This book was truly disappointing. As someone who works in mental health, I was expecting to enjoy the character study of a sociopath. What I got instead was a very basic and surface-level mental health drama. The main character exhibits no professional boundaries and leaves reader questioning why he is the protagonist, making one ridiculous choice after another then wondering why he is having poor outcomes. I was bored Reading this book and only finished it because I paid 12.99 for it!

I saw this book at Walmart and picked it up because the cover was intriguing. Once I read the back and I know this is exactly the type of book I love, so I rented it from the library. When reading it I had no idea all the twists and turns and adventures this book would take me it. It kept surprising me and I constantly had no idea what to expect. I suggest this book to everyone! Especially people that like murder books, suspense and mystery."Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit

Great book, great read and well worth the time and money. But, the hardest part of reaching the point where no one reins in your imagination is knowing when you reached the end twenty pages before you stop typing. Sometimes an author goes one step too far when they get to the end. And when the author is a bestseller, it's often hard for an editor to tell them to stop-- enough is enough. As an author, I've experienced the desire to keep adding another twist, another turn. A rule I've learned is:

Oh-so-chilling story of a self-proclaimed sociopath. A panel of those. An explosive story if there ever was one. Don't want to spoil it but a reader is due for a load of surprises!Q:I’m a sociopath. I look normal, but I’m not. I’m smarter, better, and freer, because I’m not bound by rules, law, emotion, or regard for you.I can read you almost immediately, get your number right away, and push your buttons to make you do whatever I want. I don’t really like you, but I’m so good at acting as if I d...

lowest rating I've ever given a book I've finished reading. low rating due to:**Corny, ridiculous, and unbelievable dialogue between Laurie, Paul, and Eric**irrelevant details weighing down the story...serving no purpose except to annoy the 'reader and increase the word count**unbelievable main character

Although I have never read the work of Lisa Scottoline, when a friend requested that I buddy read this book, I jumped at the opportunity. I came into this piece free from influence or expectations, but have come to feel strongly about the author’s work. Dr. Eric Parrish is the Head of Psychiatry at a rural Pennsylvania hospital, juggling a busy patient load on the ward, as well as in a private practice. When he is called down to the Emergency Department, he meets Max Jakubowski, a teenager who h...

I had only ever read one Lisa Scottoline book before this one, and I can remember it as being okay, just. So Every Fifteen Minutes was a very pleasant surprise.Having trained as a psychiatric nurse way back when, I am inexorably drawn to anything to do with psychiatry, mental institutions, mental instability. And Every Fifteen Minutes has all of this in spades. I started off thinking that this was merely an okay book, but as I got further into it I became engrossed in it. There are twists and tu...

First off I won this as and ARC from Goodreads, so yay me!I wanted to love this book but alas that was not the case. The main character, Dr. Parrish is the most ridiculous doctor I have ever read about.This is the story of Dr. Eric Parrish, Chief of the Psychiatric department at Havenmeyer General Hospital or HGH. He is loved by his staff and the board of directors because he has almost singlehandedly made the unit the most talked about psychiatric hospital/unit in the area for the way they trea...

www.melissa413readsalot.blogspot.comI started out loving this book. I could not put it down! But then some of the things that Dr. Eric Parrish let his soon-to-be ex-wife do to him started getting on my nerves. And the fact that he did nothing over the sexual harassment he was getting from a student at his hospital. All of that stuff just went on and on until they blew up in his face and I wanted to throw the book across the room. But.... I kept going because I wanted to know what the outcome wou...

It is easy to see why this book has been on the bestseller list so long. Scottoline has written a dynamite mystery with a sympathetic protagonist, lots of believably suspicious characters, and ongoing suspense over the identity of the sociopath.Every Fifteen Minutes is so engrossing readers will be flipping the (literal or e-book) pages past midnight in their race to the end.

