The Hospital is an exciting and riveting thriller by bestselling author Leslie Wolfe.
Up and coming actress Emma Duncan wakes up in a strange environment. Her eyes will not open and body will not do her bidding. Essentially blind and immobile, she is confused and frightened, but she vaguely remembers escaping a vicious attack. Based on the sounds around her, she realizes that she is in a hospital. CLICK TO BUY AT AMAZON
Baldwin Memorial is confirmed by the attending physician, Dr. Sokolowski, who suggests that she was admitted following an accident. Her brain injury can result in amnesia, distorted thinking and muddled memories while she is recuperating.
Helpless and incapable of anything else, all Emma can do is think, and dream. She is alone, not knowing what really happened. Snippets of a stalker and the attack overtake her thoughts and haunt her dreams, but they are without frames of reference or identifying characteristics. Are they real, or the distortions of a damaged brain?
Emma’s very life depends n her ability to sort out the truth. Trapped in her own body, she is terrified that the stalker will return to finish the job. She has forgotten even major details of her life, including that her husband is now her ex. Steve and his perky new girlfriend are trying to take everything she has worked so hard to achieve. Increasingly paranoid, Emma does not know who to trust, including old friends and the kind nurses who take care of her every need.
Wolfe does an excellent job of creating tension and timing pieces of the backstory to keep us guessing and continually on our toes. She holds our attention while she skillfully puts the reader in Emma’s head, thinking her thoughts, feeling her fears and experiencing her doubts. Hers is definitely a frightening situation.
What happens will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Be on the lookout for this and other reads by the talented Leslie Wolfe.
The Hospital
Leslie Wolfe
Grand Central Publishing 2025
320 pages
J Curran
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