Self-defence
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Series: Alex Delaware -- 9; Alex Delaware -- 9.
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780755342938
Subjects: Fiction; Milo Sturgis (Fictitious character); Child psychologists; Police; Recovered memory
Notes: Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 1994.
Table of contents: title: Paperback -An Alex Delaware thriller Lucy Lowell is traumatised after serving jury duty on the trial of a depraved killer. Horrific images haunt her waking life and at night she's terrorised by the recurring nightmare of a small child watching a terrible scene unfold in a darken wood. Lucy's terrified that she's losing her grip on reality. Her psychologist, Alex Delaware, thinks her dreams are repressed memories of something very real; title: a very real murder. Alex knows that delving into Lucy's mind might awaken past terrors but nothing could have prepared him for the horrors about to be unleashed.