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At the heart of Gardner's outstanding fourth novel featuring Boston PD
detective Warren (after The Neighbor) are some very sick kids, notably
Lucy, a nine-year-old feral girl who self-mutilates when any attention
is given to her, and Evan, an eight-year-old boy who during fits
threatens to kill his mother. D.D gets involved after two grisly family
annihilations lead to the locked-down pediatric psych ward in Cambridge
that specializes in Lucy's and Evan's types of hard case. When a child
is too sick and the parent can no longer handle care, the child ends up
in the acute care facility under the tutelage of pediatric psych nurse
Danielle, the lone survivor of her own family bloodbath. Coincidence?
That's for D.D. to figure out--in the midst of a budding romance with
police academy professor Alex Wilson and infuriating encounters with
Andrew Lightfoot, resident "woo-woo expert" (that's cop talk for psychic),
who works in tandem with the hospital. Plenty of red herrings keep readers
guessing, but Gardner always plays fair in this tight and consistently
engaging page-turner.

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