Private Eyes (Alex Delaware Novels (Paperback))

Kellerman devises a psychologically complex, highly satisfying plot in this latest mystery (after Time Bomb ) to feature child psychologist Alex Delaw are, although we wait too long for the best parts and although Delaware, hi s love life on hold, seems less emotionally present than in previous cases. Harvard-bound, 18-year-old heiress Melissa Dickinson, whom Delaware had su ccessfully treated for anxiety 10 years earlier, calls him with concerns ab out leaving her wealthy mother, an agoraphobe. Years before Melissa's birth , Gina Dickinson Ramp had been disfigured by acid thrown for never-revealed reasons by a former lover, now out of prison and back in town. Widowed for many years, recently remarried and making progress in her own intensive th erapy with a noted husband-and-wife team of behaviorial psychologists, Gina is still fragile. When she disappears, Melissa enlists Delaware's help and that of his friend, Milo Sturgis, on leave from the LAPD (for having slugg ed, on TV, a homophobic superior). Kellerman deftly handles the strings of his plot, keeping in question the plight of Gina and the identities of thos e wishing her ill, until final events make what came before seem inevitable . A brief reunion with his former lover Robin will leave readers hoping for a reconciliation in Delaware's next appearance.

Product Info

ISBN: 0553299506

ISBN-13: 9780553299502

Publisher: Bantam

Year: 1992

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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