Bo Bradley 05-The Dollmaker's Daughters

✍ Scribed by Padgett, Abigail

• Book ID: 109197580
• Publisher: Mysterious Pr
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 152 KB
• Series: Bo Bradley 5
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Social worker Bo Bradley takes the case of a 15-year-old nearly catatonic with fear.

Amazon.com Review

Some of the surprise of having a heroine who keeps her manic depression under control with medication while working for a public agency that protects children has gone in this fifth book in the series, but Abigail Padgett's Bo Bradley is still an original and fascinating character. When a 15-year-old in foster care is found in a catatonic state at a vampire-themed teenage hangout, Bo breaks the rules to befriend the child and digs up a sordid saga of abuse that reaches into her own agency. Past Padgetts available in paperback include Child of Silence, Moonbird Boy, Strawgirl, and Turtle Baby.

From Publishers Weekly

Bo Bradley, 41, works for San Diego's Child Protective Services and suffers from a manic-depressive illness which she controls with medication. Bo's fifth appearance (following Moonbird Boy, 1996) is an uneven tale in which the investigator draws on her own experience, as she has in the previous entries in this generally commendable series, to establish rapport with others who are troubled. Here, she reaches out to 15-year-old Janny Malcolm, a child in foster care who is found in a catatonic state at a popular vampire-theme club. A battered antique doll is chained to Janny's wrist. Against all departmental rules, Bo befriends Janny and picks up a 13-year-long trail of child abuse, deceit and murder that may involve the Child Protective Services at the highest level. And when Bo discovers that her fusty and judgmental supervisor has secretly attended the closed funeral of Janny's identical twin (dead after 13 years in an assault-induced coma), her investigative instincts get into high hear. This story is rich in atmosphere, and Bo, with her heightened psychological insight and empathy, makes a compelling sleuth. But melodramatic plot twists and an excess of bizarre behavior explained in mini-avalanches of psychobabble interrupt the suspense and continually knock the narrative off its track. Author tour.
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