Silent Partner: An Alex Delaware Novel - Softcover

Kellerman, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345540239 ISBN 13: 9780345540232

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2013

Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist, Alex Delaware 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.
 
“A complex and haunting story of tangled personalities, deeply buried family secrets, and of violence lying thinly under the surface . . . hits the reader right between the eyes.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
 
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 ultrarich, into the alleyways of the mind, where childhood terrors still hold sway.

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From the Publisher:

The best-selling author of When The Bough Breaks, Blood Test, and Over The Edge delivers the most stunning novel yet and 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 he 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. "A complex and haunting story of tangled personalities, deeply buried family secrets, and of violence lying thinly under the surface .... Hits the reader right between the eyes." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review]P

From the Back Cover:

"A complex and haunting story of tangled personalities, deeply buried family secrets, and of violence lying thinly under the surface ... Hits the reader right between the eyes." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
From the Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0345540239
• ISBN 13: 9780345540232
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512