Blind Spot - by B A Shapiro (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

In a "wonderfully crafted" supernatural thriller by the New York Times-bestselling 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 Jacobs--a single mother struggling with a big mortgage and an ex-husband in New Zealand--receives 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 daughter's life as well as a struggle over what is--and isn't--possible.

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.

Review Quotes

"It's 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 Shapiro's best yet. You won't be able to put it down." --Steve Womack, Edgar Award-winning author

"A terrific, terrifying, ripping read--this is a thriller you won't put down. Shapiro is the new queen of suspense." --Deborah Crombie, New York Times-bestselling 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. Don't start this too late at night." --Kate's 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

About the Author

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.