Carol S. (Coko) reviewed on 3/29/2007 + 30 more book reviews

Hope Devane was found stabbed to death on a quiet street in one of L.A.'s safest neighborhoods. For three months the police have found no clues to her murder, . Hope a psychology professor and controversial author of a pop-psych bestseller, an angry indictment of men. Now Det. Milo Sturgis, newly assigned to the case, turns to his psychologist friend, Dr. Alex Delaware, looking for insights into Devane's life. To both men, the cold stalking of Hope suggests calculation fueled by hate--an execution. They discover why as they unlock, one by one, the very private compartments of her life: her marriage, her shadowy work for a Beverly Hills clinic, the Conduct Committee she ran with an iron hand at the University and her baffling like to another murder victim. But it is when Alex delves into her childhood that he begins to understand the formidable woman she was--and that ties that entangled her life until the horrifying act of betrayal that ended it. Building to a white-knuckle climax in which Alex sets a trap for the killer, THE CLINIC is brilliantly plotted suspense as wrenchingly disturbing as today's headlines.

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