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Jessica Coran #4
Pure Instinct
Responding to a call by a New Orleans police commissioner to help in a serial murder investigation, Dr. Jessica Coran faces a second challenge when a murderer she helped put away escapes from prison and comes after her. Original.
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First published October 1, 1995
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Robert W. Walker
184 books75 followersAka Geoffrey Caine, Glenn Hale, Evan Kingsbury, Stephen Robertson
Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold--the Windy City one and the Southern one--all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold--the Windy City one and the Southern one--all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.
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April 22, 2025
Jessica kept her gun and her eyes alert to the possibility that Matthew Matisak might materialize at any moment from any direction.
I do somewhat like the whole idea behind this one, the whole "murders in the gay/trans (though this was the late 80s so they're called crossdressers and they're possibly genderfluid and not trans?) community are only being solved because they're being noticed by tourists" plot detail struck a cord with me, being gay and genderfluid myself. The ending is also quite good, with its whole thing being weirdly cathartic to me. The problem is that there's a lot of waffle in the middle half and I don't mean the Matisak sideplot, I mean characters talking about things which, really, have nothing to do with either. I almost wanted to shake some of them and tell them to get on with the plot.
I suppose I'll have to get some more of these books, if only to see what the lingering plot threads that this book references were.
I do somewhat like the whole idea behind this one, the whole "murders in the gay/trans (though this was the late 80s so they're called crossdressers and they're possibly genderfluid and not trans?) community are only being solved because they're being noticed by tourists" plot detail struck a cord with me, being gay and genderfluid myself. The ending is also quite good, with its whole thing being weirdly cathartic to me. The problem is that there's a lot of waffle in the middle half and I don't mean the Matisak sideplot, I mean characters talking about things which, really, have nothing to do with either. I almost wanted to shake some of them and tell them to get on with the plot.
I suppose I'll have to get some more of these books, if only to see what the lingering plot threads that this book references were.
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September 24, 2019Gave up trying to read this. Very badly edited. Got tired of turning gibberish into English.
October 22, 2008
PURE INSTINCT - Okay
Walker, Robert W. - 5th in Jessica Coran series
High tension psychological suspense featuring a woman forensics expert.
It was okay but I just couldn't get involved with the characters.
Walker, Robert W. - 5th in Jessica Coran series
High tension psychological suspense featuring a woman forensics expert.
It was okay but I just couldn't get involved with the characters.
Want to read
January 28, 2012Book 5 in the Jessica Coran series
August 7, 2012
Fantastic finish!
August 24, 2015
Excellent storytelling. Intriguing. Rapt until the end. I give it 5 stars.
April 18, 2016
"Pure Instinct" - written by Robert W Walker and published in 1995 by Jove. Not my cup of tea and I did not finish.
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