The One With… ... Alex and Milo investigating a double murder at Make-Out Point, that leads them to a prominent celebrity psychologist's involvement.
Released in 2004, it is the 18th novel in Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware series.
The story opens when LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware are called to a gruesome crime scene in the hills above Los Angeles: a young couple found shot to death in a car, the woman also impaled on a metal spike.
Delaware hopes his psychological expertise will yield crucial clues, which leads him to confront Dr. Mary Lou Koppel, a prominent psychologist fiercely protective of her clients’ confidentiality — even after their deaths. As Alex and Milo dig deeper they uncover multiple suspects, hidden motives, and a web of greed, corruption, betrayal and professional intrigue that stretches far beyond a simple double murder.
This novel provides examples of:
- All Women Love Shoes: Christi Marsh and her Jimmy Choos.
- Anorgasmia: Flora Newsome struggles with this.
- Call-Back: The novel starts with Alex describing how the events of Bad Love left Alex hypervigilant when hearing sirens.
- Compensated Dating: Jerry Quick and Angie Park
- Creepy Red Herring: Gavin Quick and Sonny Koppel
- Femme Fatalons: Angie Paul has these.
- Large Ham Radio: Alex and Milo listen to one who hosts a Talk Show that is supposed to interview Dr. Mary Lou Koppel.
- Neat Freak: Roy Nichols
- Obsessively Hyperfixated: Gavin Quick is prone to this after his head injury.
- Petite Pride: Angie Paul felt no need to get implants while working at The Hungry Bull.
- Powerful People Are Subs: Sonny Koppel
- Professional Killer: We later learn that Jerry Quick works as a freelance hitman.
- Sex for Services: Kayla Bartell offers Alex a blow job in exchange for forgetting about her shoplifting.
- Sexy Backless Outfit: Cody Marsh is shocked to see Christi frequently wears such outfits.
- Straw Character: George Issa Qumdis.
- Sticky Fingers: Alex catches Kayla Bartell stealing cosmetics, something she confesses she does frequently.
- Speed Sex: Gavin Quick was prone to premature ejaculation.
- Stalker with a Crush: Gavin Quick for Beth Gallegos
- The Alcoholic: Sheila Quick
- The Reliable One: As always, Olivia Bickerman comes through with key information for Alex.