Gray Matter

by Shirley Kennett

Book Overview

A celebrated pianist has been found dead, decapitated by a sharp instrument. Tracking the murdering maniac is psychologist and single mother PJ Gray, who has developed an amazing virtual reality... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575660792
• ISBN13: 9781575660790
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Too many clues so obviously missed by the good guys.

For a first in the series this was a pretty good book. The characters are likable, we all know a cafe owner/waitress like Millie, we all know a sexist cop like Schultz and we know the divorcee-new career-new single parent Mom like PJ. We, if we are lucky, have not met any serial killers like Pauley Mac, The Dog. Although Dr. PJ Gray is supposed to be a computer whiz psychologist and Leo Schultz is supposed to be a 20 year veteran cop, they miss clues that play, dance, hum and hang before their eyes. The killer stands across the counter from them and hums the "Star Spangled Banner" in the same note he did on the crime scene video, and they don't notice. They discuss the case in detail while eating the food he has prepared for them, and considering he lives on a diet of victim's, brains you would think PJ and Leo would be more careful about who cooks for them.

Shirley Kennett Gets & Keeps Your Attention Again!

Her orignal in her great series! Don't miss her 4th in the series of P. J. written under the name of Avery Morgan titled Act of Betrayal!

Highly recommended

I'm a big fan of suspense, so when a friend told me to check out this book, I got it right away because I'm always looking for new authors. This book blew me away! It is one of the best written, most creative, and most suspenseful books I've read, and I've gone through a lot of them. You can't go wrong here. The main character PJ Gray is a real woman, not a cardboard creation, and her sidekick Leo Schultz deserves a series of his own. Kennett provides a view into the mind of one of the most interesting and evil villains I've come across.

Exciting, likable detective for a change

I read Firecracker first then looked for this one. I'm hooked. The good guys are refreshing, Leo is not a drunk with a cigarette dangling from his mouth and PJ is a real life career woman, not a pseudomale in drag. The killer is REAL bad. His killing is not for the squeamish, as if any of it is acceptable. I was riveted. I am not generally a detective novel fancier, but these I like. Look forward to number 3.

This book was just right. Ranks with Thomas Harris.

One of the 5-10 best psychological thrillers I've read. Gory, but fascinating. Good as Red Dragon and Lawrence Sanders's Deadly Sins series.