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Obsession [an Alex Delaware novel]

Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, at nineteen, Patty Bigelow, Tanya's aunt and adoptive mother, has made a deathbed confession of murder and urged the young woman to seek Delaware's help. Armed with only the vaguest details, psychologist and cop follow a trail twisting from L.A.'s sleaziest low-rent districts to its overblown mansions, retracing Patty and Tanya's nomadic and increasingly puzzling life. Suddenly a very real murder tears open a terrifying tunnel into the past, where secrets--and bodies--are buried.

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  • "Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, at nineteen, Patty Bigelow, Tanya's aunt and adoptive mother, has made a deathbed confession of murder and urged the young woman to seek Delaware's help. Armed with only the vaguest details, psychologist and cop follow a trail twisting from L.A.'s sleaziest low-rent districts to its overblown mansions, retracing Patty and Tanya's nomadic and increasingly puzzling life. Suddenly a very real murder tears open a terrifying tunnel into the past, where secrets--and bodies--are buried."
  • "Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, at nineteen, Patty Bigelow, Tanya's aunt and adoptive mother, has made a deathbed confession of murder and urged the young woman to seek Delaware's help. Armed with only the vaguest details, psychologist and cop follow a trail twisting from L.A.'s sleaziest low-rent districts to its overblown mansions, retracing Patty and Tanya's nomadic and increasingly puzzling life. Suddenly a very real murder tears open a terrifying tunnel into the past, where secrets--and bodies--are buried."@en
  • ""Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, at nineteen, Patty Bigelow, Tanya's aunt and adoptive mother, has made a deathbed confession of murder and urged the young woman to seek Delaware's help. Armed with only the vaguest details, Delaware follows a trail twisting from L.A.'s sleaziest low-rent districts to its overblown mansions, retracing Patty and Tanya's nomadic and increasingly puzzling life. Then a very real murder tears open a terrifying tunnel into the past, where secrets--and bodies--are buried. Dramatic, action-packed, and filled with the psychological detail that only Jonathan Kellerman can provide, Obsession is a whodunit, a whydunit--and something unique: a did-it-even-happen? This is Kellerman at his heart-racing best"--Publisher's web site."@en
  • "Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive - compulsive symptoms. Now, at nineteen, Patty Bigelow, Tanya's aunt and adoptive mother, has made a deathbed confession of murder and urged the young woman to seek Delaware's help. Armed with only the vaguest details, Delaware follows a trail twisting from L.A.'s sleaziest low - rent districts to its overblown mansions, retracing Patty and Tanya's nomadic and increasingly puzzling life."@en
  • "Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now at nineteen, Tanya's aunt and adoptive mother have made a death bed confession of murder and urged the young woman to seek Delaware's help. This opens a terrifying tunnel into the past."@en
  • "The 21st Alex Delaware novel (after 2006's Gone) from bestseller Kellerman contains fewer twists than usual for this contemporary thriller series. Once again, Delaware, an accomplished psychologist, teams with his friend Milo Sturgis, an LAPD detective, to probe a mystery, though this time there's considerable doubt as to the nature of the puzzle. Teenager Tanya Bigelow, whom Delaware treated as a child for obsessive-compulsive disorder, consults him because her aunt Patty, who raised her, conveyed a cryptic message just before she died, apparently confessing to a crime. Shortly after Delaware and Sturgis start investigating, one of Patty's former neighbors turns up dead, the first in a series of corpses that appear, possibly as a result of the duo's turning over old rocks. Since the identity of the killer is revealed relatively early on, the final sections are short on suspense."@en
  • "Nineteen-year-old Tanya Bigelow turns to psychologist Alex Delaware and Los Angeles police detective Milo Sturgis for help when the aunt who raised her confesses to murder on her deathbed."@en
  • "Precis."@en
  • "Alex enlists Milo's help after a former patient approaches him about he aunt's deathbed confession of murder."
  • "Patty Bigelow had finally gotten herself on her feet? bought a home, earned her RN, secured a good job in the ER. And that's when her wild-child sister Leila ran off with a trucker, leaving an eight-year-old daughter on Patty's doorstep. Patty prepares to shoulder the burden as she has so many others, but Tanya proves an unexpected handful. Bewildered, her reluctant guardian enlists the aid of child psychologist Alex Delaware. Fifteen years later, Tanya is a capable, high-strung young woman mourning the loss of her aunt. She's baffled by Patty's last words, a deathbed confession of murder: "One of the people who lived near us."
  • "Patty Bigelow had finally gotten herself on her feet? bought a home, earned her RN, secured a good job in the ER. And that's when her wild-child sister Leila ran off with a trucker, leaving an eight-year-old daughter on Patty's doorstep. Patty prepares to shoulder the burden as she has so many others, but Tanya proves an unexpected handful. Bewildered, her reluctant guardian enlists the aid of child psychologist Alex Delaware. Fifteen years later, Tanya is a capable, high-strung young woman mourning the loss of her aunt. She's baffled by Patty's last words, a deathbed confession of murder: "One of the people who lived near us."@en
  • "Phychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis investigate the aunt of a former patient, after she confesses to a crime shortly before she dies."@en
  • "Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis investigate the aunt of a former patient, after she confesses to a crime shortly before she dies."@en
  • "Alex, the psychologist, and Milo, the LAPD detective, try to solve the confession of murder made by the adoptive mother of a young woman Alex once treated. During their investigation, they uncover a history of evil which is beyond their comprehension."@en
  • "At 40, Patty Bigelow thought she'd finally figured life out. Then her wayward sister Leila abandons her child, Tanya, on Patty's doorstep. The aunt and troubled niece slowly learn to live together, with the help of Dr Alex Delaware's counselling. Now, 15 years later, Tanya is back in Alex's office. Patty has died and left Tanya with a chilling legacy: a deathbed confession that her aunt murdered a man years earlier. Tanya has tried to let go of the confession, but it soon becomes clear that nothing short of finding out the truth will do. And she needs Alex's help."@en

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  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Compact discs"@en
  • "Sound recordings"@en
  • "Thriller stories"@en
  • "Talking books"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
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  • "Adventure / thriller"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
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  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
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