num_pages: 448
description: When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. It's a call he can't ignore.Driving through the 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. 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. Wooed by a high-powered attorney to build a defense, Alex will get a chance to do what he couldn't five years ago. 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. 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.
language: English
title: Over the Edge
titlecomplete: Over the Edge (Alex Delaware, #3)
characters: R. Oberheim, Hornburgh, Calvin Whitehead and Richard Cash, Guy Fawkes (Over the Edge), Sophia Loren (Over the Edge), Cesar Chavez (Over the Edge), Biker skinny and biker fatso, Mrs. Vann, Bill Sarna, Dr. Levi and Susan, Bradford Balch, Delano Hardy, Cyril Trapp, Dwight Cadmus, Patrick Montez, Ms. Randee Bogdan, Rockin' Billy, Franco (Over the Edge), Simon Wiesenthal (Over the Edge), Sarita Flowers, Ivar Digby Chancellor, Horace Souza, The Lavender Slasher, Richard Emmett Ford, Ivar Digby Chancellor, Darrel Gonzales, Matthew Higbie, Rolf Piper, John Henry Spinola, Andrew Terrence Boy, Marthe Surtees, Erno Radovic, Thomas Chatterton (Over the Edge), The art gallery guy, Lou Cestare, Mal Worthy, Dr. Guy Mainwaring, Heather Cadmus, Felicia Blocker, David Krohnglass, Jennifer Leavitt, and Joshua Marciano, Dr. Platt, Tim Leary (Over the Edge), Jo McCarthy (Over the Edge), Dr. Djibouti, Seymour Chereskin, William Tull Bonney, Milo Sturgis, Rick Silverman, Margaret Norton (Over the Edge), John Jacob Cadmus, Gary Yamaguchi, Jamey Cadmus, Robin Castagna, Scheherazade (The Herb of Death), Alex Delaware, Sonnenschein, Peter Cadmus, Tully Antrim, Old Man Skaggs
genres: Mystery, Murder Mystery, Psychology, Suspense, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 12410
places: Los Angeles area, California
series: Alex Delaware
publisher: Ballantine Books