Night
Terrors: A Daniel Rinaldi Mystery
Dennis Palumbo. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (352p)
ISBN 978-1-4642-0131-8
In Palumbo’s riveting third Daniel Rinaldi mystery (after
2011’s Fever Dream), the Pittsburgh, Pa., doctor applies his therapeutic skills
to a prickly former FBI special agent, Lyle Barnes, who suffers from night
terrors after a career of tracking down serial killers. Adding to Barnes’s woes
is a murderer out to get every person who helped put serial killer John Jessup
behind bars, including Barnes, who goes into protective custody. Meanwhile,
Rinaldi agrees to help Maggie Currim prove the innocence of her troubled adult
son, Wes, who has confessed to the gruesome decapitation of a local
businessman. Answers prove elusive as the murders begin to pile up, and Barnes
escapes from FBI custody. Palumbo ratchets up the stakes in this grisly
psychological thriller, but maintains the emotional complexity as Rinaldi
weighs his loyalty to his patients against his faith in the FBI. (May)
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