Amnesia
by David Best
Berkley Pub Group
Mystery: Thriller
December 4, 2004
ISBN-13: 0425199347
Available in: Paperback
Gibson State is a mental hospital controlled by an eccentric administrator with cutting-edge theories on memory. But it's what psychiatrist Marti Segerson remembers that brings her to the isolated asylum in rural Tennesseeserial killer Vernon Odessa. 20 years ago he counted Marti's sister among his victims. Marti never forgot what she saw. She still lives with the nightmaresand the need for revenge.
In the darkness of the institution, something is happening. The staff seems bound to secrecy, Odessa is engaging in mind games of his own, and Marti's memory is suddenly full of holes. The line between illusion and reality is being crossed. And even murder is not what it seems.