Why would a nurse s aide terrified of heights hurl herself from a 20th story rooftop in Queens? Why would an attractive librarian with a water phobia be found naked and floating face-down in the Astoria Park swimming pool? How did the scantily clad body of a young bookstore clerk with a horror of snakes end up inside a Central Park Zoo cage with a 200-pound python? NYPD Detective Max Segal, strung out from a devastating divorce, is determined to find the killer before more women die.
A sadistic ex-con who masquerades as a shrink is seducing phobic women into psychic hell and literally scaring them to death. When Max Segal picks up the killer s trail, Max s new girlfriend is chosen to become victim number four.
Like "Love Kills" and "Exes," Dan Greenburg s previous bestselling thrillers, "Fear Itself" is a terrifyingly realistic, darkly humorous, startlingly sexy, street-tough thriller with a surprising climax.
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