Mind Games

By Seth Kindler

Twenty years after a Nashville singing star is murdered, a serial killer continues to strike down the artist's look-alikes, and the grown son of the victims, a police detective, vows to solve the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451184971
• ISBN13: 9780451184979
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Onyx Books
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

NUTTY NASHVILLE

OKAY, SO NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE READ THIS INTRIGUING, IF BIZARRE, MYSTERY. MR. KINDLER'S SECOND BOOK IS ONE OF THE STRANGEST MYSTERY/THRILLERS TO COME DOWN THE PIKE.SET IN NASHVILLE, IT FOLLOWS DETECTIVE RIDER CHAPPELL AS HE SEARCHES FOR A GRUESOME SERIAL KILLER WHO DRUGS HIS VICTIMS AND THEN PUTS THEM INTO DEAD HORSES, SEWS THEM UP, AND LETS THEM DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH. THE VICTIMS ARE ALL LOOKALIKES OF A DECEASED COUNTRY SINGING SUPERSTAR, RAE WILLIE CHAPPELL, WHO HAPPENS TO BE RIDER'S MOTHER. RAE WILLIE DIED MYSTERIOUSLY IN A TRAILER FIRE TWENTY YEARS EARLIER, AND THE MURDERS HAVE BEEN GOING ON SINCE THEN, OBVIOUSLY TRIGGERED BY ANY EVENTS THAT ARE CONNECTED WITH RAE WILLIE'S CAREER. IF THAT WEREN'T ENOUGH, THERE'S ALSO A PSYCHO WHO IS KILLING PROSTITUTES AND DUMPING THEM IN THE RIVER. ARE THESE TWO KILLERS CONNECTED?ALONG WITH THE FASCINATING CHARACTER OF RIDER CHAPPELL, WE MEET HIS EGOTISTICAL AND RATHER BRUTAL BROTHER, DR. PONDER CHAPPELL, WHO HAPPENS TO BE A VETERINARIAN FOR THE RICH AND FAMOUS, AND ALSO RIDER'S MYSTERIOUS SISTER, GALE, WHO POPS IN AND OUT LIKE A PHANTOM. RIDER THINKS SHE'S WORKING UNDERCOVER FOR THE GOVERNMENT. GALE, TOO, IS A COUNTRY SINGER, ALTHOUGH NOWHERE NEAR AS POPULAR AS HER LATE MOTHER.KINDLER KEEPS THE PLOT MOVING, AND YOU NEVER KNOW EXACTLY WHO IS WHO FOR SEVERAL OF THE SEQUENCES. THE PLOT TWISTS AND TURNS TO A RATHER STUNNING DENOUEMENT, ALTHOUGH BY THE END, MUCH OF WHAT HAPPENS SEEMS RATHER ANTI-CLIMACTIC AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, THE RESOLUTION IS PRETTY ABSURD.BUT HEY, IT'S A HECK OF A ROLLER COASTER RIDE GETTING THERE.THE BOOK DESERVED A BETTER RECEPTION. IF ANYONE READS THIS, IT'S WORTH BUYING A USED COPY OR CHECKING YOUR LOCAL USED BOOK STORE. IT'S QUITE AN UNUSUAL BOOK!