Blinded

Zusatztext "Absorbing.... White is known for his surprise endings! and this one is no exception. ... an engrossing addition to an excellent series."— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Stephen White is a clinical psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Cold Case, Manner of Death, Critical Conditions, Remote Control, Harm's Way, Higher Authority, Private Practices , and Privileged Information . He lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife and son. Klappentext In his latest masterwork of psychological suspense! the New York Times bestselling author of The Program! Warning Signs! and The Best Revenge peers into a troubled marriage to craft a shattering tale of secrecy! eroticism! betrayal! and murder. Psychologist Alan Gregory is juggling his responsibilities as a father! a husband! and doctor when a beautiful woman walks into his office with an astounding admission. Gibbs Storey believes that her husband may have murdered a woman. Then! Gibbs stuns Alan again with another revelation: She thinks there are other victims...and her husband is not finished killing yet. Chapter One Alan Nine-fifteen on Monday morning. My second patient of the day. Gibbs Storey hadn’t changed much in the ten years since I’d last seen her. If anything, she appeared to be even more of a model of physical perfection than she’d been in the mid-nineties. I guessed yoga, maybe Pilates. Her impeccable complexion hadn’t suddenly become pocked with acne or ravaged by psoriasis, nor had her high cheekbones dropped to mortal levels. Her blond hair was shorter but no less radiant, and her eyes were the same sky blue I remembered. The absence of any wrinkles radiating around them caused me to wonder about a recent Botox poke, but I quickly surmised that Gibbs’s fair skin would probably never be susceptible to the tracks of age. She’d be in possession of some magic gene, and she’d be immune. She’d always had beauty karma. Along with popularity karma. And the ever-elusive charm karma. She didn’t have marriage karma, though. I’d first met Gibbs and her husband, Sterling, when they came to see my clinical psychology partner, Diane Estevez, and me for therapy for their troubled relationship. Diane and I saw them conjointly—a quaint, almost anachronistic therapeutic modality that involved pairing a couple of patients with a couple of therapists in the same room at the same time—for only three sessions. Ironically, with therapy fees being what they are and managed care being what it is, Diane and I hadn’t done a conjoint case together since that final session with Gibbs and Sterling Storey. After they’d abruptly canceled their fourth session and departed Boulder—“Dr. Gregory, Sterling got that job he wanted in L.A.! Isn’t that wonderful!” Gibbs informed me breathlessly in the voicemail she’d left along with her profound thanks for how helpful we’d been—neither Diane nor I had heard a word from either of them. That was true, at least, until Gibbs called, said she was back in town, and asked me for an individual appointment. Gibbs’s call requesting the individual appointment had come ten days before, on a Friday. My few free slots the following week didn’t meet any of her needs, so we’d settled on the Monday morning time. At the time she had accepted the week-and-a-half delay graciously. In the interim between her call and her first appointment, I’d pulled her thin file from a box in the storage area that was stuffed with the records of old, inactive cases and examined my sparse notes. The few lines of intake and progress reports that I’d scrawled after the conjoint sessions told me less than did my memory, but I didn’t need copious notes to remind me that Diane and I hadn’t been all that helpful to Gibbs and Sterling. Couples therapy is not individual therapy with two people....

Product details

• Authors: Stephen White
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.03.2005
• EAN: 9780440237433
• ISBN: 978-0-440-23743-3
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 172 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Alan Gregory; Alan Gregory
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense