Doll's Eyes by Bari Wood (1993)
4 out of 5 stars
A really solid horror-thriller. Part police procedural, part psychic game of cat and mouse.
Eve's psychic powers provide her with the vision of a woman being killed in the woods. She gives the information she has to the initially skeptical Detective Dave Latovsky and the hunt for the killer begins. But the killer knows someone has been watching him and now he is on the hunt for Eve.
I thought the character of Eve was really well written and the description of the effects her psychic powers have on her personal life made it feel realistic and believable. The story has a hard edge that I find lacking in some thrillers, and it's a pretty bleak and brutal story. We find out who the killer is really early on so it's less a case of whodunit and more a case of why. It brings up the nature versus nurture conversation which is really interesting. Definitely a page-turner, great characters and really well written.
A really solid horror-thriller. Part police procedural, part psychic game of cat and mouse.
Eve's psychic powers provide her with the vision of a woman being killed in the woods. She gives the information she has to the initially skeptical Detective Dave Latovsky and the hunt for the killer begins. But the killer knows someone has been watching him and now he is on the hunt for Eve.
I thought the character of Eve was really well written and the description of the effects her psychic powers have on her personal life made it feel realistic and believable. The story has a hard edge that I find lacking in some thrillers, and it's a pretty bleak and brutal story. We find out who the killer is really early on so it's less a case of whodunit and more a case of why. It brings up the nature versus nurture conversation which is really interesting. Definitely a page-turner, great characters and really well written.
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