Título: Every Fifteen Minutes
Autor: Lisa Scottoline
Sinopse: New York Times best selling 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.
"Scottoline has plenty of tricks up her sleeve." -Booklist (starred review)
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?
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Every Fifteen Minutes”, de Lisa Scottoline, publicado pela editora St. Martin's Griffin, em 2016 e com 464 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: St. Martin's Griffin
Páginas: 464
Ano: 2016-03-01
Edição: Reprint
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1250010128
ISBN13: 9781250010124
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora St. Martin's Griffin trazem narrativas que transitam entre o cotidiano íntimo e grandes temas, com personagens frequentemente em momentos decisivos de suas vidas. O catálogo permite ao leitor encontrar histórias que variam do romance contemporâneo, com conflitos pessoais e segredos em pequenas cidades, até aventuras históricas recheadas de tensão e ambientações marítimas. Também há espaço para obras que exploram o fantástico, misturando romance, mistério e elementos sobrenaturais, além de títulos que abordam temas de saúde, biografias e culinária, sempre com uma linguagem acessível e ritmo que privilegia o envolvimento emocional e a clareza.
