| Secrets are stolen from a well secured psychotherapy office. A patient, front-runner candidate for D.A. disappears after her prostitution fantasy is exposed. The body of a drowned woman fitting her description is discovered. Another patient is blackmailed for infidelity. With a little help from a private detective, and her own saavy, the psychologist finds her missing patient- kidnapped to keep her out of the race. She solves the murder of the drowned woman, and the identity of the blackmailer. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear) How difficult to spot villain? - Very difficult--no foreshadowing/clues What % of story relates directly to the mystery, not the subplot? - 80% Special suspect? - chronically deranged person Misc. Murder Plotlets - character killed during/after sexing Kind of investigator Any non-mystery subplot? descript. of violence and chases - 0 % Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 % How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10 % Crime Thriller Yes Murder Mystery (killer unknown) Yes Main Character Gender - Female Profession/status: Age: - 40's-50's Ethnicity/Race Main Adversary Identity: - Female Age: - 20's-30's Profession/status: Eccentric: Yes How sensitive is this character? Intelligence - Average intelligence Setting United States Yes Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment Explicit sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - vague references Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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