Flesh and Blood

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Lauren Teague is a
beautiful, defiant, borderline-delinquent teenager when her parents
bring her to Alex Delaware's office. But for all Alex's skill and
effort, Lauren resists--angrily, provocatively. Reluctantly, the
psychologist chalks Lauren up as one of the inevitable failures of a
challenging profession. But years later, when Alex encounters Lauren as
a stag party's featured entertainment, both doctor and patient are
stricken with shame. And the ultimate horror takes place when, soon
after, Lauren's brutalized corpse is found dumped in an alley. Alex
disregards the advice of his trusted friend, LAPD detective Milo
Sturgis, and jeopardizes his relationship with longtime lover Robin
Castagna in order to pursue Lauren's murderer. As he investigates his
young patient's troubled past, Alex enters the shadowy worlds of fringe
psychological experimentation and the sex industry, and then into mortal
danger when lust and big money collide in Southern California.Jonathan Kellerman's L.A. is evil, seductive, erotic, and unforgiving, and Flesh and Blood
is mind-opening in its drama of a driven man's personal quest,
breathtaking in its ingenious plot, filled with unforgettable
characters, and topped off by a terrifying climax. This is suspense
fiction as its best.