Because Alex knows that in a realm of money, loss, and madness, something terrible pushed Jamie over the edge-or else someone is getting away with murder. And when he peers into a familys troubled history and Jameys brilliant, tormented mind, the psychologist puts himself at the heart of a high-profile case. Wooed by a high-powered attorney to build a defense, Alex will get a chance to do what he couldnt five years ago.

But by the time Alex reaches Canyon Oaks Psychiatric Hospital, Jamey is gone, surfacing a day later in the hands of the police, who believe Jamey is the infamous Lavender Slasher, a psychotic serial killer. Driving through the dream-lit San Fernando Valley, Alex rushes to Jamey Cadmus, the patient he had failed five years before-and who now calls with a bizarre cry for help. Alex Delaware, The Crime Reader, returns in Over the Edge - a compulsive novel from Jonathan Kellerman, the master of psychological suspense. But by the time Alex reaches Canyon Oaks Psychiatric Hospital, Jamey is gone, surfacing a day later in When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. And when he peers into a family’s troubled history and Jamey’s brilliant, tormented mind, the psychologist puts himself at the heart of a high-profile case. Driving through the dream-lit San Fernando Valley, Alex rushes to Jamey Cadmus, the patient he had failed five years before-and who now calls with a bizarre cry for help.

When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate.

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