Unnatural Instinct

Jessica Coran #9

by Robert W. Walker

Dr. Jessica Coran faces the most terrifying challenge of her career when her professional adversary, a criminal court judge, is kidnapped by a deranged man with an unnatural instinct for revenge... On an isolated Iowa farm, a madman sits in judgment. In a grotesque mockery of the law, he prepares to deliver a twisted form of justice. The accused stands before him- Judge Maureen DeCampe--guilty as charged. Her sentence will be death. Unforgiving, painful, and slow. No one can stop these wheels of justice. Not even Dr. Jessica Coran. For her, the nightmare is just beginning. Court is now in session... (This book is ninth in Robert W. Walker's Instinct series. It was originally published in paperback.) About the Author Robert W. Walker is the author of more than forty thriller novels, including 11 books in the acclaimed INSTINCT series featuring FBI medical examiner Jessica Coran. Praise for Robert W. Walker "Masterful." -- Clive Cussler "Ingenious." -- San Francisco Examiner "Gruesome." -- The Sunday Oklahoman "Frightening." -- Midwest Book Review." "Bone-chilling." -- Publisher's Weekly "Perfect for Patricia Cornwell fans." -- Mystery Scene "Walker is a master at the top of his game." -- Jack Kilborn

Genres: Mystery, Thriller

320 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Aka Geoffrey Caine, Glenn Hale, Evan Kingsbury, Stephen Robertson

Master of suspense and bone-chilling terror, Robert W. Walker, BS and MS in English Education, Northwestern University, has penned 44 novels and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. Showing no signs of slowing down, he is currently juggling not one but three new series ideas, and has completed a film script and a TV treatment. Having grown up in Chicago and having been born in the shadow of the Shiloh battlefield, near Corinth, Mississippi, Walker has two writing traditions to uphold--the Windy City one and the Southern one--all of which makes him uniquely suited to write City for Ransom and its sequels, Shadows in White City and City of the Absent. His Dead On will be published in July 2009. Walker is currently working on a new romantic-suspense-historical-mainstream novel, titled Children of Salem. In 2003 and 2004 Walker saw an unprecedented seven novels released on the "unsuspecting public," as he puts it. Final Edge, Grave Instinct, and Absolute Instinct were published in 2004. City of the Absent debuted in 2008 from Avon. Walker lives in Charleston, West Virginia.

Reviews

[John k Boudinot · Rating 5 out of 5]

Terrific read

Another great book by Walker. It is very entertaining and a fast read. I highly recommend it for all Dr Coran fans.

[Jarek · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting premise wasted by particularly bad writing. The narrative was repetitive, difficult to follow, and on many occasions simply boring. The final raid was described as such a festival of incompetence, that if I was a law enforcement officer I would be genuinely insulted. The whole story reads as if a cheap romance author tried to write a detective novel and failed miserably.

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is ANOTHER series, but a good one!

[Elaine]

# 9 in the Jessica Coran series