Silent Partner - Jonathan Kellerman

At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist, Alex Delaware encounters a face from his own pastNSharon Ransom, an exquisite, alluring lover who left him more than a decade earlier. Sharon now hints that she desperately needs help, but Alex evades her. The next day she is dead, an apparent suicide.

Available in a tall Premium Edition. Reissue. nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER n n At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist, Alex Delaware encounters a face from his own past--Sharon Ransom, an exquisite, alluring lover who left him abruptly more than a decade earlier.

Sharon now hints that she desperately needs help, but Alex evades her. The next day she is dead, an apparent suicide. n A complex and haunting story of tangled personalities, deeply buried family secrets, and of violence lying thinly under the surface .

. . hits the reader right between the eyes.--Los Angeles Times Book Review n n Driven by guilt and sadness, Alex plunges into the maze of Sharon's life--a journey that will take him through the pleasure palaces of California's ultrarich, into the alleyways of the mind, where childhood terrors still hold sway.n