In Los Angeles - the City of Angels - 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 out people from the general mass. But, faced with the case of Connie Sykes, a successful and respected doctor, seeking custody of his own sister's young daughter through the court, 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 in front of him. Kellerman doesn't just write psychological thrillers - he's the master of the genre.