Here Comes the Bride .............

Readers Beware , if you are looking for a nice, romantic and happy read and thought "oh, that title sounds fluffy" well stop right there, today's review is anything but fluffy.

Continuing on from the topic yesterday on Edgy Christian Fiction , I joined a few networking sites for like minded readers,writers etc in this genre and today's book falls into that Genre and is written by one of my favourite ECF male writers "Ted Dekker".

His books tend to always contain some sort of Supernatural feel or a Murder Mystery even the occasional Mental Illness chucked into the mix e.g Three , Obsessed , Burn , Adam , Showdown etc "Just to name a few titles".

Review : The Bride Collector - Ted Dekker- 2010

"The Beauty Eden is lost
Where intelligence does centered
I came to her and she smashed da Serpent head
I searched and find the seventh and beautiful
She will rest in my Serpent's hole
And I will live again "

The FBI have a serial killer on their hands , nicknamed as The Bride Collector -he collects and kills beautiful women posing them with just a wedding veil and ever so nicely that they look like angels. FBI Brad Raines is at a dead-end when they reach the fourth victim ( only three more to go) he decides it's time to seek out some help from the outside. This takes him to a Mental Institution where he meets a group of intelligent mental illness patients.
Brad is drawn to one of the patients Paradise who has the gift of visions , though for Paradise it has turned more into a curse as she was diagnosed with having hallucinations as in the world of science and health , there are no such things as visions - it's all in your head.
As the story progresses , with the help of these patients - Brad becomes closer in solving the case as they enter the Bride Collector's fantasy. When things start becoming more and more dangerous , can Brad pull Paradise out of the search or has he pushed her limits and drawn her deeper within ?
What happens when Paradise and the Bride Collector meet and it is revealed that they knew each other from years gone by and what happens when all is revealed that Paradise is actually in fact is choice for the final Victim ?
Find out in this wonderful mystery/thriller novel written by Ted Dekker . It will draw you in slowly and by the middle of the book have you hooked and wanting more as you read page by page.