<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b><br> <b> </b><br> Behind the yellow crime-scene tape, a brutal tableau awaits. On a lonely lovers’ lane in the hills of Los Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each victim bears a single gunshot wound to the head. Though the female remains unidentified, her male companion has a name—Gavin Quick—and a troubled past that had landed him on a therapist’s couch. <br> <br> <b>“Labyrinthine twists, excellent pacing, and hard-boiled, swaggering dialogue.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br> <br> It’s there, on familiar turf, that psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware hopes to find vital clues. And that means going head-to-head with Dr. Mary Lou Koppel, a celebrity psychologist who fiercely guards the privacy of her clients . . . alive or dead. As Delaware follows a chain of greed, corruption, and betrayal snaking hideously through the profession he thought he knew, he’ll cross into territory even <i>he</i> never dreamed of treading.