True Evil By Greg Iles

A face you see daily, a soul you trust and when they can watch you die slowly but steadily knowing they are the one who condemned you to die is a true evil …

Alex morse ex hotshot hostage negotiator who has lost her father in a robbery attempt, her mother on death bed cos of ovarian cancer, rushes to see her sister admitted in hospital. Grace morse dies revealing (intuition) that her husband murdered her or he is the reason behind and asks her to save her son. The story is set in natchez and Mississippi. Alex then begins one woman army fight against the villain. She has to work alone as this doesn come under federal crime, nor she is in good book of the fbi head shot Dodson. Alex discovers that grace husband bill saw a divorce lawyer bill. She finds others who have seen this lawyer, lost their spouse to natural illness. This is where the plot is too muddy to grasp. Except here plot is neat and everything falls neatly in place at the climax. All the characters are well defined, each of them being given separate chapter and introduced early in the novel, the genius but mad scientist, greedy lawyer, faithful dad’s friend, even the children. Alex finds that the next target is Dr. chris shepard and confronts him with the truth, who goes into denial mode till he gets objective evidence! The spouse all die due to induced illness, in many cases its cancer. Its difficult to believe that cancer can be induced in people. Being a biology student myself, I found it little more difficult to believe. But author presents some good facts that make the science and medicine, a chilling villain than the villain who uses it. The pace of the book is fast and relentless. How Alex overcomes and saves her sisters son (not the final victim, ofcourse he lives) is the story you got to read.

Is he the next Sidney Shelton? Of the two books I read, both has female as the central character