FBI Special agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he's picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals whose are extraordinarily gifted.
It's there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person's life when she touches the dead body.
In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise's help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most 'sane people' sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls...or inside.
As the Bride Collector picks up the pace-and volume-of his gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector's next target.
The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven women. Can Paradise help before it's too late?
My thoughts
A serial killer is abducting women, draining the blood from them and leaving their bodies glued to walls of abandoned buildings in the Denver area. The FBI is brought in and agent Brad Raines works with a schizophrenic named Paradise who has the ability to ‘see’ the last things a person sees by touching their dead bodies. Raines needs all the help he can get and starts to feel for Paradise. But can the FBI and Paradise with her institutionalized friends catch “The Bride Collector” before he kills again. This almost sounds like a comedy but Ted Dekker has written an intense thriller that kept me captivated until the last page of this exciting novel.
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