by Stephen White
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Psychologist Alan Gregory has a new patient: Gibbs Storey, whose looks turn grown men into dazzled adolescents. She tells Alan that she thinks her husband, Sterling, may have murdered one of her friends. Blandly recounting a history of dangerous sexual encounters, Gibbs stuns Alan with another revelation: she thinks there are other victims ...and that her husband will kill again. Struggling with a strict confidentiality agreement, Alan walks a perilous ethical line by revealing just enough to interest his detective friend, Sam Purdy, and start a search for a missing Sterling Storey and a string of innocent victims. But are they too late to stop more killings? Stephen White weaves together threads of a story that is both heartbreaking and truly terrifying. From the deadly danger that stalks Alan's family and career to the risks that Sam Purdy takes with his life, from the bonds that hold men and women together to the betrayals that tear them apart, BLINDED chillingly depicts a shocking evil that no one can see. Visit the author's website - www.authorstephenwhite.com
Amazon.com Review
Boulder psychologist Alan Gregory hasn't seen former patient Gibbs Storey since she and her husband were in marriage counseling with him almost a decade ago. So when she walks into his office with a startling declaration--that she believes her husband murdered at least one woman, and may be planning to kill more--Gregory finds himself on the horns of a dilemma that's not just professional but personal as well: He can't reveal what his patient has told him, not even to his wife, who's a prosecutor, or his friend Sam, who's a cop. What's more, his feelings for Gibbs may be clouding his judgment about the truth of what she professes. Though he telegraphs the denouement too early, Stephen White once again turns in a thoughtful, well crafted novel full of interesting insights on marriage, friendship, the human condition, and the Colorado landscape. --Jane Adams
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Workmanlike thriller, 2008-07-01
This is an entry in the long running series revolving around Boulder,Colorado based psychiatrist Alan Gregory .A former patient ,the voluptuous Gibbs Storey re-enters his life with a stunning revelation -she believes her husband ,Sterling ,is a serial killer and names a British cabin crew member Louise as one if his victims.Gregory is hamstrung by laws of client confidentiality but is permitted to share her revelation with both local and California Police officials (that being her state of residence).When Sterling goes missing the leg work involved in tracing him falls on Colorado cop and old friend Sam Purdy,who has recently sustained suffered a heart attack ,and Purdy is assisted by a woman California cop,the hard driven Carmen Reynoso .Their travels take them across America ,mostly to the South
Meanwhile Gregory has other issues -his wife's MS is worse and somebody is bugging his practice and leaking client information to the media.
The outcome is a pretty predictable and at well nigh 500 paperback pages the book is too long for its own good .however the characterization is sharp and effective ,Sam especially being a warm and welcome presence .His encounters with a Southern pastor and two hospitable elderly sisters portray with warmth and affection the type odf people often eother patronised or marginalised in American fiction
Its not bad -just solid and average
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
OKAY (ish), 2008-04-04
This mystery was, for me, just - okay.
Psychologist Alan Gregory has to have the most interesting, bizarre, and dangerous clients that any health professional has ever had in one lifetime. This time his most troubling patient is a stunningly beautiful women who tells Dr. Gregory that she knows that her husband has murdered one of their friends, and she is pretty sure that he has murdered other women as well. And of course, she needs Dr. Gregory's help.
The subplots: Alan's friend Sam has a heart attack and his marriage is breaking apart. His wife is home sick with MS for most of the book. His daughter is a typical toddler.
Many other reviewers have already mentioned that the conclusion was easily predictable and I'd have to agree.
Not a bad book, but not a real fun one either.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 White Keeps Getting Better and Better..., 2007-10-10
From the beginning, with his novel Privileged Information, I was hooked on the series. Each book has improved and the series shows no signs of growing stale. Perhaps it is the cast of recurring characters and White's ability to let his main character, Alan Gregory, not only share the spotlight with them, but from time to time to give it to them completely. In Blinded, for the first time half of the story is told from Sam Purdy's point of view. We see him as his own person, with his own issues, both personal and medical. I loved it. Some series stagnate when the main couple has children. So far, this one has not.
I started reading the next one, Missing Persons, as soon as I finished Blinded.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Disappointingly predictible, 2007-10-10
What a disappointment! If you don't have this one figured out by the end of the first few chapters, maybe you should try shopping in the young adult section. I liked the characters, so I keep hoping that the ending wouldn't be as obvious as it seemed to be. Unfortunately, it was.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1st Stephen White/Alan Gregory Read, 2006-12-01
A bit disappointing. Not a difficult plot but so many discursions. Every remark or observation seems to require a psychological analysys. Many, I felt, rather sophomoric reflections by both Sam and Alan when meeting various ladies along the way. Laurens MS, Sam's heart attack, his marital problems, etc., etc.. Give me a break!
Not bad but could have been a lot neater. Will try again later.
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