Review of The Memory Thief by Don Donaldson
5 stars
An engrossing, complex, utterly suspenseful mystery, “The
Memory Tree” will appeal to readers who like their mysteries with a lot of meat
on the bones. Marti Segerson, psychiatrist, arranges to be hired at a mental
institution in rural Tennessee, precisely in order to get close to Vernon
Odessa, the killer who slaughtered Marti’s older sister Lee when Marti was just
a child. Marti has to go through and around Administrator Oren Quinn, a
scientist who is sociopathic enough to be committed himself, and who is quite
possibly performing memory experiments which would be both illegal and
unethical, utilizing the patients at Gibson.
Convoluted but never confusing, suspenseful and emotional, “The
Memory Thief” is a rereader, and a fine introduction to the novels of Don
Donaldson, an accomplished and riveting writer.
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