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Dean Grant ME #1

by Robert W. Walker

A WATERY GRAVE

The killer liked to watch them drown. First they gasped for breath. Then they thrashed around. Why did they even bother to struggle? They all ended up the same; floating dead in the water.

Dr. Dean Grant, head of Criminal Forensic Medicine, was Chicago's expert on serial killings. Corpses were his business. But Grant's skills, cunning, and experience may not be enough to stop a psychopath from turning the city into his own private drowning pool.

Genres: Mystery, Horror, Mystery Thriller, Thriller, Fiction

228 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 1988

About the author

Aka 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.

Reviews

[Grady Hendrix · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meet Dr. Dean Grant, a ludicrously square-jawed lovemaking machine who is also the Chicago medical examiner. Facing him is an even more ludicrous serial killer who is, of course, trans (sigh). Together, they will send you to pulp heaven with out-of-nowhere plot twists and completely made-up forensic science that winds up totally deconstructing criminal profiler fiction. Not the best Dr. Dean Grant book, but the first.

[Wayne · Rating 3 out of 5]

First of, this is not a horror novel as stated on the spine of this book. It's more of a thriller/mystery. Mostly though, it's a very long character study. The plot seems secondary to the long narratives the author goes on with almost every person. I know character development is important,but these things go on and on with no relevance to plot building. When we do get around to the plot, it's not to bad. It kind of seems like an average TV movie of the week. This book could of been cut in half to make it more entertaining.

The plot revoles around someone drowning children and the elderly who are close to death. A medical examiner is out to catch the killer. The M.E. is married to a nurse that is accused of neglect in one of these killings. Not bad, but I wouldn't make to big an effort to seek it out.

[Mikepottz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Watching the human body absorb water, be absorbed by water becoming one with the water, the killer watched the drowning intensely. The victims cleansed by the water, washing away the suffering and pain. The killer waited for the body to float up, he would take photos, he loved to watch. Dr Grant head of criminal forensics is totally obsessed with the case of dozens of drowning victims. He will reach the depths of insanity, his wife will be taken, a dark disturbing religious suffering.

[Jack · Rating 3 out of 5]

Medical examiner serial killer thriller. Competent writing but some dodgy spelling

[Melody · Rating 4 out of 5]

nice!