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Book Review of Flesh and Blood (Alex Delaware, Bk 15)

Flesh and Blood  (Alex Delaware, Bk 15)
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On back of book: Lauren Teague is a beautiful, defiant borderline delinquent teenager when her parents bring her to Dr. Alex Delaware's office. Lauren angrily resists Alex's help and the psychologist is forced to chalk Lauren up as one of the inevitable failures of his profession. Years later, when Alex and Lauren come face to face in a shocking encounter, both doctor and patient are stricken with shame. But the ultimate horror takes place when, soon after, Lauren'a brutalized corpse is found dumped in an alley. Alex disregards the advice of his trusted friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, and jeopardizes his relationship with longtime lover, Robin Castagna, in order to persue Lauren's killer. As he investigates his young patient's troubled past, Alex enters the shadowy worlds of fringe psychology experimentation and the sex industry- and then into mortal danger, when lust and big money collide in an unforgiving LA