Search - Denial (Frank Clevenger Bk. 1)

I know the words "dark," and "page-turner," and "suspenseful" are **always** used when describing books of the mystery/thriller genre, but gosh, here is one heck of a dark, suspenseful page-turner. Ablow has re-invented the genre with his anti-hero Frank Clevenger -- a forensic psychiatrist with more than his share of demons (within and without). The book has several scenes of graphic sexuality which may offend some readers but are essential to character development and plot. Here is a fresh, shocking and exciting read -- better than Kellerman, and that's saying something!

A good book. Dark and sometimes disturbing. I wish the author would have focused more on the crime than the main character's personal life. Some is required but I feel he focused on it too much and not enough on the crime.

Once you got to the second half of the book, it picked up. I didn't care too much for the detail of the character's own life and I figured out the ending before I got 3/4's of the way through.(A bit predictable and redundant)
It was OK, but definately not a favorite.

Great series! Best to read in order.

This is Ablow's 1st novel and it is absolutely outstanding. It shocks you then keeps you tied up in the plot. Recommended. I saw this author on Fox News not knowing his was the book I just finished, he was speaking and giving opinions on OJ. Remarkable man.

Frank Clevenger is a forensic psychiatrist who hates authority, fears intimacy, uses sex as an anesthetic, is tortured by his professional mistakes, and can't free himself from the shadows of a brutal, alcoholic father and an absent, unfeeling mother.

Not a very likeable main character.

pretty good

Interesting book, the protagonist is a much more troubled "hero" than usual. The end took me totally by surprise.

I am so glad I got this book as I read a later book in the series. I was not disappointed - it was better than the last one I read by this author. The ending was a knock out!! I never saw it coming.

AWESOME book & author!!!!!!!!

Real page turner, hard to put down, great read if you like medical/psychological/crime stories.

A series of grisly murders has forensic psychaitrist Frank Clevenger on the case of a lifetime, and rhe fight of his life.