Tanya Bigelow contacts Dr. Alex Delaware for a therapy
session because her mother, Patty, on her death bed, has
confessed to killing someone. Tanya feels Alex is the only
one she can trust to help her. Alex promises Tanya he will
look into Patty's claims; he begins with her co-workers and
his file of sessions with Tanya when she was a child.
Alex's investigation uncovers a web of deceit and violent
crimes that stretch over nine years, beginning with Patty's
obsession of providing for Tanya. With every decision she
makes, she sets the course for the inevitable ending. Each
lead Alex follows is more confusing and difficult to grasp
than the one before. The truth will surprise them all.
I was pleasantly surprised and totally intrigued with the
refreshing writing style of this crime novel. At first, I
had a hard time figuring out the flow, but once I got it, I
could not put the book down. I became obsessed with trying
to figure out where the author was going next in the
investigation.
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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