I was lucky enough to win and receive this book through GoodReads FirstReads Giveaway Program. Thank you!This was the first book I read by this author and I loved it. The twists in this book were exciting and unexpected. There were a couple of things I never saw coming and when I thought I had it all figured out, there was another twist! Such an amazing suspense book. Great ending too- once again, I was shocked.

Dr. Eric Parrish, Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer Hospital in Philadelphia, is enjoying the fruits of his labor at work. His hospital has even earned an award for its performance, which many credit him for.His personal life, however, is at an all-time low. His wife Caitlyn has left him, and she is doing sneaky things with regard to his visitation with their daughter Hannah. Eric realizes that she has a new boyfriend, and this probably explains a lot about her new attitude.Then Eric is...

There were exciting parts of this book, but mostly I just found it unbelievable and overly wordy. The first 150 pages are just more and more examples of the shining example of humanity Eric is. The best and most devoted doctor, a fantastic father and better parent than that ex-wife, with whom of course he would have worked everything out if only she wasn't determined to leave, a great friend, extremely moral, etc, etc. It was really excessive. And the writing is clunky and verbose. As Eric made

Watch for this novel on April 14, 2015Have you ever read a book that stayed with you during the day while you were working, or going about your daily routine? A book that made you want to turn on the news to see what’s happening in the character’s lives – even though you KNOW you are just reading a novel? Lisa Scottoline’s “Every Fifteen Minutes” made me do just that! Poor Dr. Eric Parish, Chief of Psychiatry, with his personal and professional lives going up and down in quick succession! You wa...

The World Is Probably Out To Get YouLisa Scottoline knows how to write a satisfying mystery. Just the right mix of prosaic detail, humour, and pace. There is a downside however: sociopathy is revealed as potentially everywhere, in your spouse, your colleagues, your friends, and (if you’re a shrink) your clients. So, if you aren’t already a bit mentally unstable, Every Fifteen Minutes may push you over the edge of paranoia. If you feel really comfortable with the idea of essential human goodness,...

The marketing hook for this novel is that the main character has been targeted by a sociopath, and in my case, the advertising worked. This was the first Lisa Scottoline novel I've read, and I picked it up because it sounded like a good thriller."I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter, better, and freer, because I'm not bound by rules, law, emotion, or regard for you. I can read you almost immediately, get your number right away, and push your buttons to make you do whatever I

I was really looking forward to this book! I have read quite a few of Lisa Scottoline's books and am usually quite entertained and usually I'm almost instantly engrossed. I found it harder to get into this one for some reason. I think it may have been a bit too wordy at the beginning? There was a lot of back story, staff meeting info, medical info and more. However, it did pick up speed quickly about a third of the way in. I liked the characters but I really felt that Dr. Parrish was almost a bi...

This is the story of a prestigious young psychiatrist who is chief of psychiatry at a large hospital. He is clear-thinking and full of compassion for his patients. Suddenly his life begins falling apart - he is separated from his wife and has custody issues around his seven year old daughter, and then the sky falls in on his life. He first accused of sexual harassment of a pretty young resident, then put on indefinite leave from his position, all the while trying to treat a young man with a seri...

So having always thoroughly enjoyed Lisa Scottoline’s thrillers I was looking forward to Every Fifteen Minutes and I really loved it – I found it was actually the most addictive novel yet from this author with a really intriguing story, some lovely little twists and turns and some great characters.So Eric Parrish is not having the best time in his personal life – meanwhile in his professional one he has attracted the attention of a dangerously unstable personality – oblivious to this he is walki...

★★½ “You should be more paranoid than you are. Your typical suburban mom worries all the time, but she worries about the wrong things. Because she doesn't worry about me.” I loved how this book started out. It was dark and frightening. An anonymous sociopath narrates in the beginning, warning the reader of his or her existence. I even did a little happy dance. I love the dark stuff...in moderation of course. Every Fifteen Minutes ended up not being that dark in actuality, which is OK. I mean...