Finished Tu 10/18/21
This is one of my ancient paperbacks that I bought at the library booksale on Fr 6/13/97 and finished on We 9/21/97.
This was the third book in the Dr. Alex Delaware series that was released in 1987.
Jamey Cadmus is a mental patient and caught red handed with a bloody knife in his hand, but did he do it?
The book contains a very interesting commentary about whether LSD or other psychedelics mirror the effects of serious mental illness such as schizophrenia.
The link to Jonathan Kellerman's page on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Kellerman
From the books site at Amazon:
"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 Jamey over the edge—or else someone is getting away with murder."
I would read anything by Kellerman. It's a 'beach or airport read', but always interesting.
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