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The Memory Collector
Meg Gardiner
First Time in Paperback
The second pulse-pounding thriller in Meg
Gardiner’s Jo Beckett series, whose "thrilling,"1
"crackerjack,"2 "adrenaline-filled"3 debut was an
Independent Mystery Booksellers Association bestseller.
Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett’s specialty is the
psychological autopsy—an investigation into a
person’s life to determine whether a death was
natural, accidental, suicide, or homicide. She calls herself
a deadshrinker instead of a head-shrinker: The silence of
her “patients” is a key part of the job’s
attraction. When Jo is asked to do a psychological autopsy
on a living person—one with a suspect memory who
can’t be trusted to participate in his own medical
care—she knows all her skills will be put to the test.
Jo is called to the scene of an aircraft inbound from London
to help deal with a passenger who is behaving erratically.
She figures out that he’s got anterograde amnesia, and
can’t form new memories. Jo finds herself racing to
save a patient who can walk and talk and yet can’t
help Jo figure out just what happened to him. For every
cryptic clue he is able to drag up from his memory, Jo has
to sift through a dozen nonsensical statements. Suddenly a
string of clues arises, something to do with a superdeadly
biological agent code-named “Slick,” a missing
wife and son, and a secret partnership gone horribly wrong.
Jo realizes her patient’s addled mind may hold the key
to preventing something terrible from happening in her
beloved San Francisco. In order to prevent it, she will have
to get deeper into the life of a patient than she ever has
before, hoping the truth emerges from the fog of his mind in
time to save her city—and herself.
Signet, June 2010
Featuring: Jo Beckett
ISBN-10: 0451230264
ISBN-13: 9780451230263
304 pages Paperback
$7.99
Also by Meg Gardiner:
 The Liar's Lullaby, June 2011
The Dirty Secrets Club, June 2009
Kill Chain, October 2008
Crosscut, September 2008
Jericho Point, August 2008
Mission Canyon, July 2008
China Lake, June 2008
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