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Saving Max

By Antoinette van Heugten


       
Danielle Parkman is a highly successful lawyer. She is also a loving mother. But as her only son, Max, begins navigating through his teenage years, he starts to slip away from her. He dabbles with drugs and his behavior grows violent. Danielle seeks help, checking her son into a reputable psychiatric hospital. Shortly after his arrival, things take a dramatic turn for the worse.

Danielle watches as Max’s behavior becomes increasingly psychotic, culminating when she finds him in the room of another teen who has been brutally murdered. Max is lying next to him, unconscious and covered in blood. Danielle does the only thing she can think of—she tries to drag her son away from the scene. But she is caught.

Danielle, temporarily freed on bond, must stay one step ahead of the law as she seeks the real killer to prove her son’s innocence. And Danielle will do anything to prove Max’s innocence.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Saving Max. The fast-paced action held my attention throughout, and I often found it difficult to put the book down. My only complaint would be that, while there were descriptions of the murder throughout the story, the chapter near the end that describes the murder in step-by step horrifically graphic details was much too violent for my taste. Despite that, I did enjoy the story and would highly recommend Saving Max to anyone who loves a suspense-filled mystery thriller.


The Book

MIRA Books
September 28, 2010
Trade paperback
978-0-7783-2963-3
Suspense/Mystery Thriller
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Excerpt
NOTE: violence

The Reviewer

Marcia Berneger
Reviewed 2010
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