Frank Carlson Library

The novel pits Ted Cogan, a forty-three-year- old surgeon and self-described womanizer, against Hank Madden, a handicapped veteran detective. From the outset it's not clear who is victim and who is victimizer, as the usually dispassionate Madden grapples with his long-suppressed prejudices and his obsession with bringing Ted Cogan to justice at any cost. It all leads up to the most stunning surprise ending since Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent.|David...

"Rowan McKinnon believes love isn't real. With a botany Ph.D., two best friends who embrace her social quirkiness, and some occasional no-string sex, she thinks she has everything she needs. but she hides deep wounds from the past--from an emotionally negligent mother and a fiancé who treated her like a pawn in a game. The only love she's ever known came from her grandmother Edie, who taught her to care for all things that grow. After a chance encounter...

"The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a shocking past and her dangerous new patient. Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange is certain she knows what's best for her patients, her family, and pretty much everyone else, but that all changes when a troubled young man arrives for his appointment and makes a pair of alarming confessions: I am going to kill someone, and I know who you really...

Jury of his peers: Caroline Lomax is on jury duty and, by sheer coincidence, so is Ted Thomasson. She'd known him when she was twelve and he was fifteen. Back then, she thought he was obnoxious--and she hasn't changed her mind. But other things have changed. Ted's become very attractive, for one. And he certainly knows how to kiss. Now Ted wants Caroline to see him as more than a boy from her past. He wants her to see him as the man she'll marry. Any...

This isn't a love story. This is obsession. Meredith McCall was once a respected New York City psychiatrist. But the night of the accident she lost everything: her husband, her reputation and almost her mind. When she crosses paths with the man whom she shares the most tragic connection, Meredith can't help but follow him. How is Gabriel Wright doing so well when her life is in shambles? Watching Gabriel from afar becomes a compulsion she just can't...

Daniel has to visit the doctor, and he's a little nervous. But with a little help from Mom and Dr. Anna, suddenly the trip isn't so scary anymore.