Sarah Lovett Books In Order

Dr. Sylvia Strange Books In Order

  1. Dangerous Attachments (1995)
  2. Acquired Motives (1996)
  3. A Desperate Silence (1998)
  4. Dantes’ Inferno (1999)
  5. Dark Alchemy (2003)

Vanessa Pierson Books In Order

  1. Blowback (2013)
  2. Burned (2014)

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Sarah Lovett Books Overview

Dangerous Attachments

‘ A SUSPENSE SOAKED THRILLER…
A welcome addition to Patricia Cornwell territory, Lovett is a meticulously fine writer who offers both cold, clinical realism and sensitive insight.’ West Coast Review of BooksAs a consultant to the New Mexico prison system, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Sylvia Strange has probed the minds of some of the country’s most disturbed and dangerous criminals. But nothing prepares her for the madness of Lucas Watson.’ A CHILLING TALE, PEPPERED WITH CONTINUOUS PLOT TURNS. San Francisco ExaminerWhen Lucas escapes from the state penitentiary, he cooly and methodically begins to stalk Sylvia. Now, caught in a harrowing cat and mouse game that only one of them can win, Sylvia must use all of her psychological insights and courage to stay one step ahead of a madman.’Dangerous Attachments continues to surprise and excite to the very end. An emotional, vivid thriller.’ Vincent Bugliosi Author of Helter Skelter’COMPELLING…
NOT TO BE MISSED.’ Mostly Murder

Acquired Motives

A different kind of serial killer is terrorizing the city of Santa Fe. All of the victims have one thing in common: they were violent sex offenders who slipped through the cracks in the justice system, and walked on legal technicalities. Someone has decided to make them pay. Forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange is called upon to help catch the killer, even if she has mixed feelings about the victims. She must uncover the pain of a madman pain that has driven him over the edge and into the depths of sad*istic retribution. But Sylvia soon draws the attentions of the vigilante, who decides that anyone who tries to stop justice must be dealt with as any other criminal with a sentence of death. Includes exciting excerpts from Sarah Lovett’s thrillers featuring Dr. Sylvia Strange: Dangerous Attachments, A Desperate Silence, Dantes’ Inferno and her lastest hardcover, Dark Alchemy, coming soon from Simon and Schuster

A Desperate Silence

‘She doesn’t have a name. She’s got the clothes on her back, a coloring book, a necklace, and a stick of bubble gum. She’s ex parte. She’s not talking. That’s why they want you.’ With these words, Dr. Sylvia Strange the tough forensic psychiatrist in Sarah Lovett’s critically acclaimed novels Dangerous Attachments and Acquired Motives is drawn into the world of a ten year old child too scared to speak. In A Desperate Si lence, Dr. Strange must uncover this little girl’s secrets or else the knowledge she possesses just might die with her. What has this fragile child witnessed that makes her so dangerous? Dr. Strange soon learns that the girl’s tattered history reaches across the border to the drug lords of Mexico and across town to a killer on death row. The deeper she delves into the mute child’s psyche, the more Dr. Strange realizes just how frighteningly vulnerable her patient is and how vital the bond between them has become. A second attempt on the young girl’s life by a sad*istic madman pushes Dr. Strange into overdrive, struggling to put the pieces of this terrifying puzzle together before it is too late. With roller coaster suspense, a tightly woven plot, the eerie texture of the American South west, and a hero*ine as sexy as she is intellectually provocative, Sarah Lovett’s A Desperate Silence cements her reputation among the best suspense writers at work today.

Dantes’ Inferno

The author of the critically acclaimed novels Dangerous Attachments and Acquired Motives is back with another spellbindingly original thriller featuring forensic psychiatrist Sylvia Strange. Now, in Dantes’ Inferno, Sylvia is called to Los Angeles from her New Mexico home when a massive explosion blasts through the J. Paul Getty Museum, endangering children on a field trip and claiming two lives. The police peg notorious bomber John Dantes as the mastermind, even though he’s in a maximum security prison, serving a life sentence for another bombing he claims he didn’t commit. Dr. Strange, a genius at accessing the most tortured psychiatric cases, is called in to evaluate Dantes. The prisoner is said to be unreachable and renowned for psychologically terrorizing his every visitor. But Dr. Strange forms a sudden, and unsettling, connection with Dantes. There’s something about the enigmatic loner and his obsession with Los Angeles that both confounds and unnerves her. She’s not at all convinced he’s the man behind the bombs now ripping through the city but she is convinced he holds the key to finding the real bomber. The problem remains: how to get at Dantes? The police department’s drug and interrogation campaign effectively stupefies the patient, and Dr. Strange’s inability to ‘get results’ troubles her deeply pragmatic supervisor, who in turn challenges her approach, her ability, and her intuition. As the death toll rises, so does public outcry, and sanctions against the fully demonized prisoner are further tightened. With the clock ticking on a bomb promised to be of epic proportions, Dr. Strange’s sovereignty over her patient is slipping away along with, seemingly, her sanity. Dantes’ Inferno is a hypnotic, heart pounding journey to the soul of madness that reveals disturbing and darkly universal truths about human nature. It is Sarah Lovett’s best thriller yet.

Dark Alchemy

Sylvia Strange is back in a hair raising chiller from the acclaimed author of Dantes’ Inferno and Acquired Motives. A string of deaths in laboratories around the world has the scientific community on edge and the FBI on high alert. To the FBI, the circumstances surrounding the scientists’ deaths spell the work of an unusually skilled serial poisoner, and they have zeroed in on a single suspect: the brilliant, beautiful Dr. Christine Palmer. A world renowned toxicologist and leader of numerous international research teams, Palmer is one of only a handful of scientists with highly classified knowledge of the deadliest experimental neurotoxins and their antidotes. When a molecular toxicologist is poisoned while working at a top secret research facility outside Santa Fe, Dr. Sylvia Strange and counterterrorism expert Edmond Sweetheart are recruited to assemble a psychological profile of Palmer in an effort to link her to the crimes. But as Sylvia’s investigation of Palmer’s charismatic persona draws her ever more strongly into the scientist’s orbit, hunter and hunted become perilously intertwined. And when Sylvia discovers that her partner may be withholding crucial information, she no longer knows who can be trusted: is the killer friend or foe? Sylvia will risk everything she holds dear, only to learn that there is no safe haven from a voyeuristic killer whose weapon of choice may go undetected in the food you eat, the clothes you wear, or the air you breathe.

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