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    Mind Games

    By William Deverell

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    Award-winner William Deverell proves that when you mess with a psychiatrist’s mind, anything can happen

    Psychiatrist Dr. Tim Dare’s life is falling apart: his wife has just left him, he’s being hauled before a disciplinary committee, and now someone’s threatening to kill him

    In his gripping new novel, Mind Games, William Deverell returns to the intriguing territory of the law and lawyers and of human psychology and motivation, and he does so in familiar Deverell surroundings: the streets, courtrooms, and waters of Vancouver.

    Dr. Tim Dare is a forensic psychiatrist whose life is in a mess: his wife has just left him to find herself; his mother is being sued for libel by a small-town mayor over a mystery novel; he’s been made the monitor of a man just out of psychiatric hospital, a man he considers a psychopathic murderer; he’s being hauled before a disciplinary committee for “misplacing” a file; one of his patients is “transferring” feelings to him rather too romantically; and now someone’s threatening to kill him. He can’t even get into an elevator without falling apart. No wonder he thinks he needs to see a shrink himself. Under the guidance of fellow psychiatrist Dr. Allison Epstein, Dare gradually learns how to face the demons within – and those in the real world that are really out to get him.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateSep 3, 2010
    ISBN9781551994024
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    William Deverell

    After working his way through law school as a news reporter and editor, Bill Deverell was a criminal lawyer in Vancouver before publishing the first of his 16 novels: "Needles", which won the $50,000 Seal Award. "Trial of Passion" won the 1997 Dashiell Hammett award for literary excellence in crime writing in North America, as well as the Arthur Ellis prize in crime writing in Canada. "April Fool" was also an Ellis winner, and his recent two novels, "Kill All the Judges" and :Snow Job" were shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Prize in Humour. His two latest Arthur Beauchamp courtroom dramas, "I'll See You in My Dreams", and "Sing a Worried Song" were released in 2011 and 2013 respectively. His novels have been translated into fourteen languages and sold worldwide. He created CBC's long-running TV series "Street Legal", which has run internationally in more than 80 countries. He was Visiting Professor of Creative Writing University of Victoria, and twice served as Chair of the Writers' Union of Canada. He is a founder and honourary director of the BC Civil Liberties Association and is a Green activist. He has been awarded two honourary doctorates in letters, from Simon Fraser University and the University of Saskatchewan. He lives on Pender Island, British Columbia.

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