By Jonathan Kellerman

The recent York Time bestselling writer Jonathan Kellerman’s “psychology abilities and darkish mind's eye are a powerful literary mix” l. a. instances, and this intensely exciting mixture hasn't ever been so strong as within the acclaimed author’s new novel of homicide and insanity one of the attractive dreamers, seductive predators, and doomed innocents adrift within the glare of Southern California’s everlasting sunshine.

A sequence of scary occasions take place in speedy succession within the similar upscale L.A. local. A yard maintenance reveals an infant’s physique, buried sixty years in the past. and shortly thereafter in a close-by park, one other disturbingly extraordinary discovery is made no longer faraway from the physique of a tender lady shot within the head. supporting LAPD murder detective Milo Sturgis to hyperlink those eerie incidents is outstanding psychologist Alex Delaware. yet even the nice doctor’s tremendous event with concerns either scientific and felony will not be adequate to chop right down to the bone of this chilling case—and draw out the nerve-racking truth.

Backtracking six many years into the prior stirs up stories of an attractive nurse with a secret lover, a good-looking, prosperous surgeon who turns out too strong to be actual, and a clinic with a infamous reputation—all of them gone, besides any files of a infant, and destined for anonymity. however the specter of status rears its head while the case all of sudden twists towards the top echelons of famous person privilege. coming into this sheltered global, Alex little imagines the macabre layer slightly under the surface—a decadent quagmire of unholy rituals and grisly sacrifice.

Before their paintings is completed, Alex and Milo, “the most unusual whodunit duo given that Watson and Holmes” (Forbes), needs to confront a fanatically deranged brain of such tremendous crafty that even the main wicked madman could shudder.