Jonathan Kellerman: Private Eyes (USA 2013)

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The voice belongs to a woman, but Dr. Alex Delaware remembers a little girl. It is eleven years since seven-year-old Melissa Dickinson dialed the hospital help line for comfort -- and found it in therapy with Alex Delaware. Now the lovely young heiress is desperately calling for the psychologist's help once more. Only this time it looks like Melissa's deepest childhood nightmare is really coming true.

Twenty years ago, Gina Dickinson, Melissa's mother, suffered a grisly assault that left the budding actress irreparably scarred and emotionally crippled. Now her acid-wielding assailant is out of prison and back in L.A. -- and Melissa is terrified that the monster has returned to hurt Gina again. But before Alex Delaware can even begin to soothe his former patient's fears, Gina, a recluse for twenty years, disappears. And now, unless Delaware turns crack detective to uncover the truth, Gina Dickinson will be just one more victim of a cold fury that has already spawned madness... and murder.

Jonathan Kellerman: Private Eyes. An Alex Delaware Novel. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 9780345540164 (February, 2013), 514 p., $9.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Private Eyes (UK 2008)

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Psychologist Alex Delaware regards Melissa Dickinson as one of his greatest achievements. A tormented seven year old when she first appeared in his LA surgery, two years on she was fully recovered. Years later, Melissa contacts Alex, desperate for him to help her mother, Gina. Gina was a buddingHollywood starlet until a vicious acid attack left her disfigured. Crippled with fear, Gina has hidden from the world for two decades. But before Alex can help, she disappears. Now Alex is locked in a search leading him into a grotesque labyrinth of hidden histories and desires...

Jonathan Kellerman: Private Eyes. An Alex Delaware Novel. Headline, ISBN: 9780755342907 (August, 2008), 598 p., £7.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Private Eyes (USA 2003)

From the Publisher:
The voice belongs to a woman, but Dr. Alex Delaware remembers a little girl. It is eleven years since seven-year-old Melissa Dickinson dialed the hospital help line for comfort -- and found it in therapy with Alex Delaware. Now the lovely young heiress is desperately calling for the psychologist's help once more. Only this time it looks like Melissa's deepest childhood nightmare is really coming true.

Twenty years ago, Gina Dickinson, Melissa's mother, suffered a grisly assault that left the budding actress irreparably scarred and emotionally crippled. Now her acid-wielding assailant is out of prison and back in L.A. -- and Melissa is terrified that the monster has returned to hurt Gina again. But before Alex Delaware can even begin to soothe his former patient's fears, Gina, a recluse for twenty years, disappears. And now, unless Delaware turns crack detective to uncover the truth, Gina Dickinson will be just one more victim of a cold fury that has already spawned madness... and murder.

Jonathan Kellerman: Private Eyes. An Alex Delaware Novel. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345460707 (April, 2003), 525 p., $7.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Private Eyes (UK 1995)

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Psychologist Dr Alex Delaware has always looked on Melissa Dickinson as one of his greatest triumphs. A terrified, tormented seven-year-old when she first appeared in his Los Angeles surgery, Melissa after two years seemed totally recovered. But nine years later Melissa contacts Alex again, anxious this time for her mother. As Alex recalls, weatlthy widow Gina Dickinson has problems of her own. For two decades she has hidden herself away from the eyes of the world - ever since a vicious acid attack destroyed the face of Hollywood actress Gina Prince. Then the reclusive Gina climbs into her car - and totally disappears. And as Alex and Detective Milo Sturgis lead the search for her, they find their quest taking them out of the here and now and into a grotesque, labyrinthine private history as violent and sinister as any bad dream...How well did Alex ever understand his star patient Melissa? How could he have 'cured' her when he never even guessed at the evil and hatred that formed her inheritance?

Jonathan Kellerman: Private Eyes. Featuring Alex Delaware. Warner, ISBN: 0751500208 (April, 1995), 584 p., £5.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Private Eyes (UK 1992)

From the Publisher:
Psychologist Dr Alex Delaware has always looked on Melissa Dickinson as one of his greatest triumphs. A terrified, tormented seven-year-old when she first appeared in his Los Angeles surgery, Melissa after two years seemed totally recovered. But nine years later Melissa contacts Alex again, anxious this time for her mother. As Alex recalls, weatlthy widow Gina Dickinson has problems of her own. For two decades she has hidden herself away from the eyes of the world - ever since a vicious acid attack destroyed the face of Hollywood actress Gina Prince. Then the reclusive Gina climbs into her car - and totally disappears. And as Alex and Detective Milo Sturgis lead the search for her, they find their quest taking them out of the here and now and into a grotesque, labyrinthine private history as violent and sinister as any bad dream...How well did Alex ever understand his star patient Melissa? How could he have 'cured' her when he never even guessed at the evil and hatred that formed her inheritance?

