num_pages: 472
description: When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. 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. 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: Richard Emmett Ford, Ivar Digby Chancellor, Darrel Gonzales, Matthew Higbie, Rolf Piper, John Henry Spinola, Andrew Terrence Boy, Cesar Chavez (Over the Edge), Sarita Flowers, Franco (Over the Edge), Dr. Platt, Sonnenschein, Ms. Randee Bogdan, John Jacob Cadmus, Margaret Norton (Over the Edge), Alex Delaware, Old Man Skaggs, Tim Leary (Over the Edge), Horace Souza, Ivar Digby Chancellor, Simon Wiesenthal (Over the Edge), Mal Worthy, R. Oberheim, Jo McCarthy (Over the Edge), Dr. Levi and Susan, Calvin Whitehead and Richard Cash, The art gallery guy, Sophia Loren (Over the Edge), Thomas Chatterton (Over the Edge), Rick Silverman, Scheherazade (The Herb of Death), Gary Yamaguchi, Cyril Trapp, The Lavender Slasher, Dr. Djibouti, Tully Antrim, Bradford Balch, Dr. Guy Mainwaring, Delano Hardy, Peter Cadmus, Heather Cadmus, Patrick Montez, Dwight Cadmus, Erno Radovic, Robin Castagna, Mrs. Vann, Rockin' Billy, Lou Cestare, Felicia Blocker, David Krohnglass, Jennifer Leavitt, and Joshua Marciano, Seymour Chereskin, Jamey Cadmus, Biker skinny and biker fatso, Hornburgh, William Tull Bonney, Marthe Surtees, Guy Fawkes (Over the Edge), Bill Sarna, Milo Sturgis
genres: Suspense, Audiobook, Murder Mystery, Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Psychology, Mystery Thriller, Detective
ratings_count: 12414
places: Los Angeles area, California
series: Alex Delaware
publisher: Signet