Alma Bond's Psychological Mystery Novel Reveals an Exquisite Tight Mystery Fiction Series Highly Recommended to Reviewers
and Avid Fans of Mystery Fiction
ASJA Press novels are one of the best sources for fiction. I just happened to come across an exquisitely written novel of mystery by Alma Bond, an excellent novelist and
psychoanalyst highly qualified to understand the criminal mind.
She's the author of 13 published books, including Camille Claudel: A Novel. Old age is a Terminal Illness, The Autobiography of Maria Callas, and Tales of Psychology. I highly recommend this novel titled: The Psychoanalyst is Dead- Who Killed Marcia Maynard? By Alma H. Bond, PhD. The novel is paperback, published in 2007 by ASJA Press. ISBN 978-0-595-45896-7.
What I love about this mystery novel and the way the tome is written is the page-turning intrigue. The author reveals Dr. Marcia Maynard, the main character in the novel, as a famous child psychoanalyst and infant researcher. And the protagonist wonderfully stays in character as each person in the novel drives the action forward powerfully and with charisma in this page-turner. As the novel opens, the victim in this mystery novel, Dr. Maynard is found
murdered in her bed at an apartment in Manhattan.
The killer is unknown. And the psychoanalyst Mary Wells, the protagonist and heroine of this mystery novel helps to solve the mystery with her lover, Detective John Franklin. The team emotionally supports each other which make them unstoppable in solving problems and getting measurable results as they use their wits to solve this mystery. Dr. Wells and Lt. Franklin work together because it takes a detective and a psychoanalyst to join forces nowadays to solve a murder mystery.
The murder victim turns out to be Well's colleague and former analyst. The colleagues, staff, and friends are questioned with a goal of finding someone angry enough to kill a psychoanalyst. What they do find is that numerous individuals had been mistreated by the murdered doctor.
Those questioned include the long-time employed housekeeper, a beneficiary in the murdered psychoanalyst's will, but whom the murdered doctor abused. Then there are other suspects that are questioned, including the man in the murdered doctor's life, also mistreated by the doctor, the delivery man, whom the doctor insulted, and numerous rejected suitors.
They all had motives to do away with Dr. Marcia Maynard, famous child psychoanalyst. I highly recommend this psychological mystery novel. Find out what questions made the killer speak up and reveal the story. This character-driven story is of the highest quality mystery writing. The author is highly qualified to understand the behavioral aspects of the criminal mind as the author of 13 published books. Read this sleuth novel. It's a page turner and the third in Bond's psychological sleuth series of high-quality mystery novels from ASJA Press.
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