A Cure for Madness by Jodi McIsaac

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ARC kindly provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. 

Clare Campbell has worked hard to create distance between herself and her troubled family. But when she receives news of her parents’ murder, she’s forced to return to the quiet town of Clarkeston, Maine, to arrange their funeral and take legal guardianship of her unpredictable and mentally ill brother, Wes.
While Clare struggles to come to grips with the death of her parents, a terrifying pathogen outbreak overtakes the town. She is all too familiar with the resulting symptoms, which resemble those of her brother’s schizophrenia: hallucinations, paranoia, and bizarre, even violent, behavior. Before long, the government steps in—and one agent takes a special interest in Wes. Clare must make a horrifying decision: save her brother or save the world.

Clare is a copywriter who lives in Seattle but one day she receives the terrible news  that her parents have been murdered by a family friend who seemed to be suffering of some kind of mental illness. Now Clare needs to get back to the town of Clarkeston to prepare her parents' funeral and  take care of her older brother Wes , who is suffering of schizophrenia.  

Wes tells Clare all kind of conspiracy stories but of course that Clare doesn't take him seriously. Soon people start to act odd and Clarkeston gets into quarantine. A new pathogen takes over the town and people start acting like schizophrenics, only this virus is spreading like flu.The authorities are after Wes and they want him locked up back into the psychiatric hospital to conduct more tests on his brain. Wes might be the answer to end this madness . But this comes with drastic consequences .Is Clare able to sacrifice her only brother for the sake of saving countless other people?

Enjoyable read . It got me from the very first chapter and I could't put it down until I was done reading it..