After thirty-five riveting, internationally acclaimed novels of psychological suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author onathan !

ellerman returns with his most stunning thriller to date" !iller is a mesmeri#ing $"A" noir portrayal of the darkest impulses of human nature carried to shocking e%tremes"

The &ity of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recogni#es that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant 'r" Ale% 'elaware" 'espite that, &onstance (ykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Ale% needs to fear" Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bi#arre child custody dispute initiated by &onnie against her sister and begins to reali#e that there is much about the siblings he has failed to comprehend" And when the court battle between the (ykes sisters erupts into cold, calculating murder and a rapidly growing number of victims, Ale% knows he)s been snared in a to%ic web of pathology"

Nothing would please Ale% more than to be free of the ugly spectacle known as (ykes v" (ykes" *ut then the little girl at the center of the vicious dispute disappears and Ale% knows he must work with longtime friend 'etective +ilo (turgis, braving an obstacle course of ,ollywood washouts, gangbangers, and self-serving -urists in order to save an innocent life"

!iller is !ellerman.and 'elaware.at their finest"

/raise for onathan !ellerman

0 onathan !ellerman has -ustly earned his reputation as a master of the psychological thriller"1./eople

0!ellerman really knows how to keep those pages turning"1.The New York Times *ook 2eview

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