Alex Delaware Series, #21
Ballantine
April 2007
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Featuring: Alex Delaware; Tanya Bigelow; Milo Sturgis
ISBN: 0345452631 EAN: 9780345452634 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, at nineteen, she still seems older than her yearsβbut her problems go beyond hyper-maturity. Patty Bigelow, Tanyaβs aunt and adoptive mother, has made a deathbed confession of murder and urged the young woman to seek Delawareβs help. The doctor recalls Patty as a selfless E.R. nurse struggling to raise a child on her ownβ a woman seemingly incapable of the βterrible thingβ she has admitted. But for Tanyaβs peace of mind, Delaware agrees to investigate, and he enlists LAPD detective Milo Sturgis in the search for the phantom victim of a crime that may never have occurred.
Armed with only the vaguest details, psychologist and cop follow a trail twisting from L.A.βs sleaziest low-rent districts to its overblown mansions, retracing Patty and Tanyaβs nomadic and increasingly puzzling life to the doorsteps of a sullen heroin addict; a randy real-estate broker; and a brilliant, enigmatic physics student. Suddenly a very real murder tears open a terrifying tunnel into the past, where secretsβand bodiesβare buried. As the tension mounts, Delaware and Sturgis uncover a tangled history of desperation, vengeance, and deathβa legacy of evil that refuses to die.
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