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Midnight Red
It is the year 2000 and Atlanta is being rocked by a succession of murders-by-bloodletting. Kristin Van Zant, a young and enthusiastic observer of human nature, is also a hot forensic psychiatrist who throws herself into her work with the kind of passionate abandon that results in cases solved or lives lost. Weighing in as both sleuth and shrink, Kris takes over the case from her Uncle Hank, head of Forensic Psychology at Emory University and coronary victim of his own excesses. She is determined to find this serial killer, dubbed the Atlanta Vampire, who has managed to elude capture and continue his reign of terror unabated.
Kris knows about terror. As a child, she was the only survivor of a grisly massacre that took the lives of her parents and brother. With her help, the killer was caught and convicted. Thus began a correspondence between Kris and the depraved man, and her ostensibly unwholesome kinship with everything demented and homicidal.
Relying on gritty genius and guts, Kris makes contact with the Atlanta Vampire and effectuates his arrest. He�s brought to trial and Kris is called as an expert witness�for the defense. Driven by curiosity and intentions only she can explain, she takes him on as a patient. What happens next is pure Steven Rudd: twists and turns of plot that lead to a sadistic culprit, a mysterious woman who might hold the key to this story.
In Dr. Krstin Van Zant, Rudd has created a complex and enigmatic character. Are her motives what they seem to be, or is she driven by vengeance, perhaps an evil we expect only from those psychotic killers she so deftly exposes?
About the Author
Steven Rudd is a neurologist in Birmingham, Alabama and a member of the faculty of the UAB School of Public Health. He earned a law degree from Georgetown and gained case knowledge while working for the government. His short stories have appeared in Blue Murder magazine; one of them was nominated for an Edgar (the Pulitzer of who-dun-its).
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