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Wood, Bari Doll's Eyes
New York William Morrow & Company 1993 0688124402 / 9780688124403 Y Hardcover N
From Publishers Weekly This latest from the author of Twins is a nerve-snapping, stomach-churning thriller. Wealthy Eve Klein has the unenviable ability to see the future when she touches people or even something associated with them. Although her unusual gift occasionally comes in handy, it has also driven away her husband, who doesn't want to live in a psychic fishbowl. Hoping for a reconciliation, she follows him to a lakeside bungalow in the Adirondacks where a small boy was tortured decades earlier. Now grown, the one-time victim tracks down women, mutilating and killing them. At first, all Eve can see of him is light brown hair and tassled loafers near a puddle of blood, but as a local cop insists that she use her power, the killer's dead, brown eyes begin to haunt her visions, and it becomes clear he's hunting for her, too. Despite a spate of foolish set-ups that a child of six would know enough to avoid, Wood's page-turner nurtures a creeping dread that blooms into fully realized fears. Toward the end, Eve becomes a horrific Scheherazade, spilling dark, pain-filled secrets the killer's psyche has locked away for good reason. Literary Guild alternate . Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From School Library Journal YA-Having clairvoyant powers is more of a curse than a blessing for Eve Tilden Dodd Klein, daughter of rich Connecticut parents and wife of Sam Klein. Her powers have alienated her from her husband, and, hoping for a reconciliation, she makes a trip to his cabin retreat in the Adirondacks. Upon her arrival, Eve has a vision of a murder so grotesque that she immediately calls the police. Her description is so accurate that she is momentarily considered to be a suspect. Charming lieutenant Dave Latovsky teams up with Eve to unravel the link between multiple related murders. Their intervention alerts the killer, who then stalks Eve as his next and final victim, a fact that she has psychically forseen. Doll's Eyes is not a book to be read while home alone or after dark. Wood tells a tale of horror so riveting that readers will be both repulsed and mesmerized. Any &doublequote;splatter punk&doublequote; fan will find a new favorite in this author. Katherine Fitch, Lake Braddock Secondary School, Burke, VA Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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