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Item description for The Bride Collector by ted dekker...
FBI Special agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he's picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals whose are extraordinarily gifted.
It's there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person's life when she touches the dead body.
In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise's help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most 'sane people' sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls...or inside.
As the Bride Collector picks up the pace-and volume-of his gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector's next target.
The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven women. Can Paradise help before it's too late?
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Studio: Center Street
Pages 448
Dimensions: Length: 9" Width: 6.1" Height: 1.6"
Weight: 1.45 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Apr 1, 2010
Publisher Center Street
ISBN 1599951967
ISBN13 9781599951966
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Publishers description for The Bride Collector...
FBI Special agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he's picking up his pace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a most unusual source: residents of the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally ill individuals whose are extraordinarily gifted.
It's there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed her father murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift: the ability to experience the final moments of a person's life when she touches the dead body.
In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlists Paradise's help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends this strange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most 'sane people' sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whether sanity resides outside the hospital walls...or inside.
As the Bride Collector picks up the pace-and volume-of his gruesome crucifixions, the case becomes even more personal to Raines when his friend and colleague, a beautiful young forensic psychologist, becomes the Bride Collector's next target.
The FBI believes that the killer plans to murder seven women. Can Paradise help before it's too late?
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 | Inappropriate descriptions Oct 3, 2010 |
| I have been reading Ted Dekker for a while, and I am usually impressed with his work. Thr3e, Blink of an Eye, and Skin, which are among his best. However, I started the book, and just three pages in there were two inappropriate descriptions about a woman victim that I believed were not necessary. After that, I had no desire to read further, because of the possibility of more such descriptions. | | | | Inappropriate descriptions Sep 29, 2010 |
| I have been reading Ted Dekker for a while, and I am usually impressed with his work. Thr3e, Blink of an Eye, and Skin, which are among his best. However, I started the book, and just three pages in there were two inappropriate descriptions that should not be in any Christian book. After that, I had no desire to read further. | | |  | The Bride Collector Apr 2, 2010 |
| This book begins with FBI Special Agent Brad Raines entering a crime scene at which a young woman has been glued to the wall and all of her blood drained through holes drilled in her heels. She is the fourth such woman. A lead causes the team to go to an elite mental institution called the Center for Wellness and Intelligence, where they meet a man called Roudy (who thinks he is Sherlock Holmes), a man called Cass (who thinks he is Casanova), a woman called Andrea (who can find numerical patterns in every situation), and a young woman called Paradise (who can see what someone else saw at the last moments of life just by touching the corpse). The killer is watching when the team takes the fifth victim to the Center for Wellness and Intelligence for Paradise to examine. The killer then decides to make Nikki, Brad's partner, his sixth victim. Roudy and Andrea solve where the killer has taken Nikki, but the killer moves her to the location in which he plans to kill her before Brad can reach them, leaving Brad a note to say where he will find - and does find - Nikki's body. The killer is convinced that the seventh victim must come of her own accord and kidnaps Brad to lure the seventh victim from her sanctuary at the Center for Wellness and Intelligence. It is not unusual to find a book in which the killer is a schizophrenic - but highly unusual for the ones remaining to solve the case also to be schizophrenic. | | | | awesome Mar 26, 2010 |
| I've read a lot of mystery/suspense books so I feel I'm hard to impress in this category but this book held my interest until the very end. The characters are very likable and visiting the "Center for Intelligence" adds a little bit of humor to the otherwise tense situation. I don't want to give away any of the story, but I enjoyed this book. Very entertaining read. | | |  | Thought Provoking, Intelligent Thriller Mar 24, 2010 |
At first I did not think this was a Dekker novel. The writing seemed more in-depth then usual and a bit slower-paced. However, as the story progressed it definitely became a thriller of Dekker proportions and the speed picked up and became a serious page-turner. Although a bit gruesome at times and hard to deal with such sick evil I found the overall story full of love, hope and forgiveness. It was a bit over-the-top at times but then isn't real life that way? There were enough twists and surprises to keep the story interesting and the ending was very well done. Ted has a tendency of ending his books in a rushed manner but thankfully in "The Bride Collector" he did not do that. The characters were rich and I found them to be very three-dimensional. You'll easily find yourself pulling for the good guys and you'll hurt when they hurt. Brad and Paradise are Ted's best characters since Thomas Hunter.
Biblically the story was solid. The unbeliever may be confused on the theology of the book but should at least come away with some positive message of God's love. The real version.
Some critics who did not like the book complain it was too long. I don't believe this to be true. Others complain that the medical information on the mental conditions of the CWI patients and of the killer was incorrect. I used to work at a mental hospital and although I'm not a doctor (nor do I play one on TV) I found the conduct and mental conditions to be quite accurate. Even if they're not perfect it doesn't distract from the overall story and message.
If you're looking for an intellectually stimulating thriller with a scary premise then I highly suggest getting this book. It's one of Ted's best yet.
