Obsession - Alex Delaware, Bk 21 Author:Jonathan Kellerman Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, at nineteen, Tanya returns with a curious request: that Delaware investigate her aunt’s deathbed confession of murder. While Delaware doubts that Patty Bigelow was capable of such a horrific act, he agrees to look into... more » the matter.
Armed with only the vaguest details, Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Stugris retrace Patty’s and Tanya’s nomadic and increasingly puzzling life. Then 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.« less