Over the Edge

When the phone rings in
the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not
hesitate. Driving through the dream-lit San Fernando Valley, Alex rushes
to Jamey Cadmus, the patient he had failed five years before-and who
now calls with a bizarre cry for help. But by the time Alex reaches
Canyon Oaks Psychiatric Hospital, Jamey is gone, surfacing a day later
in the hands of the police, who believe Jamey is the infamous Lavender
Slasher, a psychotic serial killer. Wooed by a high-powered attorney to
build a defense, Alex will get a chance to do what he couldn't five
years ago. And when he peers into a family's troubled history and
Jamey's brilliant, tormented mind, the psychologist puts himself at the
heart of a high-profile case. Because Alex knows that in a realm of
money, loss, and madness, something terrible pushed Jamie over the
edge-or else someone is getting away with murder.