The Night Bird was fantastically twisty, incredibly creepy and undeniably un-put-downable.  I am very picky when it comes to crime/police procedurals,  so I try to do a fair amount of review research before I start one.  The Night Bird had one of the most intriguing summaries, and a million great reviews, so I could’t push it off any longer.

The story circles around two main characters, Frost Easton and Dr. Francis Stein.  Across the city,  young women are suddenly losing their minds and unexplainedly killing themselves.  Frost arrives at the scene of a girl who jumped off a bridge and is now convinced that the previous suicides are all linked – and maybe not really suicides.  The first thing he notices about both victims is their shared connection in receiving treatment from renowned memory psychiatrist, Dr. Frankie Stein.

Dr. Stein is the leader in her field of memory transmuataion.  She has discovered how to condition her patients through multiple sessions so they can rid themselves of their phobias.  In most cases, she completely changes or removes the harmful memories causing their fears.  She is met with opposition, some people claiming she is trying to play God, but feels her work has made such fantastic changes in her clients’ lives.  When she is contacted by Forst inquiring about her practice, she can’t imagine that her methods are causing the suicides.  But after another woman loses her mind at a club and runs into traffic, Frankie doesn’t know what to believe.

This book is deliciously suspenseful, psychologically intriguing and full of twists.