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1) The maidens
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike--particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana's niece Zoe, is found murdered...
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Language
English
Description
The vacation house is a luxurious getaway for a wealthy English family, windows open to sun and the sea, a sparkling swimming pool, and a verdant garden. One hot summer night, while the parents and their friends drink wine and amuse themselves, a young woman--the teenage daughter of the Greek caretaker--ventures for a walk on their private beach. Her life will never be the same again. Ten years later, Julia is the perfect spouse and mother. Slender,...
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Language
English
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"Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown in upstate New York. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele. Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions...
5) Plain Jane
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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Description
Back in college, Jane Lewis would have given anything to be like homecoming queen Connie Bryan. Instead, she was just Plain Jane--overweight, frumpy, and painfully shy. That was then. Today, a lovely and confident Dr. Jane Lewis has a thriving psychotherapy practice, her own radio talk show, a beautiful old Louisiana mansion, and her affectionate, nutty dog, Olive, to keep her company. The only thing missing is someone to share her life.
Jane has...
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Language
English
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"A decade ago, psychologist Frieda Klein was sucked into the orbit of Dean Reeve--a killer able to impersonate almost anyone, a man who can disappear without a trace, a psychopath obsessed with Frieda herself. In the years since, Frieda has worked with--and sometimes against--the London police in solving their most baffling cases. But now she's in hiding, driven to isolation by Reeve. When a series of murders announces his return, Frieda must emerge...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A decade ago, 18-year-old Hannah Docherty was arrested for the shocking murder of her family. It was an open-and-shut case, and Hannah has been incarcerated in a secure psychiatric hospital ever since. When psychotherapist Frieda Klein is asked to meet Hannah and give her assessment, she reluctantly agrees. But what she finds horrifies her. Hannah has become a tragic figure, old before her time. And Frieda is haunted by the idea that Hannah might...
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Language
English
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A disillusioned business executive seeking to escape from his tyrannical father's shadow and a psychotherapist with a tragic past discover unexpected healing, freedom, and love in the solitude of a Miramar Bay retreat.
What to do with a life where everything he's worked for is shattered? A top executive in the family business, Buddy Helms lives and works under the thumb of his powerful father. He's proved himself time and again to the manipulative...
9) Unzipped
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her most famous client, football star "Bomber" Bomstad, suddenly drops dead while making an unwanted pass, cocktail-waitress-turned-shrink Chrissy McMullen finds herself the target of Jack Rivera, a no-nonsense detective who is sure that the sexy psychotherapist has been up to some most unethical behavior.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A bloated corpse turns up in the Thames, throat slashed, and the only clue is a hospital wristband reading Dr. F. Klein. Frieda is taken to see the body and realizes with horror that it is Sandy, her ex-boyfriend. Shes certain that the killer is Dean Reeve--the man who has never stopped haunting her. But the police think he has been dead for years, and Frieda is their number one suspect. With few options, Frieda goes on the run to save herself and...
11) Unmanned
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
The arrival of her brother Pete spells trouble for L.A. psychologist Christina McMullen in the form of a pregnant girlfriend, "borrowed" money, a mobster named "D, " and murder, unless the sexy LAPD Lieutenant Jack Rivera can sort everything out and keep her alive.
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Ruth Lennox, mother of three, is found dead in a pool of her own blood, Frieda Klein is called in to offer a new angle on the murder. But when it emerges that Ruth was leading a double life, Frieda starts down a dangerous path that seems to lead to a serial killer who has escaped detection.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Isabelle arrives for therapy to come to terms with the anger she feels after her father's death, Stella, a successful therapist, is determined to prove she is her daughter.
Three women: one who believes she has found her long lost daughter, one terrified she's about to lose her child, and one determined to understand who she truly is. Stella Widstrand is a psychotherapist, a happily married mother to a thirteen-year-old son. But when a young...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Description
Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted, devoted to her husband, their young son, Henry, and the patients in her therapy practice. Grace is also the author of a forthcoming book in which she castigates women for not valuing their intuition about men. But weeks before the book is published, a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of the man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible...
15) Sunday silence
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
403 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Declared a person of interest when a body is discovered under the floor of her home, London psychologist Frieda Klein realizes that a copycat killer is responsible before she finds herself caught between two obsessive murderers.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Zee Finch, a psychotherapist, has come home to Salem to take care of her ailing father and to try to figure out her own life after the suicide of one of her patients, which was made even more difficult by Zee's past--her mother committed suicide herself, in front of her.
18) Spin doctor
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Question:What do Amy, the new mom; Meriel, the West-Indian housekeeper; Claude and Naomi, the alternative couple; Faith, the elegant widow; and Talia, the super-skinny ballerina have in common? Answer: Abso-freakin'-lutely-nothing! Except that they all live lives of not-so-quiet desperation on the Upper West Side of New York City. What gets them through? Their unusual therapy sessions with supershrink Susan Lederer, held in the depths of the laundry...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Poor Meg Langslow. She's blessed in so many ways. Michael, her boyfriend, is a handsome, delightful heartthrob who adores her. She's a successful blacksmith, known for her artistic wrought-iron creations. But somehow Meg's road to contentment is more rutted and filled with potholes than seems fair. There are Michael's and Meg's doting but demanding mothers, for a start. And then there's the fruitless hunt for a place big enough for the couple to live...
20) Outcast
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Society bachelor and former army sniper Ben Benedict moves between two worlds - from high-society Washington to the mean city streets, from tuxedos to Glocks. His powerful Virginia family wants him out of harm's way, but Ben stays on the job, determined to make amends for a past that haunts him. Dr. Anna Schuster is fighting demons of her own when she crosses paths with Agent Benedict. The two become adversaries - and lovers - as they search for an...