VICTIMS
VICTIMS: Signed hardcover editions now available.
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My first non-Delaware outing since THE BUTCHER’S THEATER. The challenge was to write both from a woman’s perspective and through the eyes of a child. Having treated kids for years, I was pretty sure I pull off the latter. My confidence for handling a female POV was a bit shakier, but I [...]
A good deal of this book is set in a state hospital for the criminally insane. I spent some time in a state hospital for the criminally insane – doing research, not as a patient. The deal was I was allowed entry if I agreed to lecture on writing to a group [...]
My first nonfiction book since HELPING THE FEARFUL CHILD, a book for parents, published in 1981. I was asked by an editor at Random House’s Library of Contemporary Thought to pen a short volume on a topic that interested me. Normally, I’d refuse; writing fiction’s too much fun to set aside for [...]
The image came to me late at night: a faceless medical building in an obscure section of Beverly Hills, comings and goings suggestive of macabre secrets. Toss in political correctness gone creepily wrong, the smarmiest side of academia, organized and disorganized crime, and Delaware at his sharpest. The story is catalyzed by [...]
Readers who love THE BUTCHER’S THEATER often ask me if I’ll ever set another novel in Israel. Probably not; I’ve said what I wanted to say about Jerusalem. However, nearly a decade after introducing Daniel Sharavi, I did find myself missing him. It sounds trite but when one constructs a novel, the [...]
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DR. DEATH
Recent headlines have thrust the question of “Whose life, is it anyway?” to the forefront of our national consciousness. Working in a cancer unit and serving on a committee that struggled to draw up guide-lines about termination of care, I was exposed to the issue decades ago. I propose no facile solutions. [...]