The Session

A female therapist suddenly finds herself trapped in the middle of a complex and deadly cat-and-mouse game with an ingenious, cold-blooded killer, in a new thriller by the award-winning author of Every Step You Take. Reprint.

He delights in destroying lives; her mission is to save them. One of them will lose.

This is the deadly game at the heart of the provocative new thriller by the award-winning author praised for her "stunning psychological suspense"... *

P.J. Lafferty, a therapist assigned to the woman's psych ward at New York's infamous Rikers Island, is blamed for her role in the stabbing death of a prisoner. Struggling to start her life over, she takes on private patients and starts working with a therapist of her own. Just as things seem to be looking up, P.J. discovers disturbing new developments regarding the murder-implicating the victim's estranged and sadistic husband, threatening the safety of her only child, and trapping an eyewitness in an inescapable nightmare. Now, only P.J. can stop a ruthless killer in his tracks.

Praise for Judith Kelman's novels

"A powerhouse of a thriller."--Harlan Coben*

"Surprising...unusual as it is entertaining." --Nelson DeMille

"Swift, suspenseful, and highly entertaining."-- Dean Koontz

"Very hard to put down."-- San Francisco Chronicle

"Riveting...loaded with suspense."--Susan Issacs

Now make an appointment for The Session -her most electrifying novel yet