Los Angeles - the City of Angels - is full of psychopaths; Brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware knows this well. And he, like no one else, knows how to identify them, to single them out from the general mass of people. But, faced with the case of Connie Sykes, a successful and respected doctor who is seeking custody of her sister's little daughter through the courts, Alex begins to feel that perhaps until now he did not understand people at all. Suddenly, a monstrous abyss of human greed, unscrupulousness, cruelty - and madness opened up before him... Kellerman doesn't just write psychological thrillers - he is the master of this genre...