This disturbing thriller asks a fundamental question: can you always depend on a mother's love?
This disturbing thriller asks a fundamental question: can you always depend on a mother's love?
It's a living hell...
Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones has spent most of her short life in and out of Western Paediatrics Hospital. Cassie is persistently, seriously ill and when no amount of testing can identify the cause, her doctor is lead to a disturbing diagnosis Cassies mother could be making her daughter deliberately sick. Child psychologist Alex Delaware is brought in to make an independent assessment of the Jones family. But Alex's attempts to find the answers and save a young girls life will reveal a terrifying circle of corruption, abuse and murderous hatred.“Strong insights into the quirks of human and criminal behaviour”
- Guardian
Filled with insight - Stephen KingCoolly intelligent - GQA sense of humanity and justice - Publishers WeeklyAn alert eye for detail - New York TimesAfter a distinguished career in child psychology, Jonathan Kellerman turned to writing full-time, and there are now over thirty million copies of his novels in print. He is also the author of two volumes of psychology. He lives in Southern California with his wife, the novelist Faye Kellerman, and their four children.
It's a living hell...Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones has spent most of her short life in and out of Western Paediatrics Hospital. Cassie is persistently, seriously ill and when no amount of testing can identify the cause, her doctor is lead to a disturbing diagnosis Cassies mother could be making her daughter deliberately sick.Child psychologist Alex Delaware is brought in to make an independent assessment of the Jones family. But Alex's attempts to find the answers and save a young girls life will reveal a terrifying circle of corruption, abuse and murderous hatred.
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