Lost Graces

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Pub Date Nov 04 2024 | Archive Date Nov 24 2024

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Description

Psychiatrist Dr. Nancy Thomas prefers to believe there is no such thing as knowing too much about a human being, but after someone shoots a colleague, her fear mounts, and she learns disturbing secrets that force her to rethink her approach as a therapist.

Despite insurance denials and cautions from a supervisor that Grace and Alan are too ill for her to continue treating safely, Nancy struggles to provide good care. Has her own past clouded her judgement? With her husband away, her children grown and gone, colleagues dying, and her anxiety surging, she fears she may become prey to a serial killer.

Set in the late 1990's in Richmond, Virginia in a landscape of changing health care policies, Lost Graces by Helen Montague Foster was inspired by the city's reactions to the real-life Southside Strangler and Beltway Snipers. This richly imagined psychiatric thriller invites readers into the head of the kind of psychiatrist who does therapy.a

Psychiatrist Dr. Nancy Thomas prefers to believe there is no such thing as knowing too much about a human being, but after someone shoots a colleague, her fear mounts, and she learns disturbing...


A Note From the Publisher

Helen Montague Foster is a poet, novelist, and retired physician, deeply influenced by her many years as a psychiatrist/psychotherapist for people with lives affected by trauma. An early version of her debut novel, The Silent Hen, placed second in the 2020 William Faulkner Literary Competition under the title Crossing the Same Sea. She and her husband live in Virginia and spend much of their time canoeing, hiking, and vicariously enjoying the adventures of their children and grandchildren.

Helen Montague Foster is a poet, novelist, and retired physician, deeply influenced by her many years as a psychiatrist/psychotherapist for people with lives affected by trauma. An early version of...


Advance Praise

"Intellectual themes form the bedrock of the novel, but they never overtake the action so it always feels like a gripping drama with a deeper meaning slowly building underneath." - Readers' Favorite

"Intellectual themes form the bedrock of the novel, but they never overtake the action so it always feels like a gripping drama with a deeper meaning slowly building underneath." - Readers' Favorite


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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9798891324305
PRICE $16.00 (USD)
PAGES 254

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Helen Montague Foster has a strong writing style for this psychiatric thriller element, it had that plot overall and enjoyed the way it worked together. I thought everything was going on and thought the characters were wonderfully done and enjoyed the way they worked in this story.

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