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HEAD GAMES
by Eileen Dreyer
St Martin's Press, March 2004
384 pages
$24.95
ISBN: 0312265786


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Molly Burke, full-time trauma nurse, part-time death investigator for St. Louis, lives as normal a life as can be expected from a Vietnam vet suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

She's twice married with no kids, and although disinherited from the family fortune, is allowed to live in the family mansion as caretaker for all the works of art housed therein. She particularly wants to save all the abused kids. She can't but she keeps trying and that adds to her stress.

She comes home one day to find some small works of art missing. It turns out her 16-year-old nephew, who doesn't want to wait for his inheritance, has decided that Aunt Molly doesn't deserve to live with those things when he wants the money.

Molly can't get through to her brother-in-law that his son is more important than his position (her parents had the same attitude which is why Molly was disinherited), so Molly agrees to take care of the boy until her brother and sister-in-law return from China and the present trade mission.

Someone leaves the gilded bone of a young woman in Molly's back yard where the dog finds it. She had gotten some threatening notes, but the police took no notice until now. Meanwhile, Molly tries to save yet another abused child at the ER. And she finds more notes and more body parts.

HEAD GAMES is a fast ride through a few head cases. Molly is one of them, but she is totally sane, when compared with the sleazy lawyer who sued her and now wants to be her best friend; Patrick, her nephew; and Sam, her 80-year-old neighbor. Then there is her friend, Sasha; Winnie the head ME; and the crew at the ER where she works. Can one of them be her stalker?

This is a tautly-written book which would be more frightening than it is except for Dreyer's indomitable sense of humor. It is unputdownable, scary and funny, all at the same time. It's another of those books you should not start late at night and expect to sleep well.

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, February 2004

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