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Joseph Glass, a pseudonym for a New York Times bestselling author, has created an intriguing new heroine in Susan Shader, a prominent Chicago analyst and a sympathetic and courageous crimestopper. In Eyes, Shader must find a common thread in the case of a serial killer who mutilates his seemingly random victims.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
A touching, surprisingly credible central charactera woman psychiatrist with second sightanchors this new series kickoff (by a pseudonymous writer described as "a New York Times bestselling author"), but the story itself, about a serial killer who strangles women athletes and gouges out their eyes, is burdened with too much familiar or implausible baggage. The divorced mother of a six-year-old son who lives with his father in California, Dr. Susan Shader practices in Chicago and consults with the police on high-profile murder cases. Although her psychic powers zero in on a college janitor as a likely suspect in the murders of three young women, the reader has already been tipped off that he isn't the killer, so it comes as no surprise when, after he hangs himself in jail, an another eyeless corpse crops up. It doesn't add to the suspense that the real villain is one of those brilliant, endlessly resourceful lunatics who know how to finance their crime sprees. Dr. Shader's relationships with her son, her newswoman roommate and a police colleague are well drawn, as are her mixed feelings about her ESP, but Glass has let her down by not showcasing them in a more plausible story. 50,000 first printing. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
A serial killer is stalking Chicago coeds. So far, he's murdered and mutilated three, and neither Detective David Gold nor his consultant, psychic psychiatrist Dr. Susan Shader, has a clue about his identity. But with the fourth victim, an inoffensive housewife who has no obvious parallels with the three students, comes a break in the case--though one that leads to a disastrously mistaken arrest--and the fifth killing, of a University of Chicago dropout, cracks it wide open. Now at last Susan's gift of second sight, coupled with Gold's detective work, is enough to finger the killer just as he's reaching out for his next victim. Despite some streaks of purple prose (""It was easy to see that her long legs led to a rich, sensual pelvis"") and some schoolboy errors (an old-time psychic is hailed for having predicted the Lindbergh kidnapping and the death of Hindenburg years after the facts), the search for the killer is steadily engrossing. But once the perp slips through official fingers and takes his revenge on Susan by striking at her weakest point, the case turns hackneyed, overwrought, and toothless to anybody who believes the claim that this will be only the first of Susan's adventures. Still, Glass, whose pseudonym allegedly conceals a bestselling author, knows how to keep you reading through all the complaints. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
The pseudonymous Glass' first Susan Shader thriller will appeal to fans of James Patterson and Patricia Cornwell. Dr. Shader has had "second sight" ever since her parents died in a tragic accident when she was 10. Now a successful psychiatrist and police consultant, Susan has used her unique talent to help put several vicious criminals behind bars. Her latest case: Chicago is being terrorized by the "Coed Killings," so dubbed because the killer targets young female college athletes. His gory trademark is removing the victim's eyes and taking the eyeballs with him. Susan wants to help, but when her prediction of the killer's identity leads to a devastating tragedy, she finds herself reviled by the media. Then the killer strikes again, and Susan's cop buddy, Detective David Gold, begs her to make one last effort to nail the murderer. Nail-biting suspense, a roller-coaster plot, blood-and-guts murder scenes, and moral dilemmas make Eyes a top-notch suspense thriller and an impressive debut. --Emily Melton
Library Journal Review
A psychiatrist with a gift for second sight detects clues to grisly crimes the police can't solve, which eventually makes her the target of a serial killer. To guess the identity of the New York Times best-selling author who wrote this thriller under a pseudonym, readers may need second sight themselves. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.