Blind Spot

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In a wonderfully crafted supernatural thriller by the New York Timesbestselling author of The Art Forger, a forensic psychologist fights for her child (Robert B. Parker).

Blind Spot is a supernatural thriller set in an upscale suburb of Boston. It opens as forensic psychologist Suki Jacobsa single mother struggling with a big mortgage and an ex-husband in New Zealandreceives a phone call from the police informing her that her seventeen-year-old daughter, Alexa, is at the station, claiming that her ex-boyfriend, Jonah, has been murdered. Upon further investigation, Jonah is found alive, healthy, and playing basketball. But when Jonah is killed in a drive-by shooting the next day, Alexa becomes the prime suspect. Now Suki is plunged into a fight for her daughters life as well as a struggle over what isand isntpossible.

This story of a mother-daughter relationship caught in the crossfire of modern life, kids with too much knowledge of the world, and adults with too little, is a vision of all that is possible if we are willing to take off our blinders.

Reviews

Its been a long time since a book kept me up until four in the morning . . . Blind Spot races along like a locomotive gone wild. Barbara Shapiros best yet. You wont be able to put it down. Steve Womack, Edgar Awardwinning author

A terrific, terrifying, ripping readthis is a thriller you wont put down. Shapiro is the new queen of suspense. Deborah Crombie, New York Timesbestselling author

Shapiro provides us a tight plot and the tension builds as the different strands of the story spin tighter in a race against time. Dont start this too late at night. Kates Mystery Newsletter

Barbara Shapiro uses an exciting and different tack in her newest thriller, taking an already taut suspense tale and giving it a strange and eerie paranormal twist. Romantic Times

Author Bio

B. A. Shapiro is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Art Forger, five additional novels, four screenplays, and a nonfiction book. She is the recipient of the 2013 New England Book Award for Fiction, a 2013 Massachusetts Must-Read Book award, and a 2012 Boston Globe Best Crime Book award. Shapiro was also nominated for a 2013 Massachusetts Book Award. She lives in Boston and is working on her next novel.