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Robert W. Walker Bitter Instinct
Jove 20000001 0515135690 / 9780515135695 MM Very Good
0515135690 0515135690 From Publishers Weekly FBI whiz medical examiner Dr. Jessica Coran returns to face a poet-cum-serial killer on the rampage through Philadelphia's bohemian subculture in this lackluster addition to Walker's macabre Instinct series (Killer Instinct, etc.). Jessica must rely not only on her forensic skills, but on interpretations of the Byronesque poetry that the killer leaves on his victims' backs he poisons them with toxic ink as he writes with an old-fashioned quill pen. Jessica's friend, FBI resident psychic Kim Desinor, contributes her psychometric impressions to the investigation, grasping at anything that might help Jessica understand or identify this elusive murderer. The situation is complicated not only by the shaky cooperation of the local police detective and the FBI agent in charge, Jessica's old flame James Parry, but also by the fad of body poetry among students and disaffected youths, making them even more reluctant than usual to aid law enforcement despite the murders. Jessica and her team are also hindered by the neuroses and infighting of the local university's literary faculty, whom they enlist for additional opinions on the poems and later consider as suspects. But the intriguing villain is wasted on this clumsy tale. Despite Walker's too frequent references to Jessica's past triumphs and stellar reputation, there is scant evidence here of investigative acumen or even common sense. Walker seeks unsuccessfully to deepen his heroine's character through tipsy love-life chats with Kim, and neglects Jessica's professional development. Worse than the cartoonish characters is the hokey literary exegesis the reader is subjected to as each new body is examined. (May)Forecast: Perhaps Jessica Coran devotees will overlook these lapses, but neither she nor the author is likely to win new fans with this halfhearted outing. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review Chilling and unflinching. -- Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Filled with surprises, clever twists, and wonderfully drawn characters. -- Dayton Beach News-Journal Horrific, genuinely spooky... Just when you think there's nothing new to be done with the serial-killer genre. -- Ed Gorman Masterful. -- Clive Cussler --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Robert W. Walker; Robert Wayne Walker Blind Instinct (Jessica Coran)
Jove 2001 0515131504 / 9780515131505 Mass Market Paperback Very Good
0515131504 0515131504 From Publishers Weekly With this seventh entry, Walker's series about FBI forensic pathologist Dr. Jessica Coran moves from original paperback to hardcover, presumably in a bid to absorb some of the Patricia Cornwell overflow. But turgid writing, heavy-handed atmospheric padding and a plot swollen with predictable turns would seem to seriously limit those aspirations. "Each time I look on such evil, twisted, unconscionable and despicable acts perpetrated on a human being, I begin to believe that nothing might ever rival what I must deal with before me," laments Inspector Richard Sharpe of New Scotland Yard in an early--and typical--burst of tortured rhetoric. "Yet... yet some fiend always finds a new twist, a new evil beyond anything you or I might ever have imagined possible, and this certainly proves the case here." Toward the end of the year 2000, a religious cult in London has begun to kill people by the ancient and extremely uncomfortable method of crucifixion--possibly as a prelude to Christ's Second Coming. Dr. Coran, though busy in Virginia on a man ripped apart by rabid dogs, flies off to London to help Sharpe with his even more interesting case--thus giving Walker the chance to trot out numerous clich?s about Anglo-American linguistic confusion. As the British body count rises to five, readers learn how to remove a human tongue and read a message branded on it, and meet an elderly priest/psychiatrist who talks like a cross between Yoda and the Exorcist. Coran, whose love life has taken a back seat to her work, manages to keep Inspector Sharpe's mind away from all the evil long enough to get him into the sack, before becoming a candidate for crucifixion herself. Anyone who stays around this long might begin to wish they'd waited for the paperback. Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist After almost 10 years in paperback, Walker's Jessica Coran series makes its hardcover debut. A particularly sadistic killer is crucifying his victims in London, and New Scotland Yard asks FBI forensic pathologist Coran, well known for her uncanny knack for catching serial killers, to lend them a hand. It's hard to breathe new life into the serial-killer story, but Walker keeps our minds off the tired premise by moving the tale along at a good clip and by constructing an airtight plot. The English setting also helps to make the story seem fresh. One quibble: the dialogue spoken by the British characters sounds like it came out of a guide to English idioms. That aside, though, this is a satisfying and disturbing thriller that should please fans of the series. David Pitt --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Robert W. Walker Cold Edge
Jove 2001 0515129704 / 9780515129700 Paperback Very Good
0515129704 0515129704 From Publishers Weekly Overworked police detective Lucas Stonecoat finds himself juggling two gruesome murder investigations, an old flame and a tempting new co-worker in Walker's latest mystery (following Blind Instinct). The Houston police department endures a lot of bad press when two women are found scalped, with their hands chopped off and Native American pictographs carved into their flesh. Lucas's prejudiced superiors, assuming that he is an expert on scalping because of his American Indian heritage, assign him to the case along with forensic psychiatrist Meredyth Sanger. The quarrelsome duo question a pompous and uncooperative psychiatrist who treats recently released felons and team up with two rather stereotypically portrayed detectives from a different precinct. In the midst of the investigation, Lucas is distracted by his grandfather's serious illness, the marital strife of his first love and another case involving a beheading. Walker's stilted dialogue and typecast supporting characters do nothing to enhance the romance brewing between Lucas and Meredyth, but diehard mystery readers who can stomach the meticulously depicted, grisly crime scenes will appreciate the narrative's momentum and procedural details. (Mar.) Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review Bone chilling. -- Publishers Weekly Immensely entertaining. -- Daytona Beach News-Journal One step beyond the cutting edge. -- Harriet Klausner Unflinching. -- Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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Robert W. Walker Extreme Instinct
Jove 1998 0515121959 / 9780515121957 Paperback Very Good
0515121959 0515121959 Product Description Jessica Coran faces a murderer paving a path of terror from Arizona to Montana. He ties his victims down, drowns their sins in gasoline, and cleanses them with flame. He is on a Satanic mission--and only by stepping into the fire can Jessica stop him.
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Robert W. Walker Pure Instinct
Jove 1995 0515117552 / 9780515117554 Paperback Very Good
0515117552 0515117552 Product Description Responding to a call by a New Orleans police commissioner to help in a serial murder investigation, Dr. Jessica Coran faces a second challenge when a murderer she helped put away escapes from prison and comes after her.
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