NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Professor Hope Devane's male-bashing pop-psych bestseller created a
storm of controversy on the talk-show circuit. Now she is dead, brutally
slashed on a quiet street in one of L.A.'s safest neighborhoods. The
LAPD's investigation has gone cold, and homicide detective Milo Sturgis
turns to his friend Dr. Alex Delaware for a psychological profile of the
victim--and a portrait of a killer.
"Engrossing . . . mines new realms of psychological terror . . . holds
the reader riveted."--Playboy
Hope Devane had very different public and private faces. The killer
could be any one of the millions who read her book, or someone from the
personal life she kept so carefully separate. As Alex and Milo dig
deeper into her shadowy past, they will set an elaborate trap for her
killer . . . and reveal the unspeakable act that triggered a dark chain
of violence.