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Search - The Devil's Waltz
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Book Description:
The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy, the terrifying disease that causes parents to induce illness in their own children. Now, in his most frightening case, Dr. Alex Delaware may have to prove that a child's own mother or father is making her sick.
Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones is bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yet her parents rush her to the emergency room night after night with medical symptoms no doctor can explain. Cassie's parents seem sympathetic and deeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of devotion. Yet when child psychologist Alex Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him that one of them may be a monster.
Then a physician at the hospital is brutally murdered. A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and his friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis have only hours to uncover the link between these shocking events and the fate of an innocent child.
Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones is bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yet her parents rush her to the emergency room night after night with medical symptoms no doctor can explain. Cassie's parents seem sympathetic and deeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of devotion. Yet when child psychologist Alex Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him that one of them may be a monster.
Then a physician at the hospital is brutally murdered. A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and his friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis have only hours to uncover the link between these shocking events and the fate of an innocent child.
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Genres:
- Mystery & Thrillers >> Mystery >> General
- Mystery & Thrillers >> Thrillers >> Suspense
- Mystery & Thrillers >> Authors, A-Z >> ( K ) >> Kellerman, Jonathan
- Mystery & Thrillers >> General
Other Versions of this Book: Paperback, Hardcover, Hardcover, Audio Cassette (Abridged), Audio Cassette
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Ronald M. from BUENA PARK, CA wrote on 8/31/2008...This was a great read.
Gaylene G. (Little slow for me, but got better around the last 1/3 of the book. Surprise ending.
When Dr. Delaware consults on a little girl, he is positive the diagnosis is Munchauseen by proxy. Munchaussen is when a person makes herself sick; munchaussen by proxy is when someone (usually the mother) makes the child sick frequently. Great mystery. One of Kellerman's early novel...but holds your attention to the end.
Dhipanee M. from FORT COLLINS, CO wrote on 4/22/2007...Alarming book that reveals the cruel and evil side of human nature. Suspenseful and the ending is not at all what everyone expects.
Bobbie L. (Another excellent Alex Delaware book. This is my favorite one that I've read to date.
A Dr. Alex Delaware novel.
Delaware must find the monster who is hearting an 21 month old girl, doe's one of her caregivers have Munchausen by proxy.
AMBER M. from PHOENIX, AZ wrote on 3/27/2007...Introduced me to the disease Munchausen by proxy. Scary
Twenty one month old Cassie is bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yet her parents rush her to the ER night after night with medical symptoms no one can explain. When Alex is called to investigate, instinct tels him that one parent may be a monster.
Hollie B. from CUYAHOGA FLS, OH wrote on 3/13/2007...The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy, the terrifying disorder that causes parents to induce illness in their own children.
Twenty-one month old Cassie Jones is bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yet her parents rush her to the emergency room night after night with medical symptoms no doctor can explain.
Cassie's parents seem sympathetic and deeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of devotion. Yet when child psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him that one of them may be a monster.
Then a physician at the hospital is brutally murdered.
One of my favorite Kellerman novels.
Tom S. (A really intelligent psychological thriller about a child psychologist investigating a case of Munchhausen by proxy to determine whether it is the mother, the father or the apparently devoted nurse simulating illness in an innocent toddler in order to feed their need for attention.