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The Girls He Adored

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The Girls He Adored

By: Jonathan Nasaw
Narrated by: Lee Sellars
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 In this electrifying and “superior thriller” (The Washington Post), a female psychiatrist is pitted against a brilliant serial killer with multiple personalities in an explosive and deadly battle of wills.

For ten years, FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender has been investigating the apparently random disappearances of a dozen women across the country. The only detail the cases have in common is the strawberry blond color of the victims’ hair, and the presence of a mystery man with whom they were last seen.

Then, in Monterey, California, a routine traffic stop erupts into a scene of horrific violence. The local police are stunned by a disemboweled strawberry blond victim and an ingenious killer with multiple alternating personalities. Pender is convinced he has found his man, but before he can prove it, the suspect stages a cunning jailbreak and abducts his court-appointed psychiatrist Irene Cogan.

In a house on a secluded ridge in Oregon, Irene must navigate through the minefield of her captor’s various egos—male and female, brilliant and naive, murderous and passive—all of whom are dominated by Max, a seductive killer who views her as both his prisoner and his salvation. Irene knows that to survive she must play along with Max’s game of sexual perversion. Only then will she be able to strip back the layers to discover a chilling story of a shattered young boy and all the girls he adored. Horror Mystery Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction
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what a great book this was the first one I had listen to can't wait to start the next one will certainly be following this author

brilliant

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Props to the narrator, he really was able to distinguish between all the characters male and female very well. It made the narrative and imagery more realistic especially as the narrative is told from multiple perspectives. The plot kept me on the edge of my seat and really transported me into the mind of a person with Dissociative Personality Disorder. Great read would recommend.

Great book

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Although the book was written quite some time ago and serial chiller writing has developed and become more explicit, this book still chills in all the right places.

Still chilling.

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Best book I hAve heard for a while. Such a shame this is the only one with audio. I loved it.

WhAt a cracker of a book

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I read this when I was 17, and it was terrifying and intriguing and disturbing.

This was an excellent narration, but some of the most disturbing scenes were removed--yet some other, equally disturbing scenes were left in, as well as some completely unnecessary, racist and transphobic stuff (if we were arbitrarily cutting stuff, we couldn't have cut the name of the character called "Big Nig" whose name is totally unimportant to the plot anyway..?).

Had this been an unabridged version, I'd have given it at least 4 stars in each category.

I Prefer Whole Novels

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