The following day, Jamey is accused of being the lavender slasher killer.

When he tries to look into the treatment Jamey was receiving, he's stalled. Now, Jamey Cadmus is in a psychological hospital and begs for help.When Delaware arrives at the hospital, he finds that Jamey has escaped. Alex Delaware gets a call in the middle of the night from a patient he has seen in the past but feels that he let the boy down. Because Alex knows that in a realm of money, loss, and madness, something terrible pushed Jamey over the edge-or else someone is getting away with murder. And when he peers into a family’s troubled history and Jamey’s brilliant, tormented mind, the psychologist puts himself at the heart of a high-profile case. Wooed by a high-powered attorney to build a defense, Alex will get a chance to do what he couldn’t five years ago. But by the time Alex reaches Canyon Oaks Psychiatric Hospital, Jamey is gone, surfacing a day later in the hands of the police, who believe Jamey is the infamous Lavender Slasher, a psychotic serial killer. Driving through the dream-lit San Fernando Valley, Alex rushes to Jamey Cadmus, the patient he had failed five years before-and who now calls with a bizarre cry for help. When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. From the New York Times bestselling author of Serpentine comes a thrilling novel in the Alex Delaware series about a psychologist called in to help when a former patient is accused of committing a string of chilling murders.

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