Every Fifteen Minutes, Lisa Scottoline
Every Fifteen Minutes, Lisa Scottoline
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Every Fifteen Minutes

Bestseller

Author: Lisa Scottoline

Narrator: George Newbern

Unabridged: 13 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/14/2015


Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline's visceral thriller, Every Fifteen Minutes,brings you into the grip of a true sociopath and shows you how, in the quest to survive such ruthlessness, every minute counts.

Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he takes on a new patient, Eric's entire world begins to crumble. Seventeen-year-old Max has a terminally ill grandmother and is having trouble handling it. That, plus his OCD and violent thoughts about a girl he likes makes Max a high risk patient.

Max can't turn off the mental rituals he needs to perform every fifteen minutes that keep him calm. With the pressure mounting, Max just might reach the breaking point. When the girl is found murdered, Max is nowhere to be found. Worried about Max, Eric goes looking for him and puts himself in danger of being seen as a "person of interest" himself.

Next, one of his own staff turns on him in a trumped up charge of sexual harassment. Is this chaos all random? Or is someone systematically trying to destroy Eric's life?

About Lisa Scottoline

Lisa Scottoline is the New York Times bestselling author of over thirty novels including Look Again, Lady Killer, Think Twice, Save Me and Everywhere That Mary Went. She also writes a weekly column, “Chick Wit,” with her daughter Francesca Serritella, for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The columns have been collected in several volumes, including Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog and My Nest Isn’t Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space. Scottoline has won an Edgar® Award and Cosmopolitan magazine’s “Fun Fearless Fiction” Award, and she served as the president of Mystery Writers of America. She teaches a course on justice and fiction at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma mater. She lives in the Philadelphia area.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Martha on 2016-09-01 13:20:38

I have read other of this authors books and enjoyed them But I found the main character very annoying - he made so many ridiculous decisions throughout the whole book that I wondered how he managed to graduate from medical school. And his self-rightious justifications were just as annoying. Any 10 year old who has watched Dateline would know better how to conduct themselves as a murder suspect. As a result, it felt very contrived and an example of the idiot plot.

Goodreads review by Sonja Rosa Lisa ♡ on May 13, 2023

Dr. Eric Parrish ist Leiter einer psychiatrischen Abteilung eines Krankenhauses in Pennsylvania. Er hat ein glückliches und zufriedenes Leben, bis plötzlich alles anders wird. Es beginnt mit dem Scheitern seiner Ehe. Seine Frau möchte ihm die gemeinsame Tochter entfremden, dann gerät er unter Mordve......more

Goodreads review by ☘Misericordia☘ on February 24, 2018

Oh-so-chilling story of a self-proclaimed sociopath. A panel of those. An explosive story if there ever was one. Don't want to spoil it but a reader is due for a load of surprises! Q: I’m a sociopath. I look normal, but I’m not. I’m smarter, better, and freer, because I’m not bound by rules, law, emot......more

Goodreads review by Nona on March 01, 2015

Watch for this novel on April 14, 2015 Have you ever read a book that stayed with you during the day while you were working, or going about your daily routine? A book that made you want to turn on the news to see what’s happening in the character’s lives – even though you KNOW you are just reading a......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie on April 25, 2015

First off I won this as and ARC from Goodreads, so yay me! I wanted to love this book but alas that was not the case. The main character, Dr. Parrish is the most ridiculous doctor I have ever read about. This is the story of Dr. Eric Parrish, Chief of the Psychiatric department at Havenmeyer General H......more