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Knife Music: A Novel
Knife Music: A Novel
Knife Music: A Novel
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Knife Music: A Novel

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An emergency room surgeon must defend himself against a teenage girl’s shocking allegation “in this scalpel-sharp medical thriller” (Kirkus).

Dr. Ted Cogan had saved her life when he treated her in the ER six months ago. But now police detectives are questioning him about her, in intimate detail. It seems the seventeen-year-old girl he’d saved is now dead. It looks like a suicide. And Cogan is in a heap of trouble.

Accused of raping the young woman, the case against Cogan appears to be airtight. Detective Hank Madden, a disabled veteran of the Menlo Park police force, has little patience or pity for men like Cogan. Now the rich, arrogant, self-described womanizer must do whatever it takes to prove that this terrible crime is not among his many sins.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 8, 2010
ISBN9781590205822
Knife Music: A Novel

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was an amazing suspense story. Ted Cogan is a great character to get to know. He is a surgeon with a a sense of humor and both feet on the ground. Being good looking doesn't hurt him either but does it make him a rapist? You will ask yourself this over and over as you read. I changed my mind more than once.

    The writing flows very well and the author manages to not only take us into the mind of a gifted surgeon but the minds of teens as well, boys and girls. That is no easy feat. Each chapter tells the story from a different character which I liked. I particularly enjoyed reading the snippets from Kristen's Journal. The author hit it right on the head with the style a teen uses while talking. I admit annoying to read at times but dead on.

    This is an astonishing first novel. It carries the two most important features of a great thriller. First, an involving, suspenseful plot that always stays one step ahead of you, yet never strains believability or jumps out of bounds. Second, well-drawn characters whose motivations make sense. I wonder what the author will do for an encore. I am looking forward to finding out!
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I found it to be a fast read. I wasn't very interested in the story
    and felt no sympathy for the doctor. I felt no involvement with the
    characters, and found them to be not very nuanced. I think the author
    was attempting too many "twists" and instead of being suspenseful, I
    felt that it was just dragging. I also felt that the rapes were
    trivialized and there was no real connection to the trauma this girl
    went through. She committed suicide and never once was there any
    attempt to try to get into her head. I felt that the author could
    have had a very good book, had he focused more on the characters and
    not on the minutiae that he chose to focus on. There was so much crap
    about the detective's history; the doctor's friends; his dating... all
    kinds of nonsense that added nothing to the story. There was not one
    character that I sympathized with and felt I could root for. They all
    seemed so pathetic.

    Overall, I was not very moved by this story and would not be inclined
    to read another from this author.

    I don't know which book came first, but it felt like he was going for something like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo... but failed miserably. At least with TGwtDT, you have Lisbeth; who is supreme kick-ass and really carries the book. In Knife Music, I felt that there was no one to root for, or even like.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This was an amazing suspense story. Ted Cogan is a great character to get to know. He is a surgeon with a a sense of humor and both feet on the ground. Being good looking doesn't hurt him either but does it make him a rapist? You will ask yourself this over and over as you read. I changed my mind more than once.The writing flows very well and the author manages to not only take us into the mind of a gifted surgeon but the minds of teens as well, boys and girls. That is no easy feat if you ask me. Each chapter tells the story from a different character which I liked.I particularly enjoyed reading the snippets from Kristen's Journal. The author hit it right on the head with the style a teen uses while talking. I admit annoying to read at times but dead on.Example from page: 145"She was like did he say anything about me? And I was like,yeah, he asked me where my partner in crime was. And I was like, she's over talking to the Gap guy."If you are a mystery, suspense, thriller lover pick up this book. It's hard to believe it's the author's debut novel. I sure want more!

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