Blood Test / When The Bough Breaks / Over The Edge

Psychologist Alex Delaware works alongside his longtime friend Milo Sturgis, a homicide detective, when a case begins with a seriously ill child who has vanished and the killing of the boy's parents. Their search draws them toward an isolated religious group whose members keep their own counsel. As they dig deeper, they uncover secrets buried inside the family, and each answer raises new questions about who is hiding what and why. The novel mixes clinical insight into human behavior with the steady pace of a police investigation.