Jonathan Kellerman: Private Eyes. Featuring Alex Delaware. Warner, ISBN: 0751500208 (October, 1992), 584 p., £4.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Private Eyes (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
The voice belongs to a woman, but Dr. Alex Delaware remembers a little girl. It is eleven years since seven-year-old Melissa Dickinson dialed the hospital help line for comfort -- and found it in therapy with Alex Delaware. Now the lovely young heiress is desperately calling for the psychologist's help once more. Only this time it looks like Melissa's deepest childhood nightmare is really coming true.

Twenty years ago, Gina Dickinson, Melissa's mother, suffered a grisly assault that left the budding actress irreparably scarred and emotionally crippled. Now her acid-wielding assailant is out of prison and back in L.A. -- and Melissa is terrified that the monster has returned to hurt Gina again. But before Alex Delaware can even begin to soothe his former patient's fears, Gina, a recluse for twenty years, disappears. And now, unless Delaware turns crack detective to uncover the truth, Gina Dickinson will be just one more victim of a cold fury that has already spawned madness... and murder.

Jonathan Kellerman: Private Eyes. An Alex Delaware Novel. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0553299506 (October, 1992), 525 p., $6.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Private Eyes (USA 1992)

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"[Jonathan Kellerman) has shaped the psychological mystery novel into an art form." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
Jonathan Kellerman's six successive, critically acclaimed bestsellers have earned him a place in the front rank of suspense novelists. Now Kellerman's psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware returns in a gripping new tale with all the compulsive readability, vivid characterization, and Southern California ambience for which Kellerman's earlier novels-among them Over the Edge, Silent Partner, and Time Bomb -- are famous. The story unfolds in the old-money bastion of San Labrador, a high-security enclave where Los Angeles's ultraprivileged live behind high walls, safe from prying eyes. But safety, no matter how well cushioned by cash, is just an illusion...

PRIVATE EYES
The voice belongs to a woman, but Alex Delaware remembers a little girl. It is nearly a decade since he last saw Melissa Dickinson, then an uncommonly bright seven-year-old tormented by so many fears that she dialed a hospital help line for comfort -- and found it in therapy with Alex Delaware. Now shes a lovely young woman, an heiress to one of San Labrador's largest fortunes. Healthy, strong, and headed to Harvard, she should be brimming with hope. But her worst childhood fear has returned to obsess her. Her longest-running nightmare threatens to come true...

Twenty years ago a vengeful assailant left Melissa's actress-mother, Gina, irreparably scarred and emotionally crippled. Now the attacker, whose motive was never discovered, has surfaced from prison to haunt the streets of Los Angeles once again. His target, Melissa fears, is all too obvious: her fragile mother, whose agoraphobia has kept her confined to the Dickinson estate like a princess in a tower from some long-ago fairy tale.

When, without warning, Gina vanishes, Alex tries to find answers from the police and from Gina's high-priced psychotherapists. Melissa is certain her mother has been abducted, and Alex enlists the help of his skeptical friend, detective Milo Sturgis -- now on disciplinary leave from the LAPD. Together they race against time to uncover an extraordinarily horrifying pattern of dark secrets, old and new; that have imprisoned many lives, only one of them Gina Dickinson's. A riveting thriller and a penetrating novel, Private Eyes is Jonathan Kellerman's finest and most emotionally resonant work to date.

After a distinguished career in child psychology, Jonathan Kellerman turned to writing fiction full-time. Today there are more than nine million copies of Kellerman's novels in print: When the Bough Breaks, Blood Test, Over the Edge, Silent Partner, Time Bomb (all Delaware novels), and The Butcher's Theater; a novel of serial killings in Jerusalem. He is also the author of two volumes of psychology and an upcoming children's book. He and his wife, the novelist Faye Kellerman, have three children.

Jonathan Kellerman: Private Eyes. An Alex Delaware Novel. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 055308013X (February, 1992), 475 p., $21.50.