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Description
This striking debut—a suspenseful thriller inspired by historical facts—is being compared to The Historian and The Alienist. Upon Freud’s arrival in Manhattan in 1909, a beautiful young woman is found dead, dangling from a chandelier. Days later a second intended victim daringly escapes the killer, but suffering from hysteria, she has little memory of the attack. Freud and his devoted American disciple, Dr. Stratham Younger, are called in to analyze her, but the investigation grows more complex with each new discovery.
It is Summer 1909 in New York City, and someone is torturing and killing young women. Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Stratham Younger are in the city, getting ready for Freud's lecture series at Clark University. When young heiress Nora Acton is attacked, the handsome Dr. Younger proceeds to carry out analysis to bring forth her suppressed memories. This mystery is suffused with New York atmosphere. Kirby Heyborne engages from the first with a crisp reading. He has a lovely time creating the various Germans, as well as the toughs from Tammany Hall, creating all with perfect accents and pitch. His pacing adds much to the suspense, bringing to life the streets of New York, as well as the inner workings of psychological genius. B.H.B. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
