‘Bedlam’ by LJ Ross

My Review (5 stars out of 5)

While lecturing in the US, forensic psychologist and criminal profiler Dr Alexander Gregory is invited to help the New York State Homicide Squad. The wife of a notorious Mafia boss has been admitted to a private psychiatric hospital. The FBI is concerned she won’t be able to follow through with her promise to testify against her husband. In a bid to extricate her from the hospital, Dr Gregory is also admitted, masquerading as an inmate. But how will Alex cope with being on the other side of the doctor/patient divide?

Set in a remote hospital in the Catskill Forest, this is book three in the Dr Alex Gregory series. It’s interesting to see how he deals with the daily round of sessions with the psychiatrist – especially given his own difficult relationship with his mother. But the real trouble starts when Alex finds his contacts on the outside have stopped answering the phone. Unable to talk to anyone, and not knowing who to trust, Alex is eventually forced to confide in someone. But things take a dangerous turn when the Mafia boss’s wife is attacked.

This was a bit of a slow burner to begin with but nevertheless an enjoyable tale that has an exciting denouement amid a gradually unravelling mystery. The author keeps the plot bubbling away as Alex is thrown from one dangerous situation to another.

An interesting and entertaining tale that sheds more light on Dr Gregory’s troubled past.

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