Monday, December 15, 2025

Eight Reasons: Glimpse, The Dinner Guest

 They will not lock me up again

About Glimpse, The Dinner Guest.

Detective Sargent and clinical psychologist, Patricia Holmes, has been invited to a murder mystery dinner party at a small luxury hotel located in Western Australia. The dinner is a reunion party for the psychologists and psychiatrists who work at Perth’s largest mental hospital, treating the criminally insane.

But there is an uninvited guest--a former patient hungry for revenge, a man who will stop at nothing until he murders the doctor who gave him painful, electroconvulsive therapy.

Holmes must stop a frenzied killer on a vicious spree and also save the other guests and staff—or be the last to survive.

Our Review: there are many strong points to this fast-paced story of suspense, but also of personal and professional tragedy. There is always that one patient we failed to cure or, in the event of no available cure, perhaps one whose case we might have handled differently. The lead character, Detective Patricia Holmes who also holds a pHd in psychiatry, is smart and responsible—but also realistic about her own skills as well as flaws.

The other, perhaps more important to the reader who might also be a writer, is author King’s ability to build suspense. It is non-stop action, ending in the inevitable—but the ride is one you don’t want to miss.

 Based on a scale of 1-5, Glimpse, The Dinner Guest merits a 7.

 Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews

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