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Season of Fear
No One Knows What the Future Holds.
When psychiatrist John Randall does a fitness-for-duty evaluation of police officer Ed Gannon, he has no idea of what lies ahead. A few weeks after the psychiatric evaluation, he receives a subpoena to testify at a trial in which Gannon is suing his employer for alleged discrimination. At the same time, a deranged man, Charles Davis, has escaped from the Yale Psychiatric Hospital and, for his own bizarre reasons, has John in his crosshairs. So begins a harrowing series of events that threatens to upend the lives of John, his wife, Ellen, and their seven-year-old daughter, Maya. John and Ellen must find the inner resources to deal with these mortal challenges to the family's peaceful suburban life.
Season of Fear was reviewed for the Baum on Books podcast:
Some thrillers chill even when the outcome’s obvious – you know who’s targeted, by whom, and why. What author Mark Rubinstein knows how to do well, however, is keep the tension high about when. In Season of Fear, his latest crime novel, he creates a suspenseful narrative with his skill as an experienced psychiatrist and author. He’s so good at describing panic and fright in excruciating physical and psychological detail that these effects become the main focus of the novel, over cause of the fear. Along the way, he also manages to inject concern about anti-anxiety medications and having guns.
You can read the full review here.
