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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780345460714
ISBN number: 0345460715
Label: Ballantine Books
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Page Count: 528
Printing Date: December 02, 2003
Publishing house: Ballantine Books
Release Date: December 02, 2003
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The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy, the terrifying disease that causes parents to induce illness in their own children. Now, in his most frightening case, Dr. Alex Delaware may have to prove that a child's own mother or father is making her sick.
Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones is bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yet her parents rush her to the emergency room night after night with medical symptoms no doctor can explain. Cassie's parents seem sympathetic and deeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of devotion. Yet when child psychologist Alex Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him that one of them may be a monster.
Then a physician at the hospital is brutally murdered. A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and his friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis have only hours to uncover the link between these shocking events and the fate of an innocent child.
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I found Devil's Waltz to be a fast, exciting read and can thoroughly recommend it. Psychologist/detective, Dr.Alex Delaware is called as a consultant to a case in a run down hospital in Los Angeles, where a 21 month old girl,Cassie Jones, is brought repeatedly, suffering from inexplicable symptoms, ranging from breathing difficulties to gastro intestinal problems. The doctors run all the usual tests on her but can find no obvious cause of her illnesses. Suspicion focuses on her mother, Cindy, a nervous young woman who is married to the son of a multi millionaire, Chuck Jones. Departments are being closed down at this particular hospital where the finances are now in the control of Jones, and the whole structure of the institution is being allowed to slide into decay. The ugly spectre of Munchausen's by proxy occurs to both Alex and the other doctors who monitor Cindy's visits to Cassie but can find no evidence to support their theory. Readers who love Jonathan Kellerman's work will relish this book.
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Perhaps the author is paid by the word, we get full details of carpet colour and type, wallpaper colors, the artwork, name dropping at its worst, medical terms that I didn't know and weren't explained,Kellerman seems to get to the heart of the mystery too soon and then it drags and drags to the end, it will help the insomniacs to get some rest though.
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This one starts off kind of dry - lots of technical psychobabble, but it
is interesting - in an arid kind of way. Alex is called in on a consult
to evaluate a situation involving a little 2 year old girl. Cassie has
been in and out of the hospital multiple times and no one can figure out
why. Is it a case of Munchausen by Proxy? Is Cassie's mother making her
own child ill just for attention? It's an ugly suspicion and Alex feels
very duplicitous in his evaluation - becoming friendly with Cindy, the
girl's mother, in order to spy on her, but the alternative is a dead
child, so Alex accepts the challenge.
The truth of the situation is even more heinous and when the bodies
start accumulating and the suspect list starts growing, Alex turns to
his old pal Milo for help and things get really interesting. Detective
Milo Sturgis has been demoted following an assault on a superior officer
and he's been relegated to a boring data processing position, but he's
moonlighting as a private detective and he uses the police computers for
research in order to help Alex with background info on all the players
in this potentially tragic drama. And drama it is, complete with cloak
and dagger shadow government involvement that borders on scary.
It's great watching Alex toss around all these conspiracy theories while
Milo puts it all on the line for his friend. As they both dig, the story
they uncover is more convoluted than they could have imagined and when
all is said and done, they get help from a very unexpected source.
Like I said, I just love Milo.
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This is my favorite Jonathan Kellerman novel. The book focuses on a disturbing story about Munchausen's Disease by Proxy. This book so quickly caught my interest, that I ended up doing my psych 101 paper on this disease. I had not heard of this disorder when I read the book. It was disturbing, intense, and tore away at your heart. I would definitely recommend this book! Munchausen's Disease seems to have become a more popular topic since I read this book. I have seen countless documentaries on, and it was also featured in the newest episode of House. It is a disturbing, yet intriguing disease, and this book delves straight into the ugliest form of it, Munchausen's Disease by Proxy.
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Another classic from Kellerman! Kellerman's psychologist/sleuth Alex Delaware nimbly executes tricky steps of his own when called in to consult on the mysterious ailments afflicting a baby being seen at his training hospital in Los Angeles. In his seventh appearance (after Private Eyes ), Delaware is in top form, carefully pursuing the possibility that 21-month-old Cassie Jones may be the victim of Munchausen's Disease by Proxy, a complex syndrome in which a parent, usually the mother, secretly causes the symptoms that endanger the child. That Cassie is the only grandchild of the hospital's new CEO, a corporate hotshot who has demoralized the staff with cutbacks and a new administration of "paramilitary types," adds political twists to the case's knotty psychological aspects. After a doctor involved in computer research is murdered in the hospital parking lot, Delaware calls on his friend Milo, a gay LAPD homicide cop currently serving as an input clerk. They link an earlier murder to the hospital and then key into a secret federal investigation, all the while trying to keep Cassie safe. With familiar characters, including Delaware's woodworking girlfriend Robin, and some well-developed new ones, notably the hospital's thuggish security head and an uptight pediatric nurse, Kellerman steadily turns up the suspense, reserving some surprises to spring near the end of this intricate tale, the best of recent Alex Delaware stories.
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