"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER
Dr. Morton Hander practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among
his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation.
Hander paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his
luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads,
but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn.
"An engrossing thriller . . . This knockout of an entertainment is
the kind of book which establishes a career in one
stroke."--"Newsday"
It's psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job to try to unlock the
terrible secret buried in Meldoy's memory. But as the sinister
shadows in the girl's mind begin to take shape, Alex discovers that
the mystery touches a shocking incident in his own past. And behind
it lies an unspeakable evil that Alex Delaware must expose before
it claims another innocent victim.