FBI Special Agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he’s picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellbeing and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals who are extraordinarily gifted.It’s there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person’s life when she touches the dead body.In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise’s help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most ‘sane people’ sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls…or inside.As the Bride Collector increases the pace and volume of his gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector’s next target. The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven women. Can Paradise help before it’s too late?
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Summary
From: Angela
Book Title: The bride Collector
Book Author: Ted Dekker
What do you like about this book:
I enjoyed this book overall. I almost gave up on the book in the beginning because I could not quite understand the case, the motives of the killings. The little romance between Nikki and Ted at the beginning kept me going. I started liking the book when Paradise was introduced. I liked the romance between them. It was light and strong at the same time, it is hard to explain. The book tells us a lot about psychological illness. We all deal with a lot of psychological issues and just because we are not hospitalized does not mean that we are better than others and should judge them. I would have liked the book better if there was a better background on the killer, like how he became so religious and why was he so obsessed about God's favourites. Great book. I highly recommend it.
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