Book Review: The Screaming Room

Reviewed By: Pat Reid - RAM

The Screaming Room     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Thomas O'Callaghan
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Serial Killer   Psychological Suspense   Police Procedural
Pinnacle Books, 2007, 341 pps.

Brother and sister warped in childhood are playing a gruesome game and people are dying and not dying an easy or pretty death.

John Driscoll, NYPD homicide commander, has just buried his wife who was in a coma for years resulting from a tragic accident. Now he has to attempt to locate the killers that causing havoc throughout the city and he doesn’t even know where to begin. A murder squad is formed headed up by Driscoll. Margaret Alligante who worked with Driscoll in O’Callahan’s novel The Bone Thief joins the group in the investigation. Margaret has haunting memories of her past that haunt her and she is hoping her memories won’t hinder the investigation.

As the investigation proceeds it seems each victim has something unsavory in his or her background that is not generally known to the public.

Although the killers are vicious it is hard not to feel some sympathy for the life that they led that warped their personalities to such an extent they became vicious killers.

Pat Reid - RAM

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