White Keeps Getting Better and Better...

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	• Blinded (Dr. Alan Gregory Novels) Stephen White Dell, 2005 - 512 pages average customer review:based on 45 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

White Keeps Getting Better and Better...

From the beginning, with his novel Privileged Information, I was hooked on the series. Each book has improved and the series shows no signs of growing stale. Perhaps it is the cast of recurring characters and White's ability to let his main character, Alan Gregory, not only share the spotlight with them, but from time to time to give it to them completely. In Blinded, for the first time half of the story is told from Sam Purdy's point of view. We see him as his own person, with his own issues, both personal and medical. I loved it. Some series stagnate when the main couple has children. So far, this one has not.

I started reading the next one, Missing Persons, as soon as I finished Blinded.

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Workmanlike thriller

This is an entry in the long running series revolving around Boulder,Colorado based psychiatrist Alan Gregory .A former patient ,the voluptuous Gibbs Storey re-enters his life with a stunning revelation -she believes her husband ,Sterling ,is a serial killer and names a British cabin crew member Louise as one if his victims.Gregory is hamstrung by laws of client confidentiality but is permitted to share her revelation with both local and California Police officials (that being her state of residence).When Sterling goes missing the leg work involved in tracing him falls on Colorado cop and old friend Sam Purdy,who has recently sustained suffered a heart attack ,and Purdy is assisted by a woman California cop,the hard driven Carmen Reynoso .Their travels take them across America ,mostly to the South

Meanwhile Gregory has other issues -his wife's MS is worse and somebody is bugging his practice and leaking client information to the media.

The outcome is a pretty predictable and at well nigh 500 paperback pages the book is too long for its own good .however the characterization is sharp and effective ,Sam especially being a warm and welcome presence .His encounters with a Southern pastor and two hospitable elderly sisters portray with warmth and affection the type odf people often eother patronised or marginalised in American fiction

Its not bad -just solid and average

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1st Stephen White/Alan Gregory Read

A bit disappointing. Not a difficult plot but so many discursions. Every remark or observation seems to require a psychological analysys. Many, I felt, rather sophomoric reflections by both Sam and Alan when meeting various ladies along the way. Laurens MS, Sam's heart attack, his marital problems, etc., etc.. Give me a break!
Not bad but could have been a lot neater. Will try again later.

OKAY (ish)

This mystery was, for me, just - okay.

Psychologist Alan Gregory has to have the most interesting, bizarre, and dangerous clients that any health professional has ever had in one lifetime. This time his most troubling patient is a stunningly beautiful women who tells Dr. Gregory that she knows that her husband has murdered one of their friends, and she is pretty sure that he has murdered other women as well. And of course, she needs Dr. Gregory's help.

The subplots: Alan's friend Sam has a heart attack and his marriage is breaking apart. His wife is home sick with MS for most of the book. His daughter is a typical toddler.

Many other reviewers have already mentioned that the conclusion was easily predictable and I'd have to agree.

Not a bad book, but not a real fun one either.

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In his latest masterwork of psychological suspense, the New York Times bestselling author of The Program, Warning Signs, and The Best Revenge peers into a troubled marriage to craft a shattering tale of secrecy, eroticism, betrayal, and murder.

Psychologist Alan Gregory is juggling his responsibilities as a father, a husband, and doctor when a beautiful woman walks into his office with an astounding admission. Gibbs Storey believes that her husband may have murdered a woman. Then, Gibbs stuns Alan again with another revelation: She thinks there are other victims?and her husband is not finished killing yet.

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