A novel on mental illness, narrated by a man whose twin brother, a schizophrenic, amputates his hand as atonement for his sins. The novel describes the family abuse that led to the illness and the narrator's efforts to obtain the brother's release from an asylum.

"A murdered woman. A grieving husband. And their son---a mentally handicapped adult with a history of violent outbursts. A very simple case. Or is it?" -- Cover verso.

Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy's help in cataloging items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past....

Retired Santa Fe police chief Kevin Kerney is horrified to learn that his horse-training partner, Riley Burke, has been murdered by an escaped prisoner, prompting Kerney to team up with his half-Apache son to hunt down the killer.

"A chilling psychological thriller about how far some will go to maintain control--and exact revenge. When a young girl is found dead in Seryong Lake, a reservoir in a remote South Korean village, the police immediately begin their investigation. At the same time, three men--Yongje, the girl's father, and two security guards at the nearby dam, each of whom has something to hide about the night of her death--find themselves in an elaborate game of...

Psychologist Robert Rainey is stuck in a boring job at a small mental health clinic when one of his patients mysteriously disappeared. But not to worry, the patient showed up, alright. In Robert's psyche. Repeatedly. And he brought a few persistent themes with him. Over time, the living nightmare threatened to consume his very existence. He found a few potential answers to the dilemma along the way, all to no avail, while his wife had a front row...