Murderer Michael McClelland has been locked away in a psychiatric institution since the grisly murders he committed in Privileged Information, but now he's escaped. Having vowed vengeance on psychologist Alan Gregory and his prosecutor wife Lauren, Alan's hypervigilant. Despite that, he doesn't notice a handbag apparently abandoned in the front yard of his shared practice - until a patient brings it to him. When close friend and cop Milo Sturgess comes to the door and asks to see it, Alan thinks little of it. but Milo's there in his official role and, with a witness missing and the fate of a cop killer trial at stake, he's not going to let friendship get in the way.
The staged purse is just the beginning, and Alan finds himself sinking deeper and deeper into a morass of apparent guilt engineered by a cunning and clever psychopath. As McClelland comes ever closer to home, Alan is unprepared for a a different, devastating loss and an unexpected addition to his family.
As I've mentioned before, White's writing is deft and is plotting fast-paced. I thoroughly enjoyed this latest addition to the stable, but thing a break before the next Alan Gregory novel wouldn't be a bad thing for me. - Alex
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