorseful that she hadn't seen, in all the years of Veronica's therapy, this possible outcome -- that her patient would be murdered. THE DEADLY JIGSAW PUZZLE is a mystery with many layers as well as an unfolding love story. Dr. Bond, herself a New York psychoanalyst for more than 30 years, has written an elegant & satisfying story of the power that unresolved childhood trauma have on the present. In this modern world of police dramas solved by angst-driven investigators with desolate private lives, themselves on the verge of disaster, THE DEADLY JIGSAW PUZZLE is a pleasing change. In her two heroes, Dr. Wells & Lt. Franklin, Dr. Bond has the makings of a fine series. Recommended by Rebeccasreads as a thoughtful mystery.
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