Psychologist Alex Delaware and pal, Det. Milo Sturgis heading out for dinner and when sirens start to sound, it's not long before they're both once again knee deep in blood and corruption.
The team finds two youngsters in a parked car, apparently once engaged in what youths often do in parked cars, except they're now dead, murdered. After informing the parents, the two find themselves struggling to make sense of the crime and find that the young boy was almost killed earlier in a car accident which left him injured. The poor kid was in therapy and he wasn't the only client seen by this particular therapist who had been murdered. | ||
Plot & Themes Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear) How difficult to spot villain? - Difficult, but some clues given Time/era of story: Medical Thriller Yes Medical Plotlets: What % of story relates directly to the mystery, not the subplot? - 70% Misc. Murder Plotlets - character killed during/after sexing - Big focus on forensic evidence Kind of investigator Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book descript. of violence and chases - 30 % Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 % How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10 % Crime Thriller Yes Murder Mystery (killer unknown) Yes Main Character Gender - Male Profession/status: Age: - 40's-50's Ethnicity/Race Main Adversary Identity: - none Setting United States Yes The US: - California Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey descriptions deaths/dead bodies Explicit sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - vague references - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |