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Trouble

by Jesse Kellerman
Scott Brick
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“A finely written, sleekly plotted novel.”
–Los Angeles Times on Sunstroke

Young, idealistic, and overworked, Jonah Stem is living the lonely life of a medical student in New York City when he accidentally stumbles across a murder in progress: a woman being stabbed to death in the middle of the sidewalk. Without thinking, Jonah rushes in to protect her–
inadvertently killing her attacker in the process.
Thrust into the media spotlight, crushed by guilt, Jonah quickly learns that heroism isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. He receives a shower of unwanted attention–and hostility–from his superiors. The district attorney wants to “interview” him. The family of the dead man wants revenge.
And everything is further upended when the woman whose life he saved shows up at his apartment. What begins as a thank-you drink turns into a wildly passionate love affair. As their relationship deepens, however, Jonah realizes that she isn’t quite the woman she appears to be. His nightmare has only begun, and the price of kindness will turn out to be higher than he could have imagined.
Expertly crafted, chillingly beautiful, TROUBLE is a heart-stopper, proof positive that Jesse Kellerman has joined the “first ranks of mystery and suspense writers” (Forbes).

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  • Release date

    January 23, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415937129
      • File size: 368947 KB
      • Duration: 12:48:38

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from October 30, 2006
      Kellerman, the son of bestsellers Faye and Jonathan Kellerman, shows that his impressive debut, Sunstroke
      , was no fluke with this gripping psychological page-turner that echoes the best of Hitchcock. Jonah Stem, a young medical resident at St. Agatha's, a midtown Manhattan teaching hospital, heroically intervenes when he encounters an attractive woman desperately fleeing a knife-wielding assailant early one morning on a street near Times Square. After Stem kills the man in self-defense, he enjoys a brief celebrity, but his life soon becomes complicated when the woman he rescued, Eve Gones, seeks him out and the two begin a frenzied affair. Taken aback by Gones's masochism, Stem attempts to end the relationship, but soon finds himself stalked relentlessly. Kellerman artfully conveys Stem's descent into near madness, making the step-by-step degradation of a decent man who was in the wrong place at the wrong time plausible and chilling. Author tour.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Scott Brick delivers a chilling performance as Jonah Stem, a sleep-deprived medical student. Brick's ominous tones make Jonah's life seem hellish from the start, and it gets worse after he saves a stranger named Eve from an attacker. For a time, Jonah becomes a media hero, and Brick reflects Jonah's dismay at the fuss. When he gets romantically involved with Eve and she proves to be as unstable as nitroglycerin, Brick convinces listeners that Jonah's rotation in the colorectal ward is a walk in the park compared to coping with Eve's ruthlessness. Relationship paranoia has rarely been as suspenseful, especially as delivered in Brick's riveting narration. Jonah's situation is proof that no good deed goes unpunished. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

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