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 yearsโbut her problems go beyond hyper-maturity. Patty Bigelow, Tanyaโs aunt and adoptive mother, has made a deathbed confession of murder and urged the young woman to seek Delawareโs help. The doctor recalls Patty as a selfless E.R. nurse struggling to raise a child on her ownโ a woman seemingly incapable of the โterrible thingโ she has admitted. But for Tanyaโs 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.โs sleaziest low-rent districts to its overblown mansions, retracing Patty and Tanyaโs 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 secretsโand bodiesโare buried. As the tension mounts, Delaware and Sturgis uncover a tangled history of desperation, vengeance, and deathโa legacy of evil that refuses to die.
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