Obsession - Jonathan Kellerman

With scores of millions of books in print, translation into two dozen languages,
and one of the most popular heroes in contemporary fiction to his name, #1 New York
Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman is the unequivocal "master of the psychological
thriller" (People). In Obsession, Kellerman delivers a tour de force-poignant,
dark, and chilling-that illuminates a shadowy world where impulse rules.

Tanya
Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her
obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, at nineteen, she still seems older than her years- but her problems go beyond hyper-maturity. Patty Bigelow, Tanya's aunt and adoptive
mother, has made a deathbed confession of murder and urged the young woman to seek
Delaware's help. The doctor recalls Patty as a selfless E.R. nurse struggling to
raise a child on her own-a woman seemingly incapable of the "terrible thing" she
has admitted. But for Tanya's peace of mind, Delaware agrees to investigate, and
he enlists LAPD detective Milo Sturgis in the search for the phantom victim of a
crime that may never have occurred.

Armed with only the vaguest details, psychologist
and cop follow a trail twisting from L.A.'s sleaziest low-rent districts to its overblown
mansions, retracing Patty and Tanya's nomadic and increasingly puzzling life to the
doorsteps of a sullen heroin addict; a randy real-estate broker; and a brilliant,
enigmatic physics student. Suddenly a very real murder tears open a terrifying tunnel
into the past, where secrets-and bodies-are buried. As the tension mounts, Delaware
and Sturgis uncover a tangled history of desperation, vengeance, and death-a legacy
of evil that refuses to die.

Dramatic, action-packed, and filled with the psychological
detail that only Jonathan Kellerman can provide, Obsession is a whodunit, a whydunit- and something unique: a did-it-even-happen? This is Kellerman at his heart-racing
best.


From the Hardcover edition.