"Been a while since I had me a nice little whodunit," Milo Sturgis tells Alex Delaware. On a lonely lover's lane in the hills of Los Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each bears a single gunshot wound to the head. But the female victim has also been impaled by a metal spike. And that savage stroke of psychopathic fury tells Milo this case will call for more than standard police procedure. The dead woman remains unidentified and seemingly unknown to everyone. But her companion has a name: Gavin Quick -- and his troubled past eventually landed him on a therapist's couch. It's there that Delaware hopes to find vital clues. And that means going head-to-head with Dr. Mary Lou Koppel, a popular celebrity psychologist who fiercely guards the privacy of her clients...dead or alive. But when there's another gruesomely familiar murder, Delaware surmises that his investigation has struck a nerve. As he trolls the twisted wreckage of Quick's tormented last days, what he finds isn't madness, but the cold-blooded method behind it. And as he follows a chain of greed, corruption, betrayal, and hate snaking hideously through the profession he thought he knew, he'll discover territory where even he never dreamed of treading. Jonathan Kellerman is one of the world's most popular authors. He has brought his expertise as a clinical psychologist to numerous bestselling tales of suspense including the Alex Delaware novels. He is also the author of numerous essays, short stories, and scientific articles, two children's books, and three volumes of psychology. He has won the Goldwyn, EdgarSM, and Anthony awards, and has been nominated for a Shamus Award. He and his wife, the novelist Faye Kellerman, have four children.
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