Private Eyes

The voice belongs to a woman, but Dr. Alex??Delaware remembers a little girl. It is eleven??years since seven-years-old Melissa Dickinson dialed??a hospital help line for comfort--and found it in??therapy with Alex Delaware. Now the lovely young??heiress is desperately calling for psychologist's??help once more. Only this time it looks like??Melissa's deepest childhood nightmare is really??coming true ...??Twenty years ago, Gina Dickinson, Melissa's??mother, suffered a grisly assault that left the budding??actress irreparably scarred and emotionally??crippled. Now her acid-wielding assailant is out of??prison and back in L.A.--and Melissa is terrified??that the monster has returned to hurt Gina again.??But before Alex Delaware??can even begin to soothe his former patient's??fears, Gina, a recluse for twenty, disappears. And??now, unless Delaware turns crack detective to??uncover the truth, Gina Dickinson will be just one??more victim of a cold fury that has already spawned??madness--and murder.

Jonathan Kellerman is one of the world’s most popular authors. He has brought his expertise as a clinical psychologist to more than thirty bestselling crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The Butcher’s Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, and True Detectives. With his wife, the novelist Faye Kellerman, he co-authored the bestsellers Double Homicide and Capital Crimes. He is the author of numerous essays, short stories, scientific articles, two children’s books, and three volumes of psychology, including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children, as well as the lavishly illustrated With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars. He has won the Goldwyn, Edgar, and Anthony awards and has been nominated for a Shamus Award. Jonathan and Faye Kellerman live in California, New Mexico, and New York. Their four children include the novelists Jesse Kellerman and Aliza Kellerman.