Book description
Nearly a year after Pittsburgh psychologist and trauma expert Daniel
Rinaldi helped unravel a baffling murder, he finds himself drawn into
another case. On a blistering summer day, a bank robbery goes wrong,
resulting in the deaths of all the hostages except Treva Williams.
Rinaldi is called in by police to treat Treva. But an unforseen series
of events plunges the investigating officers, Sergeant Harry Polk and
Detective Eleanor Lowrey-as well as Rinaldi-into a vortex of mistaken
identity, kidnapping, and revelations about District Attorney Leland
Sinclair's gubernatorial campaign. Is Sinclair somehow involved in
surprising bank case. Rinaldi's attention is diverted by the suicide of
a young patient and his growing attraction to Eleanor, as the
recently-divorced Harry Polk spirals into an alcohol-driven,
self-destructive free-fall. Then sudden death threats against Sinclair
fuel a new frenzy of accusations and political maneuvering, and Rinaldi
begins to make connections. Soon, what he knows-or thinks he knows-will
pull him toward a shocking and possibly lethal confrontation. DENNIS
PALUMBO, MA, MFT, is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice,
specializing in creative issues. He co-wrote the screenplay for the
award-winning My Favorite Year and other films, numerous TV episodes and
pilots, and the novel City Wars. Palumbo writes the highly popular “The
Writer's Life” column in Written By, the magazine of the Writer's Guild
of America, and his work helping writers has been profiled in Premiere
magazine, the LA Times, and on CNN.
