From the acclaimed author of Amnesia and Addiction comes the story of a paranoid man accused of killing his wife-is he ill, or is he a great actor trying to get away with murder? Forensic neuropsychologist at Boston's prestigious Pearce Psychiatric Center and expert defense witness Peter Zak regularly testifies at murder trials on issues like a defendant's conception of right and wrong or the reliability of a witness's memory. This time a lawyer...

When the country singer ex-wife of a U.S. president is sensationally murdered during a concert performance, forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett endeavors to learn the victim's role in her demise as well as the murder's relevance for the president.

In New Mexico, a woman psychiatrist blocks the release of a convicted killer on grounds that he is a sociopathic madman. The ruling incurs the wrath of the convict's father, a state senator, and of the convict's brother who starts stalking her.

A tale of drug smuggling on the Mexican border featuring Dr. Sylvia Strange, a psychologist who is asked to treat a girl struck dumb by a car accident in New Mexico. Instead, she spends most of her time protecting her because the girl knows too much and a drug lord is trying to kill her. By the author of Dangerous Attachments.

Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett is called to the scene of an aircraft inbound from London to help deal with a passenger who is behaving erratically. She figures out that he's got anterograde amnesia, and can't form new memories. Suddenly a string of clues arises, something to do with a super deadly biological agent code-named "Slick," a missing wife and son, and a secret partnership gone horribly wrong. Jo realizes her patient's addled mind may hold...