Help Line (A Portia McTeague novel of suspense) - Tapa blanda

Help Line is the second book in the Portia McTeague series by one of America’s foremost forensic psychologists, based on true-life murder cases in which she has served as an expert witness. In the psychiatric help line of the title, Portia McTeague knows one of her callers is a killer.

The town of Charlotte, North Carolina, is horrified by the brutal murder of a popular psychic and spiritual healer whose Cable TV call-in programme has gained quite a following among the local New Age community – especially when it becomes clear that this is only one of several violent killings.

Forensic psychologist Dr Portia McTeague has her own Help Line, taking shifts on a local crisis line that provides psychological consultation and referrals for troubled people. Like the caller who identifies himself only as ‘Ivan’. As Ivan’s calls increase, Portia begins to realise that he must be the killer at large...

When a well-known psychic healer in Charlotte, North Carolina, is found stabbed to death and mutilated in her expensive uptown office, the whole city is obessed with talk of the grisly details – all except forensic psychologist Portia McTeague, on leave from criminal work and trying to concentrate on her private practice and volunteer counselling at the Help Line.
But as the full-scale investigation team, at a loss for leads after two more killings, makes a public appeal for help, McTeague steps forward. Then ‘Ivan’ calls the Help Line and Portia can sense that not only is he the killer – but she will be his next target.