Devil's Waltz (Alex Delaware)

ISBN: 9780345460714

作者: Jonathan Kellerman

出版社: Ballantine Books

出版年: 2003-12-02

页数: 528

定价: USD 7.99

装帧: Mass Market Paperback

内容简介

The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy, theterrifying disease that causes parents to induceillness in their own children. Now, in his mostfrightening case, Dr. Alex Delaware may have to provethat a child's own mother or father is making hersick.

Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jonesis bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yether parents rush her to the emergency room nightafter night with medical symptoms no doctor canexplain. Cassie's parents seem sympathetic anddeeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model ofdevotion. Yet when child psychologist AlexDelaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells himthat one of them may be a monster.

Thena physician at the hospital is brutally murdered.A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and hisfriend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis have only hoursto uncover the link between these shocking eventsand the fate of an innocent child.