Review: The Recipient by Audrey J Cole

The Recipient by Audrey J Cole

GENRE:   Thriller 

BLURB:

A year after serial killer Michael Rhodes is executed and allowed to donate part of his brain as an organ transplant, Sergeant Wade McKinnon gets called to a murder scene that shares uncanny similarities to those of the late Michael Rhodes. Other similar killings happen around Seattle, and Wade seems to be the only person still alive who knows enough about Michael Rhodes’s murders to be able to replicate them. When evidence found at one of the crime scenes points to Wade as the killer, he races to find the real culprit before it’s too late to clear his own name. Elle is overjoyed when her husband, Brian, gets a second chance at life when he receives a partial brain transplant after suffering a debilitating stroke at the age of thirty-seven. Their lives seem to return to normal, but Elle notices a disturbing change in Brian’s behavior. When Elle learns that her husband’s brain cell transplant came from Michael Rhodes, she fears that Brian now has the mind of a serial killer.

  Excerpt:

Goosebumps formed on her arms. She remembered it being all over the news when Michael Rhodes was executed and knew it was around the same time that Brian received his transplant. But it had never occurred to her that Brian’s transplant could have come from him. She went to the computer nook just off the kitchen and opened her laptop. She ran a Google search for “Michael Rhodes organ donor.” A list of news articles came up, all of them dated just over a year before. She clicked on an article from Seattle’s biggest news station. A video played at the top of the article, and Elle recognized the blonde reporter who appeared with a breaking news story. Elle turned up the volume on the laptop. “Today, for the first time in our nation’s history, a convicted killer on death row will be allowed to donate his organs after his execution. A medical transport team will be standing by to connect the prisoner to ECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, after he is pronounced clinically dead. His body will then be airlifted to Harborview Medical Center.” Elle closed the laptop and lifted the paper towel from her cut finger. Still bleeding. She reapplied the pressure and stared down at her computer. The late nights. Brian’s strange behavior. The lies. What if he wasn’t having an affair after all? What if Michael Rhodes’s brain cells had somehow changed Brian into a different person? No, she told herself, that wasn’t possible. If it were, it would mean I am married to a serial killer. 

AUTHOR Bio

Audrey J. Cole is a registered nurse and a writer of thrillers set in Seattle. Although born and raised in the Seattle area, Audrey now lives with her husband and daughter in Port Stephens, Australia. She maintains a blog for aspiring authors and is currently writing a psychological thriller. 

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Recipient by Audrey J. Cole
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Wow I am still coming down from the adrenaline of this book! As a first time read of a Audrey Cole book I can tell you I will be coming back for more. This book is beyond wonderful. I was hooked from page one and could not put this book down. This book is full of suspense and thrills. I am already looking forward to Emerald City Thriller!!!

Elle married one man a couple years ago recently he has been acting very very strange. It's like he has became another person not at all the man she married. He has been coming home late, smelling of other women's perfume, lying about where he has been. Is he cheating or is there something more going on. Elle could even be just imagining this herself considering her mother was mentally ill and use to hallucinate.

Wade thought he was done with the serial killer from Seattle. He watched the man die. So how can these murders be the exact replica of the murders? Wade has got to figure out who is behind these murders because they are starting to seem personal and well he doesn't know why anyone would have a grudge against him other than a dead man.

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