Publisher's Synopsis
L.A. has more than its fair share of psychopaths, and no one recognises that more than brilliant psychologist Dr Alex Delaware. Despite that, physician Constance Sykes hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by Connie against her sister. And when the court battle between the Sykes sisters erupts into murder, Alex realises he's been snared in a toxic web of pathology. But when the little girl at the centre of the dispute disappears, Alex must work with Detective Milo Sturgis, braving an obstacle course of Hollywood washouts and self-serving jurists, in order to save an innocent life from the darkest impulses of human nature.
