Mark P. Dunn, A Girl in Mind

A Girl in Mind

Mark P. Dunn

Five Star, May 2006, $25.95

ISBN: 1594144141

In California, the slasher killed Miranda and Vince Gardener and their son Alex; their sixteen year old daughter Cora survived the razor attack but fell into a coma. Her grandfather, psychologist Dr. Harold Davies brought his comatose granddaughter to his Davies Clinic in Stone Beach, Maine. His efforts to help her so far have failed, though he emptied out the place of any other patients. Helping Dr. Davies is Dr. Cole Johnstone, but he has personal demons of his own to resolve since his son died.

Cole believes that Cora is reaching out to them in a paranormal way, though Davies rejects his theory as garbage. When Davies becomes ill, Cole asks his former lover Sarah Delacort to help him, as she understands the para-world better than anyone else he knows. At the same time, the slasher suffers migraines caused by his connection to the survivor. He takes a leave of absence from his job and heads east leaving a trail of corpses as he comes to Maine to rid himself of the surviving headache.

A GIRL IN MIND is an exhilarating paranormal thriller which grips the audience from the moment the clinic's overnight employee flees in fear as he receives messages from beyond, and never slows down until the final confrontation below the clinic. The action packed storyline hooks readers who hope to see full justice, especially when the comatose Cora sends help messages, and Argento struggles with horrific headaches in which he recognizes the source is coming to complete the job. Mark P. Dunn keeps the suspense high with this entertaining thriller.