Book description
Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett's speciality is the psychological
autopsy - an investigation into a person's life to determine whether a
death was natural, accidental, suicide, or homicide. When Jo is asked to
do a psychological autopsy on a living person - one with a suspect
memory who can't be trusted to participate in his own medical care - she
knows all her skills will be put to the test. Jo is called to the scene
of an aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is
behaving erratically. She figures out that Ian Kanan has got anterograde
amnesia, and can't form new memories. Jo finds herself racing to save a
patient who can walk and talk and yet can't help Jo figure out just what
happened to him. Suddenly a string of clues arises, something to do with
a super deadly biological agent code-named "Slick", a
kidnapping, and a secret partnership gone horribly wrong. Jo realises
Kanan's addled mind may hold the key to preventing something terrible
from happening in her beloved San Francisco. With time running out, she
will have to get deeper into the life of a patient than she ever has
before, hoping the truth emerges from the fog of his mind in time to
save her city - and herself. 'The next suspense superstar.' STEPHEN KING
'Meg Gardiner is an astonishing writer.' TESS GERRITSEN
'Riveting…a book you just can't put down…The Memory Collector is a
first-class thriller with non-stop action.' CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
'Meg Gardiner captivates…an exceptional follow up to her first Beckett
novel, The Dirty Secrets Club.' CAROLYN LESSARD, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Praise for THE DIRTY SECRETS CLUB:
'Author Gardiner makes every one of her characters leap alive off the
page, and I personally am in love with the most compelling of them all,
Jo Beckett.' JEFFERY DEAVER
'The story just keeps coming. She is up there with Michael Connelly and
Lee Child.' STEPHEN KING
'Hitchcockian scenes of suspense will rock even the most jaded thriller
reader.' MIAMI HERALD Meg Gardiner is originally from Southern
California, where she practiced law and taught at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of five Evan Delaney novels
as well as the first Jo Beckett thriller, The Dirty Secrets Club,
described by Jeffery Deaver as “A winner all the way.” She lives with
her family near London.
