Kellerman, Jonathan.

Obsession : an Alex delaware novel / Jonathon Kellerman. - Camberwell, Vic. : Michael Joseph, 2007. - 347 p. ; 23 cm. - Alex Delaware . - Kellerman, Jonathan. Alex Delaware novels. . - Alex Delaware .

At forty, Patty Bigelow thought she'd finally figured life out. Then her wayward sister Leila abandons her child, Tanya, on Patty's doorstep. The aunt and troubled niece slowly learn to live together, with the help of Dr Alex Delaware's counselling. Now, fifteen years later, Tanya is back in Alex's office, a self-possessed Harvard graduate. Patty - the only real mother she's ever known - has died and left Tanya with a chilling legacy: a deathbed confession that her aunt murdered a man years earlier. Tanya has tried to let go of the confession. But it soon becomes clear that nothing short of finding out the truth will do. And she needs Alex's help...

At forty, Patty Bigelow thought she'd finally figured life out. Then her wayward sister Leila abandons her child, Tanya, on Patty's doorstep. The aunt and troubled niece slowly learn to live together, with the help of Dr Alex Delaware's counselling. Now, fifteen years later, Tanya is back in Alex's office, a self-possessed Harvard graduate. Patty - the only real mother she's ever known - has died and left Tanya with a chilling legacy: a deathbed confession that her aunt murdered a man years earlier. Tanya has tried to let go of the confession. But it soon becomes clear that nothing short of finding out the truth will do. And she needs Alex's help.

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Detective and mystery stories, American.
Mystery fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character)
Sturgis, Milo (Fictitious character)
Police--California--Fiction.
Police--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
Psychologists--Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.


California--Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

Psychological fiction. Mystery fiction.


Psychological fiction.
Fiction.
Mystery fiction.

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