Publisher's Synopsis
OVER THE EDGE: The case against Jamey Cadmus seems open and shut. Found clutching a bloody knife at the scene of a horrifying double murder, he's a prime suspect in a series of killings that have rocked Los Angeles. Even his lawyer won't do more than plead diminished responsibility. No one - not the police, not the family, not the lawyers - wants Alex Delaware lifting up stones. But under those stones lies something unspeakable. BLOOD TEST: Little Woody Swope was gravely ill. But his parents, members of a bizarre sect, threatened to take him out of hospital. Then Woody was gone. So were the Swopes, leaving their motel suite heavily bloodstained. Enter Alex Delaware, child psychologist, and LA cop Milo Sturgis, who find a heap of suspects - an ageing ex-hippy doctor; a back-country police chief; a male stripper; a flame-haired Lolita with hate in her eyes and larceny in her soul. But the truth was more bizarre than even Alex could have imagined.
