Cold Judgment

Name: Cold Judgment
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Joanne Fluke
ISBN: 9781490633022

Author: Joanne Fluke

Narrator: Brian O'Neill

Unabridged: 7 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/28/2014

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, Psychological, Suspense & Thriller, Crime

Synopsis

Prescription DEATH. Eight attractive talented people, each tottering on the razor's edge of sanity. Now their psychiatrist, Dr Elias, id dying from a ravaging cancer, and he has made his cold final judgment. Those he can't cure, he must kill.

About Joanne Fluke

American author Joanne Fluke has written several works using pen names. Her given, actual name, is Joanne Gibson Fischmann, born in 1943 in Swanvile, Minnesota. Under pen name, Joanne Fluke, she is most recognized for her mystery series, Hannah Swensen, based around a small town bakery. Five Hallmark Channel movies have been made from Fluke's Swensen series. She has written under the other pseudonyms of John Fischer, R. J. Fischer, Jo Gibson, Chris Hunter, Gina Jackson and Kathryn Kirkwood.

Fluke attended St. Cloud State University, and earned a B.A. Degree in psychology in 1973 from California State University. She had several second jobs while she worked at building her writing career, but her most important titles were mother, wife and homemaker. She lives in Southern California with her television writer husband, Ruel E. Fischmann, her children and step-children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jenny on June 03, 2018

Cold Judgment is a psychological thriller about egos and mental illness. At first, when psychiatrist Dr. Elias found out he had cancer he referred his six patients to other psychiatrists. However, his six patients were not happy with their new psychiatrists Dr. Elias starts to believe he must kill t......more

Goodreads review by Pam on July 22, 2020

The only books Joanne Fluke books I had read previously were the Hannah Swenson books. This is an earlier and a darker mystery, but I enjoyed it. Dr. Elias, a renowned psychiatrist, is dying, and he is worried about the fate of eight of his most potentially dangerous patients. As the patients start......more

Goodreads review by Amy on March 23, 2020

This was a quick read. Not a lot of mystery because you know who the killer is & why he thinks he has to do what he’s doing. I did like the characters. Yes the ending is a little sappy but not overboard. I was expecting a certain ending & I am happy to say it didn’t happen.......more

Goodreads review by Pam Starr on April 20, 2020

End of the road. All seems lost. Their mentor no longer available. Where do they turn? Who can they trust? Things are happening. Where is the voice of reason?......more

Goodreads review by Denise on December 23, 2022

Interesting premise. The doctor was wrong though he thought he was saving people. I like the ending though.......more