Every Fifteen Minutes By Lisa Scottoline – Book Review #17
Wow, finishing Every Fifteen Minutes means I’ve read book 17 already! I’m about 5 books ahead of my target for the year, but the summer holidays will be upon us soon which means I’ll probably fall behind!
Every Fifteen Minutes
Here’s the blurb from Goodreads:
Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he takes on a new patient, Eric’s entire world begins to crumble. Seventeen-year-old Max has a terminally ill grandmother and is having trouble handling it. That, plus his OCD and violent thoughts about a girl he likes makes Max a high risk patient. Max can’t turn off the mental rituals he needs to perform every fifteen minutes that keep him calm.
With the pressure mounting, Max just might reach the breaking point. When the girl is found murdered, Max is nowhere to be found. Worried about Max, Eric goes looking for him and puts himself in danger of being seen as a “person of interest” himself. Next, one of his own staff turns on him in a trumped up charge of sexual harassment. Is this chaos all random? Or is someone systematically trying to destroy Eric’s life?
New York Times best selling author Lisa Scottoline’s visceral thriller, Every Fifteen Minutes, brings you into the grip of a true sociopath and shows you how, in the quest to survive such ruthlessness, every minute counts
My Thoughts
This book was a bit slow for me. I did enjoy it and didn’t see the end coming but I had to make myself pick it up to read a few pages every day.
It did pick up a bit and I managed to read it in a week but if I weren’t doing the Goodreads reading challenge, I think it would have taken me much longer to get to the end.
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I’ve had a couple of slow starters recently and found it really hard work. Trying to get back into the rhythm! #readwithme
This sounds like an intriguing story. Congratulations on reading 17 books already!!
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Sounds an interesting choice but I love one of those books that you can’t put down best of all #ReadWithMe
I really liked the sound of the blurb, but your comments put me off a bit! Maybe I’ll give this one a miss. My reading always falls behind in the summer holidays too. I go from averaging a book a week to one book lasting me the entire six weeks!
Mmm I need a book to really grab me to be able to stick with it, well done on being ahead of target! #readwithme
I was only half convinced by the blurb that I would want to give this a try and when I saw that you found it slow to get into, I’ve decided to give it a miss. I’m not good with slow starts #readwithme