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Body of Evidence #5
Head Games
While home from college for the holidays, Jenna Blake discovers an alarming number of teens in her town have gone on homicidal rampages and Jenna thinks the murders are connected to a self-erasing, bootleg video that alters brain chemistry. Original.
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 1, 2000
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Christopher Golden
798 books2,960 followersCHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of such novels as Road of Bones, Ararat, Snowblind, Of Saints and Shadows, and Red Hands. With Mike Mignola, he is the co-creator of the Outerverse comic book universe, including such series as Baltimore, Joe Golem: Occult Detective, and Lady Baltimore. As an editor, he has worked on the short story anthologies Seize the Night, Dark Cities, and The New Dead, among others, and he has also written and co-written comic books, video games, screenplays, and a network television pilot. Golden co-hosts the podcast Defenders Dialogue with horror author Brian Keene. In 2015 he founded the popular Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival. He was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. His work has been nominated for the British Fantasy Award, the Eisner Award, and multiple Shirley Jackson Awards. For the Bram Stoker Awards, Golden has been nominated ten times in eight different categories. His original novels have been published in more than fifteen languages in countries around the world. Please visit him at www.christophergolden.com
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December 16, 2019
A girl comes home from her freshman year of college for Christmas and has found her relationships with her friends aren't the same. She gets over that, until a fellow HS graduate kills his entire family and she wants to help investigate. This event occurs twice more to fellow graduates and she helps uncover why.
April 19, 2024
2.5 for me.
Never really felt too engaged in this book, it felt a little lackluster. I feel like it never hit the mark, just fell short in the end for me. A quick read though so not too disappointed, kept me entertained enough on a flight!
Never really felt too engaged in this book, it felt a little lackluster. I feel like it never hit the mark, just fell short in the end for me. A quick read though so not too disappointed, kept me entertained enough on a flight!
August 9, 2017
Not my favorite plot line of these books but okay.
October 26, 2009
I do enjoy this series of YA forensic mystery. Jenna is smart and her character is written enough as an 18 year old learning how to get older and going home isn't easy, but an intelligent 18 year old who knows she will be up for the journey.
Jenna comes home for Christmas and realizes that she isn't sure one can really go home again. She is torn between missing her mom and her friends in her hometown and missing her other home at college with her job working with Slick and Dyson and the friends and boyfriend in her college life. The murders of the families throws a light on the changes in her relationships with her high school friends. She feels compelled to help the police and her friends think she's weird for wanting to do so. The murders are appalling, but they think Jenna is full of herself now. The police think she's too young to be of any help.
There are some amazing co-ink-e-dinks that move the story along at a rather rapid pace, but it's a short book, so it was likely necessary and reasonably understandable.
I look forward to reading/listening to the rest of the series. Christopher Golden is on my WWBL and has been for a while. Highly recommend...
Four don't judge a book by it's young cover beans.....
Jenna comes home for Christmas and realizes that she isn't sure one can really go home again. She is torn between missing her mom and her friends in her hometown and missing her other home at college with her job working with Slick and Dyson and the friends and boyfriend in her college life. The murders of the families throws a light on the changes in her relationships with her high school friends. She feels compelled to help the police and her friends think she's weird for wanting to do so. The murders are appalling, but they think Jenna is full of herself now. The police think she's too young to be of any help.
There are some amazing co-ink-e-dinks that move the story along at a rather rapid pace, but it's a short book, so it was likely necessary and reasonably understandable.
I look forward to reading/listening to the rest of the series. Christopher Golden is on my WWBL and has been for a while. Highly recommend...
Four don't judge a book by it's young cover beans.....
May 31, 2010
In this novel from Golden's "Body of Evidence" series, Jenna Blake, assistant to the local pathologist, has returned home from her first semester of college for the Christmas break. She is horrified when three high school friends brutally murder their entire families. The police are leaning toward the idea that these teens were influenced to kill by violent video games, but as she investigates, Jenna begins to believe that someone is playing sinister head games with her classmates. Can Jenna solve this mystery before disaster strikes again?
Golden is good at both writing the clinical details of an autopsy and creating believable relationships between Jenna and her friends. While the danger to Jenna never feels quite real in this volume, it's still interesting to follow the conclusions she comes to as she draws closer to solving the mystery. Perfect for fans of TV shows like CSI and Bones, as well as any teen who enjoys reading a good mystery.
Golden is good at both writing the clinical details of an autopsy and creating believable relationships between Jenna and her friends. While the danger to Jenna never feels quite real in this volume, it's still interesting to follow the conclusions she comes to as she draws closer to solving the mystery. Perfect for fans of TV shows like CSI and Bones, as well as any teen who enjoys reading a good mystery.
January 28, 2008
I am trying to introduce myself to more young-adult books as I have heard that it is a genre that is really booming with exciting new authors and stories. Unfortunately this book ain't that great. An average tale of a freshman girl who just happens to be a pathologist's assistant (cashing in on that forensic science mystery genre that is all the rage) and what happens when she returns to her home town for Christmas. The murders that happen are incredibly far fetched as well as her involvement in them. However, I did like the interplay between her high school friends and her as they discover that going to college means a lot of changes and sometimes friendships don't survive that.
July 16, 2022
A good addition to the series. It's Jenna's first time being really home since she started college, and she gets to evaluate how she's changed and how the people she knew in high school (less than a year ago!) are so different from where she is now. Plus, of course, there's a freaky new homicide streak going on, and she has to establish herself all over again with the local police in order to assist.
The series premise still perhaps feels far-fetched for her as a very green intern to be having these insights that seasoned investigators are overlooking, but that's the point, and it's still a fun series.
The series premise still perhaps feels far-fetched for her as a very green intern to be having these insights that seasoned investigators are overlooking, but that's the point, and it's still a fun series.
February 8, 2016
Although I really like this series, I am tired somehow. So, only 4 stars, for a nice fast read, but a bit bored.
Still recommend this. Can be read as a standalone, but then you miss out on the better ones in this series.
Still recommend this. Can be read as a standalone, but then you miss out on the better ones in this series.
May 8, 2010
this was the first of the airplane reads, which is how i got sucked into it. the plot (through a bit flimsy) piqued my interest and i found myself reading faster to reach the end.
July 8, 2014
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March 12, 2014
I think this is possibly a YA series but I enjoy it and this was no exception.
June 13, 2014
I did like this one better than the others so far. But again it is a curse to know Jenna.
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