Inside Out: A Mystery (Natalie Price Mysteries) - Softcover

Title, Elise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312999518 ISBN 13: 9780312999513

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2004

Synopsis

As one of the youngest halfway house superintendents in the Massachusetts prison system, Natalie Price has dealt with plenty of potentially explosive situations. But she's never seen anything like the intense public and media scrutiny that's followed convicted murderer Lynn Ingram to Horizon House where she's been dogged by violence and threats throughout her sentence. Natalie is determined to help her charge make a peaceful transition back into society-but only a few weeks later, Lynn is savagely attacked and left in a coma.

Guilt-stricken, Natalie realizes the only way she can protect Lynn now is to sort through the secrets-and likely suspects-in her life. But a welter of contradictory evidence is making it impossible to discover who's really guilty even as it causes Natalie to confront some hard truths of her own.

With the attack, a viciously obsessed killer has upped the stakes in the most personal-and horrifying-way imaginable. And Natalie must race the clock to put the pieces together... knowing all too well that this time, finding justice might cost her everything.

About this title

About the Author:

Elise Title's Natalie Price novels are based on her six years as a prison psychotherapist. The author of several thrillers, she is now a full-time writer living in Boston.

From Publishers Weekly:

In Title's uneven sequel to 2002's Killing Time, Boston prison superintendent Natalie "Nat" Price investigates the physical and emotional wreckage left by the brutal slashing of a transsexual, Dr. Lynn Ingram. Lynn's dicey past includes jail time for the "self-defense" killing of a prominent Boston attorney, a brief marriage back while she was a man and estrangement from her bigoted, suddenly wealthy parents. Title treats this potentially garish case with psychological empathy and restraint. A complex and seldom cliched heroine, Nat operates in an original milieu, Horizon House, a prerelease facility. But the reader may feel like one of Nat's colleagues, who scolds her, "Fine for you to go latching on to one suspect after another." The plot takes more twists and turns than all the roller coasters in all the theme parks in Orlando, as the author brings in a suicidal addict threatening to jump from a ledge, a shady priest found hanged in his rectory, a kidnapped child, gunshots and even a kidnapped dog. Despite many convincingly rendered characters, settings verge on the formulaic-a townhouse is "posh," an Oriental rug "exquisite," a front parlor "elegant." Title keeps the reader guessing who's behind all the mayhem, but readers will hope she shows better control next time.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0312999518
• ISBN 13: 9780312999513
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 384