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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The voice belongs to a woman, but Dr. Alex Delaware remembers a little girl. It is eleven years since seven-year-old Melissa Dickinson dialed the hospital help line for comfortand found it in therapy with Alex Delaware. Now the lovely young heiress is desperately calling for the psychologists help once more. Only this time it looks like Melissas deepest childhood nightmare is really coming true. A page-turner from beginning to end.Los Angeles Times Twenty years ago, Gina Dickinson, Melissas 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.
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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 and New Mexico. Their four children include the novelist Jesse Kellerman.
