Reluctantly giving up her California practice working with troubled children, Julia Cates is forced to draw on all her skills to deal with a young mute girl found abandoned and terrified in her Pacific Northwest hometown.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Serpentine comes the first thrilling novel in the Alex Delaware series about a psychotic teenage boy accused of six murders.
Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads,...

When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's fresh out of high school, pregnant with her art teacher's baby, and totally on her own. Izzy knows she can be a good mother but without any money or relatives to help, she's left searching. Dr. Grind, an awkwardly charming child psychologist, has spent his life studying family, even after tragedy struck his own. Now, with the help of an eccentric billionaire, he has the chance to create a "perfect...

Psychologist Alex Delaware's attempts to trace the origins of a former patient's breakdown place him at the hub of the investigation into a string of vicious serial murders.

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...

Terror hits home in this harrowing psychological thriller that will chill you to the bone. Recently widowed child psychologist Mary Portman lives an isolated existence caring for her bedridden stepson in rural New England. But when a young boy Mary is treating goes missing in a snowstorm and is presumed dead, she becomes convinced that his ghost is haunting her, and soon Mary's grip on reality turns as slippery as her icy surroundings.

Connecting with an eight-year-old kidnapping victim named Kathy, child therapist Robin Hart is unsettled when it seems Kathy is playacting real unsolved murders and must unlock the secrets in Kathy's brain and stop a serial killer before he strikes again.

"Hidden Falls is exactly as Samantha Parker left it--small, insular, and prone to gossip. Eighteen years have passed since she witnessed her brother's murder, but she's still the talk of the town. Until a handsome child psychologist with haunting memories of his own arrives. Dr. Ethan McClane isn't exactly a newcomer. If it weren't for his latest case, he'd never set foot back in Hidden Falls. Thankfully, no one seems to recognize him as the troubled...