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    A Tightly Raveled Mind

    By Diane Lawson

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    "Diane Lawson's amazing insight into the mysteries and witchcraft of psychoanalysis . . . combined with her extraordinary writing skills makes this a one-of-a-kind novel that I found impossible to put down."Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

    Sigmund Freud would have liked Dr. Nora Goodman, a sexy forty-something psychoanalyst with her handful of neurotic patients who can't seem to allow themselves happiness, love, or success. She's not exactly a steady customer herself, born to a ranting bipolar Talmudic scholar and a mother with a heart as cold as a slaughterhouse on the Kansas prairie in January. But now she has two kids and an overbearing psychiatrist husband. She hates him. She hates his insular social world. Nora wants a new life sans husband, but what she gets is something terribly different. It starts one Monday morning when her eight o'clock patient blows himself to smithereens. The following week, another patient dies. The police see the first as an accident, the second a straightforward suicide. Nora thinks her practice is being targeted by a killer. She hires private investigator Mike Ruiz, a tightly wound ex-cop who couldn't care less for Sigmund. "Oh, Freud," Mike says. "Isn't he dead?" Freud is always watching while the unlikely pair struggle to an unexpected end.

    Diane Lawson was born and raised in La Russell, Missouri (population 128). She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Missouri, her psychiatric residency at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, and her psychoanalytic training at the Institute for Psychoanalysis, also in Chicago. She has two children and lives and practices in San Antonio, Texas.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCinco Puntos Press
    Release dateOct 27, 2014
    ISBN9781935955931
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      a gem of a novel, especially for a debut. A deadly peek into the minds of psychiatrists in the middle of divorce and whether psychoanalysis really satisfies the physician more than the patient.
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      Early in A Tightly Raveled Mind by Diane Lawson, the author TightlyRaveledMindwrites, “The Monday that my patient, Howard Westerman, blew himself to kingdom come started out like any ordinary workday–like the kind of everyday day that feeds our communal delusions that everyone we care about will live forever.”Howard Westerman was Freudian psychoanalyst Nora Goodman’s first patient on Monday morning. Goodman thinks there may be foul play because Westerman was ultra organized and would not blow up himself up in his home laboratory. The police think it was an accident and refuse to investigate. At her urging, Detective Slaughter, who is assigned to the case, recommends a private detective, Miguel Ruiz to Goodman. He, too, is skeptical.When Allison Forsythe, Goodman’s second Monday appointment “jumps” off a building the following Monday, Goodman feels that someone is targeting her clients. There is nothing in Forsythe’s personality that would allow her to jump off a building. Ruiz tends to agree that someone might be targeting Goodman’s patients, but the list of potential murders is small. It can’t be Goodman’s estranged husband and fellow psychiatrist, Richard Kleinman. It can’t be her patient who was a sniper in the war. She herself can be considered a suspect as well. Yet Goodman feels someone is out there and does not want to find on the following Monday, a third victimAuthor Lawson, who herself is a psychiatrist, gives Goodman’s patients unique, screwed up personalities. She also gives her main characters, Goodman and Kleinman, totally screwed up personalities, making one pause and wonder how people with so many issues can possibly help others with so many issues (it takes one to know one?). There’s enough action and sex (some of it sort of kinky) to satisfy most readers. It’s an interesting premise. However, I did have an inkling of the answer midway through the book.I can’t say this is the best mystery I’ve read in 2014, but it certainly held my interest. Share this:Press ThisTwitterFacebookStumbleUponPinterestEarly in A Tightly Raveled Mind by Diane Lawson, the author TightlyRaveledMindwrites, “The Monday that my patient, Howard Westerman, blew himself to kingdom come started out like any ordinary workday–like the kind of everyday day that feeds our communal delusions that everyone we care about will live forever.”Howard Westerman was Freudian psychoanalyst Nora Goodman’s first patient on Monday morning. Goodman thinks there may be foul play because Westerman was ultra organized and would not blow up himself up in his home laboratory. The police think it was an accident and refuse to investigate. At her urging, Detective Slaughter, who is assigned to the case, recommends a private detective, Miguel Ruiz to Goodman. He, too, is skeptical.When Allison Forsythe, Goodman’s second Monday appointment “jumps” off a building the following Monday, Goodman feels that someone is targeting her clients. There is nothing in Forsythe’s personality that would allow her to jump off a building. Ruiz tends to agree that someone might be targeting Goodman’s patients, but the list of potential murders is small. It can’t be Goodman’s estranged husband and fellow psychiatrist, Richard Kleinman. It can’t be her patient who was a sniper in the war. She herself can be considered a suspect as well. Yet Goodman feels someone is out there and does not want to find on the following Monday, a third victimAuthor Lawson, who herself is a psychiatrist, gives Goodman’s patients unique, screwed up personalities. She also gives her main characters, Goodman and Kleinman, totally screwed up personalities, making one pause and wonder how people with so many issues can possibly help others with so many issues (it takes one to know one?). There’s enough action and sex (some of it sort of kinky) to satisfy most readers. It’s an interesting premise. However, I did have an inkling of the answer midway through the book.I can’t say this is the best mystery I’ve read in 2014, but it certainly held my interest.