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Forensic psychiatrist Natalie King works with victims and perpetrators of violent crime. Women with a history of abuse, mainly. She rides a Ducati a size too big and wears a tank top a size too small. Likes men but doesn’t want to keep one. And really needs to stay on her medication.
Now she’s being stalked. Anonymous notes, threats, strangers loitering outside her house.
A hostile former patient? Or someone connected with a current case? Georgia Latimer—charged with killing her three children. Travis Hardy—deadbeat father of another murdered child, with a second daughter now missing. Maybe the harassment has something to do with Crown Prosecutor Liam O’Shea—drop-dead sexy, married and trouble in all kinds of ways.
Natalie doesn’t know. Question is, will she find out before it’s too late?
Anne Buist, herself a leading perinatal psychiatrist, has created an edge-of-the-seat mystery with a hot new heroine—backed up by a lifetime of experience with troubled minds.
Anne Buist is the Chair of Women’s Mental Health at the University of Melbourne. She has over twenty-five years' clinical and research experience in perinatal psychiatry, and works with protective services and the legal system in cases of abuse, kidnapping, infanticide and murder. Professor Buist is married to novelist Graeme Simsion and has two children. Her novels featuring forensic psychiatrist Natalie King are Medea’s Curse and Dangerous to Know.
‘A proper plot-twisting page-turner...I was completely gripped.’ Emma Healey, author of Elizabeth is Missing
‘A harrowing and thrilling read, this mystery will keep you on the edge of your seat.’Buzzfeed, Best Australian Books of 2015
‘Buist gives the reader a plot that is original and believable, with more than one twist to keep the reader guessing to the end…This thought-provoking psychological thriller will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned. A brilliant read.’ BookMooch
‘A psychological thriller with all the ingredients.’ Jennifer Byrne, Australian Women’s Weekly
‘Crime novels and thrillers depend on strong investigators whose idiosyncrasies make them distinctive and attractively flawed. Melburnian Anne Buist has ticked these boxes with her creation, Natalie King.’ Herald Sun
‘Forensic psychologist Natalie King is not your average heroine nor is Medea’s Curse a predictable by-the-numbers thriller…An intelligent, thought-provoking tale.’ Courier-Mail
‘Medea’s Curse is a gripping ride of crime and tension, with a Lisbeth Salander-like lead roaring through danger and intrigue at a million miles an hour.’ Adelaide Advertiser
‘Buist has used her twenty-five years’ experience in perinatal psychiatry to good effect in her first psychological thriller…King is a lively new character with a good mix of appealing characteristics and interesting flaws.’ Sydney Morning Herald
‘An effective and engaging crime novel, that handles its issues compassionately, builds tension well and has a fascinating, flawed protagonist. It will be interesting to see what Anne Buist (and Natalie King) do next.’ Aust Crime Fiction
- Sales Rank: #551641 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-01-28
- Released on: 2015-01-28
- Format: Kindle eBook
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'Readers... will cheer the arrival of an authentic dragon slayer.'—Kirkus
About the Author
Anne Buist is the Chair of Women’s Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and has over 25 years clinical and research experience in perinatal psychiatry. She works with Protective Services and the legal system in cases of abuse, kidnapping and murder. Her is husband is novelist Graeme Simsion.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
A brilliant read.
By Cloggie Downunder
Medea’s Curse is the first fiction book by Australian psychiatrist and author, Professor Anne Buist. A stalker is just what Dr Natalie King, forensic psychiatrist, does not need. She is already at loggerheads with Associate Professor Wadhwa over a patient’s diagnosis; Crown Prosecutor Liam O’Shea is dangling an interesting case in front of her nose, a case related to one that she considers a failure on her part; Married-With-Kids-Liam-O’Shea is sexy and charming and Natalie is only half-resisting her lustful impulses; she knows her supervisor, Declan Ryan, will disapprove of both the interesting case and Natalie’s poor adherence to her mood-stabilising medications; and her newest patient is setting off alarm bells in her mind regarding childhood sexual abuse.
What is keeps Natalie on an even keel (most of the time) are her singing gigs with the band, her very private warehouse apartment and a cheeky cockatoo named after Bob Dylan. At first, she dismisses the mildly threatening hand-written note, but as further communications become more intrusive, sophisticated and complex, Natalie becomes concerned. Meanwhile, she also begins to wonder if her cases, some involving mothers accused of infanticide, are related.
Buist’s protagonist is not your typical forensic psychiatrist: with multiple ear piercings, a Ducati 1200, a mental health history of her own and a reluctance to take her meds, Natalie King sings in a rock band and has an avid sexual appetite. Luckily, Buist assures us there will be more of this passionate and edgy new heroine.
Buist includes a funny and, no doubt, highly accurate description of a manic episode from the point of view of the person experiencing it. Her expertise in the mental health field is apparent in every paragraph, and mentions of actual cases that readers will recognise add authenticity. There is quite a bit of jargon, so a glossary of mental health terms might have been helpful.
Buist gives the reader a plot that is original and believable, with more than one twist to keep the reader guessing to the end. Her characters are multi-faceted, and none are quite what they first seem to be; her dialogue is realistic and the subject matter is very topical. This thought-provoking psychological thriller will stay with the reader long after the last page is turned. A brilliant read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
When they say "write what you know" Anne Buist seems to have taken that advice very much to heart
By Amazon Customer
When they say "write what you know" Anne Buist seems to have taken that advice very much to heart, especially when it comes to the clinical and working experience of her central character - Dr Natalie King. Hard to say about the Ducati, history of mental health problems and clothes sense.
