I received this book on 1/14 from readnmachine in OR ... as part of Read-n-Swap book chain. This book was once in a library in Tucson, AZ.

c. 1989 -- 484 pages -- Paperback -- #4 Alex Delaware novel -- The astonishing New York Times Bestseller -- a feature Alternate of the Literary Guild

Back Cover: The bestselling author of "When the Bough Breaks," "Blood Test," and "Over the Edge" delivers the most stunning novel yet featuring psychologist detective Dr. Alex Delaware.

At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist. Alex encounters a face from his own past -- Sharon Ransom, an exquisite, alluring lover who left him abruptly more than a decade earlier. Sharon now hints that she desperately needs help, but Alex evades her. The next day she is dead, an apparent suicide.

Driven by guilt and sadness, Alex plunges into the maze of Sharon's life -- a journey that will take him through the pleasure palaces of California's ultra-rich, into the dark closets of a family's disturbing past, and finally into the alleyways of the mind, where childhood terrors still hold sway.

I finished reading this Sunday 4/11. I didn't enjoy it as much as the previous two books in the series. I enjoy the parts where Alex Delaware deals with children (twins in this case) as a psychologist and detective. But I didn't care for the adult sex scenes in this particular book.

I offered this back into chain on Read-n-Swap.

Released on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 at The Flame Restaurant, 698 W. US 2 in Saint Ignace, Michigan USA.

I left this book in the woman's restroom. We ate dinner here on our first night of vacation.