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Grieving over the death of her aunt, the woman who had raised her, and haunted by her aunt's deathbed confession of murder, young Tanya enlists the assistance of her former counselor, Dr. Alex Delaware, and LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis to unravel the truth about a dark secret from the past that could have deadly repercussions in the present.

"Psychologist Alex Delaware and Homicide Detective Milo Sturgis race against time to find a twisted killer in this riveting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling 'master of suspense' (Los Angeles Times)."-- Provided by publisher.

Unraveling the madness behind L.A.'s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. By all accounts, acid-tongued Vita Berlin hadn't a friend in the world, but whom did she cross so badly as to end up arranged in such a grotesque tableau? One look at her apartment-turned-charnel house prompts hard-bitten LAPD detective Milo Sturgis to summon his go-to expert in hunting homicidal maniacs, Alex Delaware. But...

Devastated and suspected by the police after the brutal murder of his girlfriend, psychologist Jeremy Carrier finds himself engaged in a game of cat and mouse when additional murders take place and clues begin appearing in his mail.

"Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis must uncover the connection between a brutally murdered psychologist and a victim they're unable to identify in this electrifying thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. Two burly movers are heading back into Los Angeles from the dusty wasteland of Ojai when they hit a man--a naked man who appears out of nowhere. Master detective Milo Sturgis is called to the scene and senses immediately...

Psychologist Alex Delaware is stunned when Rand Duchay, one of his patients, whom he has been treating since his release from prison for the killing of a young boy as a teenager, asks for a meeting to confide a dangerous secret to him, only to turn up dead before their arranged rendezvous, a murder that could hold the key to horrifying secrets from the past.

"This one looked like a slam dunk: a young woman found dead at her kitchen table, DNA on cigarette butts linking quickly to an ex-boyfriend with a criminal record. Or so Homicide Lieutenant Milo Sturgis thought. Then everything changed and a quick close turned into a mind-bending whodunit. That's when Milo called in psychologist Alex Delaware, his best friend and a long-term consultant on "those cases." The ones that are different. Then there's another...

A new series, the first to be co-written by the best-selling husband and wife, features a reversible format and includes the tales, "In the Land of the Giants," in which Boston detectives MacCain and Sylvestor investigate the murder of a basketball star; and "Still Life," in which the murder of a Santa Fe art gallery employee is examined by detectives Darryl Two Moons and Steve Katz.

Called in as a consultant for a possible child-abuse case, child psychologist Alex Delaware begins to suspect that the hospital has come under the sway of Chuck Jones, the financial whiz administrator who seems overly interested in profits.

Milo and Alex investigate the murders of a young couple murdered in flagrante and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace, found in the half-built skeleton of a monstrously vulgar mansion in one of L.A.'s toniest neighborhoods. The female victim is unknown, the male eco-friendly architect Desmond Backer who disdains the sort of grandiose superstructure he is found in. When the investigation veers suddenly in a startling direction, it's the investigators...