1 Star = Pathetic
2 Stars = Fair
3 Stars = Good
4 Stars = Excellent
5 Stars = Life changing
| | | | Abuse of the term Serial Killer at it's worst Mar 23, 2010 |
Are serial killers insane? Not by legal standards. "The incidence of psychosis among murderers is no greater than the incidence of psychosis in the total population," states psychiatrist Donald Lunde. According to Dr. Donald Lunde, the mentally ill are actually less likely to murder than the general population. Those who argue that anti-social personality disorder, a common characteristic among killers, is a form of mental illness, will also concede that these people are not hospitalized for their condition, and are able to function in the world.
Of all known serial killers, less than 1% have been diagnosed with any type of schizophrenic disorder. Writers of both fiction and non-fiction need to exercise accountability to the reader. I have noted that several thriller/mystery writers use schizophrenia as a main diagnosis for serial killers in general. This is absolutely untrue, and when author uses this premise, you know the author has not done his homework.
If you are not familiar with the disease, you might believe the written word--albeit, it is ficti-- to the determent of persons who are stricken with bipolar disorders. This particular lack of responsible writing only serves to widen the gap between society and those who suffer from the physical brain disorder, schizophrenia. A physical disorder which causes a cessation of mental stability. Mental illness is the least understood and most vilely treated subject on the planet.
Schizophrenia does not cause people to go out and kill. This disease is not an inherent breeding ground for serial killers in the making. Mr. Dekker and every author like him are guilty of gross negligence and may cause untold harm to many people who suffer from this and other bipolar disorders by giving the impression they slaughter people at will. If you are going to write about serial killers, then study the subject and get it right.
Aside from all that, a meandering slog through a tiresome litany of humdrum conversations by mundane, under-fleshed characters, make this book boring in the extreme. There is nothing realistic about a psychotic woman in an institution for so-called mentally incompetent genius becoming the love object of an intelligent FBI officer. The other characters portrayed by Mister Dekker from the asylum are just as unbelievable with their abilities to equate and assimilate unbelievably inconsequential evidence. If an entire team of trained FBI agents cannot find the killer, how can a pair of inmates in a place for mental disturbances do so? I'm sorry, but no matter how I stretch my suspension of disbelief, it doesn't take me there.
Then there is the officer who is shot, point blank, in the chest and doesn't bleed out. He doesn't lose a lung, or an artery, and in fact is able to free himself and takes off down a country road. I don't think so. Mr. Dekker could have told a believable story in about half the number of pages and left out some of the sillier stuff. Then, it might have been a readable book. I only finished it because I couldn't review it if I didn't...and I admit I garnered a few moments of amusement from the read.
By introducing the purported psychotic killer and his entire thought process in the beginning of the book, the reader is told every item as it unfolds, preventing anything like a mystery to occur. The fact that the two main investigators on the case appear more like divine interpreters than detectives, only adds to the lack of this reader's ability to suspend disbelief.
| | | | Dekker shines in serial killer novel with twisted villian and great characters Mar 23, 2010 |
Ted Dekker's THE BRIDE COLLECTOR is a fascinating serial killer novel. Dekker dives into the genre and follows the pattern perfectly. He introduces a grisly murder and then a team of FBI agents. Then he switches point of view to the killer. The killer kills, the police chase. Its how the serial killer/procedural novel should work, and Dekker does it masterfully, for the first half of the novel.
The Bride Collector has just killed his fourth victim by hanging her from a wall and draining the blood out of her body. FBI Special Agent Brad Raines finds a note stuffed into the drilled hole in the girl's foot. The note leads Brad and partner/close friend to a special hospital for the mentally ill. These patients are special because they all could also be classified as geniuses.
The second half of the novel changes a bit. Brad believes that the killer has ties to the mental hospital. While there, he is introduced to several unique characters. Roudy is convinced he can solve every unsolved FBI case, if only they'll give him the files. Andrea is a whiz with numbers, a beautiful flirt, and feels compelled to take several showers a day. Cassanova is the consummate ladies man, or at least thinks he is. Paradise is a 24-year-old woman who is haunted by her childhood, fears going out in public, and doesn't take care of her self. She also claims to see ghosts. Dekker does a great job of humanizing these four "crazies" and exploring several aspects of the treatment of the mentally ill. I really enjoyed this part of the novel, even though it veered away from its great start as a procedural/serial killer novel.
Dekker fans will love this book. Fans of the genre will enjoy the purely evil Quinton Gauld, a nasty villian. This book isn't for the squeamish as it is full of violence. On a downside, I think the characterization of Brad suffers in the last half of the novel. He becomes weak in my opinion, and the knight in shining armor plot might be too much for women looking for a strong female chactacter.
Still, this is a powerful book with a powerful message that we are all God's favorite. The message about the mentally ill in society was especially enlightening. This is one of Dekker's best and he's a great Christian author with crossover appeal. A must read! | | | Write your own review about Bride Collector
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