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Time for another look at Alex Delaware’s personal life and history. I suppose I need to do this every few years to make sure I’m delivering authentic goods to my readers. This time, AD is the target of a shadowy psychopath intent on carefully-crafted revenge, for reasons unknown to our dear doctor. [...]
Working as a hospital psychologist for a decade and a half, I’d heard about Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome – a bizarre form of child abuse in which parents simulate illness in their kids. Very little had been written about MBPD and many psychologists and psychiatrists – and the vast majority of non-psychiatric [...]
Here I tried to tackle the classic missing woman-of-mystery tale and infuse it with a bit of Gothic novel (defined as: “Young girl experiences strange happenings in extremely large house.”) Some moron reviewing for the New York Times detested the book and savaged it as “thin gruel.” Ruth Rendell, one of the [...]
This was my attempt to write a quasi-political novel, within the context of an Alex Delaware crime story. I’ve met a few politicians in my day and I wish I could say the experience has been spiritually uplifting. There’s some pretty strange and nasty stuff out in the world of power-brokering and [...]
Time to get back to Dr. Delaware. If I was going to write a bunch more books featuring AD, I needed to know him better. This novel features Alex as the main character rather than as a therapist/detective/foil for other people’s actions and emotions. Always struggling to stretch within the confines of [...]
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SELF-DEFENSE
In this one, I set out to address a theme that has intrigued me for years: the lack of correlation between artistic talent and nobility of character. I’ve addressed the issue in an essay for the British arts journal, MODERN PAINTER, and in my non-fiction book SAVAGE SPAWN: REFLECTIONS ON VIOLENT CHILDREN. [...]