MEDEA'S CURSE starts out in extreme acceleration mode with the back story of a contretemps on the steps of the Court, followed by an encounter with Crown Prosecutor (and later sex interest) Liam O'Shea, and the disappearance of a child. The father of the missing child was also the father of a dead baby, one that her mother had pleaded guilty to killing. That mother, Amber Hardy, is in prison, and both O'Shea and King aren't convinced she should be there. Hardy's story, her partner (and the father of both children) Travis, and his new daughter and partner are quickly expanded, along with that of another patient of King's, and from there the cast gets more complicated with work colleagues, fellow band members of King's, O'Shea as a love interest, the drummer of the band as a love interest, a mad cockatoo, the bike and Hardy's own therapist.
Needless to say, in the first half of this book readers will need to be paying attention. There's a lot of characters, a lot of back stories, a lot of interactions and a lot of health and welfare information imparted. King is a complicated person in her own right, what with her own mental health problems; a "friends with benefits" relationship; problems with work colleagues and patients; a strong sexual attraction to O'Shea (despite his being married); her relationship with (and tendency to try to snow) her own therapist; and a reckless disregard for her own safety - not just because she rides the Ducati.
To be fair though, paying really close attention might mean that some flaws become slightly over-obvious. Such as why she's somewhat blasé about her personal safety despite the increasingly threatening behaviour of a stalker. It's doubtful that I was the only reader screaming "security camera's..." for a big part of this book. Whilst it may be that much of the personal jeopardy elements of King's behaviour were not completely unbelievable, they did became increasingly frustrating. And then there was all that pet bird disregard. Okay if you want to put on your security system version of a nightie and high-heels and trip around with a candle fine, but somebody needs to think of the bird!
Of course it is possible that many of the worst of the unbelievable elements were designed specifically to show King's tendency for erratic behaviour. Just as her increasing concern, and involvement in the lives of her patients is designed to show the caring, considerate part, but it did prove a major distraction at points.
On the upside there's certainly nothing wrong with the pace of this plot, as for all it's complications and interwoven elements, it rips along at great speed, and King is an interesting new character on the Australian Crime Fiction scene. Edgy and difficult, complicated and unusual, she's got a lot of potential to be a very welcome addition. Perhaps now that her foibles and strengths have been established, and the pattern of behaviour and craziness established, future books will have a little less of the kitchen sink feel about them. Especially as it's hard to imagine that King's going to be spending any time near anything as mundane as a sink.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Unusually good psychiatric insight into multiple characters!
By Christine Terrell
I would like to thank Net Galley, Text Publishing and Australian author Anne Buist for an advanced copy of Media’s Curse in exchange for an unbiased review.
This is a tough book for me to critique. I believe there may potentially be 5 stars in this excellent debut suspense novel, but the manner in which I read it influenced my opinion to such a degree that I can only award 4 stars.
Let me attempt to explain. I normally read a novel in about 4-5 days. I read this one over 15 days, very long for me. It wasn’t the fault of the book; it was primarily because of other things going on in my life at the time and my need to cut back on reading time. This really affected the flow of the story and made it difficult to just pick up and carry on without the need for backtracking and refreshing myself on who was who, who was related to who, who thought what, what happened to who. There are a lot of characters in this book—a lot. Not only that, the protagonist, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Natalie King, had 3 different clients who were all suspected of killing their children and another young woman who was being abused, and all of these patients had significant others, siblings, parents and step-relatives to keep up with. They all had major psychiatric issues and I had a hard time staying on top of who had what issue, etc. I finally kind of gave up thinking in the last 80% and just went with the story, not bothering to try to figure anything out, which is usually a lot of fun for me. I just couldn’t keep the facts of all these characters straight with other things on my mind. I should have taken notes.
Other than the above, which was my own fault, I really liked the book. Professor Buist is the Chair of Women’s Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and has 25 years of clinical and research experience in psychiatry. She also works in protective services and the legal system in cases of abuse, kidnapping, infanticide and murder. She therefore couldn’t be more qualified to write about a forensic psychiatrist. I was very impressed with how she addressed the psychiatric/psychological issues in the story. She clearly knows her stuff; I was fascinated by the discussions between Dr. King and her supervisor/mentor Declan and between Dr. King and her patients. I really liked Dr. King—she actually struggles with mental issues herself, she often skips her meds (which adds excitement), she rides a gigantic Ducati bike, she sings with a rock band, she is ballsy and not afraid to take chances. She also does a good job of protecting herself. I wasn’t too keen on her “friend with benefits”, the very married Liam O’Shea, Crown Prosecutor, but that’s a minor point. I did like her parrot Bob and her mentor Declan. I would have enjoyed knowing more about how Dr. King has become so damaged, but I imagine that will play out in future books as Medea’s Curse is first in the Dr. Natalie King series. The plot is engrossing and the story actually moves along at a nice clip though again I had too many breaks in my reading to totally appreciate this. There were some nice twists and I was totally surprised how things all fell into place at the end.
If I had to succinctly sum things up (which if you read my reviews regularly you can tell I’m generally not good at), I would say the novel’s top credits include an edgy kickass woman protagonist, captivating intricate plotting, and unusually good psychiatric insight into multiple characters. I highly recommend it to all fans of psychological suspense. But to maintain flow, you can’t take forever to get through it like I did. Will I read book 2? I sure will.
Great job on your debut, Professor Buist!
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