Praying for Sleep Deaver, Jeffery

Michael Hrubek is a paranoid schizophrenic who's just escaped from a secure psychiatric hospital. He's six-foot-five, dangerously unpredictable, and convinced a woman named Lis Atcheson is responsible for his sister's death. Now he's headed to her remote farmhouse through a violent rainstorm, and she has no idea he's coming. What follows is a brutal night of cat-and-mouse as Lis and her estranged husband fight to survive, while the search team battles the storm and their own bureaucratic incompetence. Jeffery Deaver — the master plotter behind the Lincoln Rhyme series — strips away the forensic puzzles here and goes straight for the jugular. This is lean, vicious suspense that doesn't let up. If you like Dennis Lehane's darker work or Thomas Harris without the cannibalisme, you'll tear through this in one sitting.