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Overview
Just before the Fourth of July weekend, Theresa Fortunato is awakened by powerful psychic messages from an abducted child. Theresa contacts the police, but none of their missing child reports match Theresa's description. Theresa's psychic impressions are validated a few days later when she is contacted by Ellen Carlin, a distraught mother whose ten-year-old daughter Tory has been kidnapped from a Los Angeles hospital. During their initial meeting, Theresa learns from Ellen that Tory appears to be suffering from an immune disorder that requires close medical attention. To make matters worse, Theresa is disturbed by a powerful intuition that Ellen has only three days to live. Theresa's investigations soon reveal that Ellen and her ex-husband, Joe, are caught up in a vicious custody battle and each seems more interested in implicating the other in the abduction than in helping Theresa get to the truth and find Tory. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Jardine has unearthed evidence that links a murdered antiques dealer to the missing girl, even though they appear never to have met. Drawing on Theresa's psychic ability and powerfully feminine forms of knowledge as well as Jardine's more traditional investigative work, they collaborate to unravel the two tangled cases. And as Theresa receives increasingly strong psychic images, she and Jardine intensify their search, racing the clock to find the murderer, the abductor, and the very seriously ill little girl, and to save her mother from the terrible fate Theresa has foreseen.Editorials
Stuart Miller
Using psychics in murder investigations still smacks of supermarket tabloids and California flakiness, but this mystery, set in Los Angeles and starring psychic Theresa Fortunato, is absorbing, serious, and should be quite credible to all but the most hardened skeptics. As in her last adventure, "Shattered Moon" (1986), Theresa teams up with LAPD Lieutenant Oliver Jardine, this time to investigate the kidnapping of a 10-year-old girl from a hospital. Not only is Theresa receiving psychic impressions of the abducted girl, she also senses that the girl's mother may be in danger. Complicating matters further is Theresa's strong physical attraction to the girl's divorced father, the loser in a bitter custody fight. Green's plot devices are excellent, and her characters are extremely appealing. Her depiction of how a psychic "works" is fascinating, particularly when she describes Jardine's ambivalent feelings about the phenomenon. A compelling story, told with intelligence and skill.Book Details
Published
September 1, 1993
Publisher
New York : HarperCollins, c1993.
Pages
288
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780060179847