A CIRCLE OF SOULS

A CIRCLE OF SOULS by Preetham Grandhi

From the back of the book:

The sleepy town of Newbury, Connecticut, is shocked when a little girl is found brutally murdered.  The town's top detective, perplexed by a complete lack of leads, calls in FBI agent Leia Bines, an expert in cases involving children.

Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Gram, a psychiatrist at Newbury's hospital, searches desperately for the cause of seven-year-old Naya Hastings's devastating nightmares.  Afraid that she might hurt herself in the midst of a torturous episode, Naya's parents have turned to the bright young doctor as their only hope.

The situations confronting Leia and Peter converge when Naya begins drawing chilling images of murder after being bombarded by the disturbing images in her dreams.  Amazingly, her sketches are the only clues to the crime that has panicked Newbury residents.  Against her better judgment, Leia explores the clues in Naya's crude drawings, only to set off an alarming chain of events.

In this stunning psychological thriller, innocence gives way to evil, and trust lies forgotten in a web of deceit, fear, and murder.

I was sent this book by the author about a year or so ago.  I apologize to Dr. Grandhi for not reading this sooner.  I really enjoyed this book.  I didn't want to put this one down.  I had to know what would happen next.  How frightening it must have been for Naya to have these dreams and not understand their meaning.  These dreams were the only clues the police and FBI had to help them solve this case, and also a very similar case from years before.

This was a debut novel for Dr. Grandhi, but it read like he had been writing for a while.  A clear story line that moved from incident to incident without losing its way.  I'll be on the lookout for further books by Dr. Grandhi.