One of the more engrossing books in the Alan Gregory canon.In #18, Psychologist Alan, ADA wife Lauren, precocious daughter Grace, and adopted son Jason have new neighbors. The former home of son Jason (whose father Peter was murdered in #4 and Mother Adrienne was blown up by terrorists in #16) ha...
THE LAST LIE by Stephen White. I’m a big fan of Stephen White’s stories, especially if the psychologist Alan Gregory is at the center of the plot. Since the author is a clinical psychologist, it is no surprise that this character rings true.The story takes place in Boulder, Colorado, and it dance...
I enjoy Stephen White's writing not only for his engrossing and well-crafted plots, but also for his command and use of the English language. He is especially skilled at devising creative imagery that pinpoints his ideas succinctly. A few of my favorites: "If Slocum had wanted to transport the ...
I really enjoy Stephen White's psychological thrillers--though this particular book wasn't so much a thriller as some of his others have been. He also usually starts out slow, building the plot, and then has a fast, startling ending, but not so much this time. It seemed that White was trying out ...
Okay this one follows The Program, and Alan has a six month old baby. Just in case you want to do a better job than I did of working out what order to read them in!This one has us pulled in by an unlikeable patient who we can still identify with—is her son planning the next Columbine or equivalen...
I had no idea that this book was a series, and if you were looking for a quick thriller to read, you probably wouldn't notice that this is the eleventh book featuring Dr. Alan Gregory, a psychologist. (Signs of previous Dr. Alan Gregory adventures include the dawn of his professional burnout and ...
New York Times bestselling author Stephen White brings back his popular character, psychologist Alan Gregory, to take on the sociopathic killer from White’s first novel—who, many years later, has walked away from a mental hospital, hungry for revenge. It has been years since the mayhem was unlea...
As I read this I told friends: I’ve been reading a really great book and as I was getting deeper and deeper all I could concentrate on was the hope that writer—and this was my first time reading him—didn’t fuck up the ending after doing such a great job on the premise and build up of the story. ...
Keep in mind that I heard it from Andrea, of course, and not from Dave. JACK SAID, “AFTER the uniforms stopped him and detained him, Mickey and I interviewed Khalid together. We did the interview at the station, and right aw...
My breath caught in my throat. I turned my head so I could check the time on the microwave. The carpool would drop off the kids in fifteen or twenty minutes. I didn't have much time to learn more about the other guy that Nicole had spotted on the lane Friday night. "Can I ...
he explained. “In case you are wondering.” I waited for him to go on. He seemed embarrassed by his admission and was content to allow the word to hang in the air for as long as possible, as though it were a cloud that would dissipate with the wind. ...
But by the time that Kelda received the first report with the analyses of the weapon that she’d sent to the FBI laboratory in D.C., the daytime temperature was still hovering in the sixties, the glory of the annual metamorphosis of the aspen trees from emerald to gold in t...