Book Review - Tortured Memory - Lawrence W Gold

I truly love medical Mystery/Psychological Thrillers and Lawrence W Gold is a master at writing them. It helps that he is a retired physician! When he wrote to me to tell me that Tortured Memory would be free on Amazon from 2/7 - 2/9 I jumped on it--I even told all of you about it on my FaceBook page, Google+ and Twitter--I hope some of you took advantage-(no, I am not an affiliate of Amazon)-this is one really good book! If you didn't and you truly love medical Mystery/Psychological Thrillers I suggest you start reading all the books this author has written!

Abbie Adler, who was sexually abused by her father as a young girl, managed to overcome and become a general, child, and adolescent psychiatrist to treat sexually abused girls. But did she really? She emphasizes with her patients and does not or can not always keep a mental distance. She has her own therapist/friend/mentor who she still sees when things get really to rough for her mind to handle. She suddenly finds herself with a couple of patients who she probably never should have taken on! One of them the son of her own therapist.

Abbie's husband, a pediatrician, has his doubts about her therapist but Abbie insists on staying with him-she trusts him. Then the unthinkable happens-Abbie is somehow found in the woods in her car-catatonic. She is finally brought out of this state but has no recollection of what happened. When her memory finally returns in full--well--I will let you read that for yourself!! Another 5 star in my opinion and I can't wait to read some more of this author's work!


About the Book: (from Amazon)

Tortured Memory
A Mystery/Psychological Thriller
(A Brier Hospital Novel)
By
Lawrence W. Gold, M.D.

Dr. Abbie Adler had chosen general, child, and adolescent psychiatrist to treat sexually abused girls. As a victim of such abuse herself, Abbie’s insights make her an effective therapist. In addition, her practice includes adult patients and provides group and individual therapy for a broad range of psychiatric problems including depression, personality disorders, psychopathy, and malignant narcissism.
On a December evening, the Berkeley Police find Abbie sitting in her car at Inspiration Point overlooking the East Bay of San Francisco. She’s bruised and catatonic. They transport her to Brier Hospital where they admit her to the psychiatric ward. The nature of her condition, and its cause, remain a mystery. After standard treatments fail, her psychiatrist recommends electroshock therapy. Finally, she awakens but remembers nothing of the month preceding. In addition, she discovers significant memory gaps from the past few years.
Abbie had been treating two victims of the Chabot rapist who targeted girls and as she’s making progress in their care, unbelievably, someone abducts and strangles them. Their deaths devastate Abbie.
During Abbie’s difficult recovery, memories of past events gradually return. They are fragmentary and torture her with memory flashes and nightmares. Gradually, she begins to suspect that one of her adult patients may be the strangler. When the police find Abbie’s prime suspect brutally murdered, both she and the police are befuddled. Abbie struggles to discover the identity of the strangler and those who may be abetting his actions. Will he/they get away with it?

Read a couple of chapters here

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About the Author: (from Amazon)

I was born in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, moved to Queens, and then, as New Yorkers say, we ascended to the Island.
After graduating from Valley Stream Central High School, I went to Adelphi, a college then, a university now, and then to medical school in Chicago.
The war in Vietnam interrupted my postgraduate training with a year in Colorado Springs and another as a Battalion Surgeon in Vietnam. I spent seven months in the Central Highlands with the 4th Infantry and five months in an evacuation hospital in Long Binh outside Saigon where I ran the emergency room.
I returned intact in 1968 to complete my training in internal medicine and diseases of the kidney, nephrology.
I worked for twenty-three years in Berkeley, California in a hospital-based practice caring for patients with complicated illnesses often in ICU and served as Chief of Medicine.
My wife Dorlis and I retired in October 1995 and sailed under the Golden Gate Bridge for a life at sea in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
Four years later, exhausted from repairing everything on board, (often many times) we sold the sailboat and within a year took the lazy man's out; we bought a Nordic Tug, a trawler. We motored around Florida, the Bahamas, the entire East Coast and completed two 'Circle trips' to Canada and back, eight months, the first time, five months, the second.
I wrote professionally as a physician to inform but rarely to entertain, at least not on purpose.
First, Do No Harm was published in April 2007. No Cure for Murder was released in August 2011. For the Love of God was published in January 2012 and The Sixth Sense in July 2012.
In the last two years, I've written three screenplays based on my novels and hope to see one or more produced for the screen. I submitted my screenplay, Rage to the 80th Annual Writer's Digest contest and won honorable mention (57 out of 11,000).
We live in beautiful Grass Valley with 13 year old Mike, a terrier mix and Bennie, a 7 year old purebred though enormous Yorkie.

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