What a wonderful, compelling plot. It is complex and is so well detailed it kept me reading and I had a difficult time putting it down. The characters are well defined, there is humor and suspense. This just a wonderful read. This is the second book I have read by White and I am hooked. I hope he continues with his wonderful writing.
Dr. Alan Gregory's psychologist practice is flagging through no fault of his own so in between patients he is consulting for the local coroner's office investigating suspicious deaths. His girlfriend Lauren Croder, assistant DA is involved in a high profile grand jury case whose primary witnesses are dropping like flies and Alan Gregory seems to be on scene at each death. Several prominent citizens are entrapped in the conspiracy and somehow Dr. Gregory's patients are involved in this and he is the lynch pin.
Begins strong and exciting and then starts lagging with too much talk of Dr. Gregory's marital problems. His soon-to-be ex-wife is a manipulative bitch and Lauren is sort of wishy-washy. I enjoyed the many cojoined mysteries but your seriously had to be a rocket scientist to figure out this tangle. Definitely kept me guessing and turning pages.
Begins strong and exciting and then starts lagging with too much talk of Dr. Gregory's marital problems. His soon-to-be ex-wife is a manipulative bitch and Lauren is sort of wishy-washy. I enjoyed the many cojoined mysteries but your seriously had to be a rocket scientist to figure out this tangle. Definitely kept me guessing and turning pages.
Why have two witnesses scheduled to appear before a local grand jury died violently just prior to giving their testimony? That's what Detective Sam Purdy, thrust into an uneasy partnership with Dr. Alan Gregory, wants to know. From the first pages of the novel, when Gregory's office is invaded by a homicidal husband seeking revenge on his wife for her decision to divorce him, until Private Pratices' powerful climax. Purdy and Gregory strive to make sense of the pieces of an increasingly complex puzzle. In these Rocky Mountains nothing is quite as it seems.
A pivotal character is one of Dr. Gregory's patients, seventeen-year-old Randy Navens. He has been in psychotherapy since he survived a plane crash that claimed the lives of his parents and his sister. Now he is living with his aunt and uncle, and is haunted by nightmares and suicidal impulses. The unique course of his treatment takes Alan Gregory on a quest that soon ensnarles both doctor and patient in a dangeous web that threatens both their lives.
A pivotal character is one of Dr. Gregory's patients, seventeen-year-old Randy Navens. He has been in psychotherapy since he survived a plane crash that claimed the lives of his parents and his sister. Now he is living with his aunt and uncle, and is haunted by nightmares and suicidal impulses. The unique course of his treatment takes Alan Gregory on a quest that soon ensnarles both doctor and patient in a dangeous web that threatens both their lives.
