Multiple Wounds, Alan Russell
Multiple Wounds, Alan Russell
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Multiple Wounds

Author: Alan Russell

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews

Unabridged: 10 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/11/2012


Synopsis

Holly Troy’s mind is a complex maze of myth and reality, multiple personalities vying for time in the spotlight. As an artist, she is creative and compelling. As a witness, she is painfully unreliable, unsure of even which person she was the night of the murder. Even Holly can’t be sure of her own innocence. Homicide detective Orson Cheever never thought he would find himself playing psychologist to a Greek goddess in a modern-day murder investigation, but many of Holly’s personalities come straight from classical mythology, from Cronos and Pandora to the Fates. As Cheever attempts to unravel truth from myth, he learns that there is even more to Holly than meets the eye. One personality in particular—that of a five-year-old girl—hits a little too close to home, and Cheever is forced to finally pull back the dark curtains of his own past in order to uncover the truth in this psychological thriller.

About Alan Russell

Called “one of the best writers in the mystery field today” by Publishers Weekly, Alan Russell is a prolific writer, his books running the gamut of crime fiction from classic whodunits and comedy to political and psychological suspense. Multiple Wounds is his fifth novel. When he isn’t writing, he is an avid gardener and cook. Russell is a native of California, where he still resides with his wife and three children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cathy

An intriguing concept for a murder story. Helen Troy has a multiple personality disorder and her 'other selves' originate in classical greek mythology. The story begins with the murder of Bonnie Gill, the owner of the gallery where Helen exhibits her sculptures. Orson Cheever, the homicide detective......more

Goodreads review by Andra

2.5 out of 5 stars Passive voice and nonsensical shifts in narration downgraded this reading experience. I sympathized with Helen Troy, the woman possessed by a Greek chorus, but I couldn't relate to Cheever as a narrator, especially when his tale was interrupted by Troy's psychiatrist. I bought this......more

Goodreads review by Kay

A lot of Greek Tragic for a modern mystery I love mysteries but this one brought in so many mythological characters it was distracting instead of complimentary addition. Same goes for psychiatric disorders and opinions. Plot got lost and characters didn't feel very deep.......more