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
years–but her problems go beyond hyper-maturity. Patty
Bigelow, Tanya’s aunt and adoptive mother, has made a
deathbed confession of murder and urged the young woman to
seek Delaware’s help. The doctor recalls Patty as a
selfless E.R. nurse struggling to raise a child on her own–
a woman seemingly incapable of the “terrible thing” she has
admitted. But for Tanya’s 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.’s sleaziest low-rent
districts to its overblown mansions, retracing Patty and
Tanya’s 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 secrets–and bodies–are buried. As the
tension mounts, Delaware and Sturgis uncover a tangled
history of desperation, vengeance, and death–a legacy of
evil that refuses to die.
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