Having an unnaturally acute sense of hearing makes Richard Keene’s life seem unbearable at times.  As a child, Richard heard his neighbor girl being murdered by her father, but nobody would listen and eventually his parents had him committed to a mental hospital to try to “fix” him.  Now Richard is an adult and after hearing what sounds like a woman being strangled in an apartment in his building, Richard decides that he has to take matters into his own hands and prove that what he heard was real and not the product of an overactive imagination.  The problem is finding someone who will listen to him without just assuming he is a lunatic. 

SOUND OF MIND has a great plotline; however, that is not enough to make it a good read.  This book drowns the reader in detail to the point of losing sight of what is going on at times.  At times the story jumps from present day to Richard’s childhood, and most of the time these flashbacks give insight to his state of mind in the present; however, they are also too wordy and tend to drag the story down.  There are several scenes of other characters going about their everyday lives making the reader think that it will somehow relate to the overall picture but in the end, they do not.  This reviewer had a very difficult time staying interested in this book and felt that the pacing of the story suffered greatly due to all the minute details.

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