JACKSONVILLE, Texas, May 7, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- President elect Heidi Carlson is a former senator, first lady, and now America's first woman chief executive and she has committed suicide. Carlson is the third woman of international prominence to commit suicide in the past six months with evidence supporting the suicide theories, but investigators Angel and Tai think otherwise in the stunning new novel Deadly Trance (now available through 1stBooks), by Pat Cornelison.
Angel, the Centre's lead profiler, is convinced that the deaths, which include Carlson, Dame Beatrice Thornbury, former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Mai Ling Chung, granddaughter of China's president and wife of mayor of Shanghai, are not suicides. She feels they are due to the macabre labor of a very clever serial killer. However, the Centre's founder, director and Angel's godfather/mentor, Damien, isn't buying the hypothesis. How can suicide be murder?
As Angel and Tai work on the hunch, Damien is unexpectedly catapulted into the spotlight of their investigation as the primary suspect. He is the sole individual on the planet having the skills, access, and opportunity necessary to commit the crimes. Suddenly, Angel and Tai aren't just frantically trying to identify and apprehend the serial killer before he strikes again, but they're trying to prove Damien's innocence as well. What complicates matters is that Damien isn't helping. The investigation is raising questions about Damien's past that he doesn't want answered. Who is the killer? The answers will mesmerize at the end of Deadly Trance.
Cornelison, a self proclaimed "arm chair" psychologist, has been intrigued with the human psyche as long as she's been capable of cognitive thought. Cornelison is a native Texan and business development consultant. She splits her time between her career and "writing weekends at Backroads," a place she calls "a little bit of heaven" located on a small lake in the woods of east Texas.
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