The brutal killings of a young couple--the troubled Gavin Quick and an unidentified female victim impaled by a metal spike--draws LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware into a suspenseful search for a cold-blooded killer and into a confrontation with a popular celebrity psychologist with a penchant for privacy.

"Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis are faced with their most perplexing case yet when a double homicide investigation leads them to stolen identities and long-buried secrets worth killing for in this riveting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author"-- Los Angeles is a city of reinvention. Many come to start anew, to strike it big. Many kill the person they once were, the person they left behind. And in turn, someone...

Lauren Crowder, assistant district attorney in Boulder, Colorado, shoots at a stalker during a snow storm and police arrest her. But she is not about to go to jail without a fight. After all, what is a woman supposed to do, wait till she is raped?

"A much loved woman's dead body is found in her apartment, victim of horrendous overkill even as her dining room table is perfectly set for a romantic dinner. Turns out her devoted boyfriend has an alibi and, with few clues leading to a suspect, LAPD's Lieutenant Milo Sturgis calls in psychologist Alex Delaware for help. Then another woman's shot execution style; three bullets in the back of her head leave her husband with a profitable business. He's...

Detective Milo Sturgis and investigator Alex Delaware tackle the case of a murdered teacher who before her death made a DVD describing the sexual trauma she was suffering at the hands of three fellow teachers at her L.A. school.

LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware must solve a series of murders involving the use of expensive black automobiles at the scene of the crimes. And what does a child missing for sixteen years have to do with their search for the perpetrator?