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Self-defense

Jonathan Kellerman

1995390 pagesabout 6–9 hours
1995
first published
  • 1995Bantam Books · 511 pages · ENGISBN 9780553572209
  • 1995Wheeler Pub. · 556 pages · ENGISBN 9781568952062
  • 2003Random House Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9780345463722
  • 1995Bantam Books · 390 pages · ENGISBN 9780553089202

Dr. Alex Delaware doesn't see many private patients anymore, but the young woman called Lucy is an exception. So is her dream. Lucy Lowell is referred to Alex by Los Angeles police detective Milo Sturgis. A juror at the agonizing trial of a serial killer, Lucy survived the trauma only to be tormented by a recurring nightmare: a young child in the forest at night, watching a strange and furtive act.Now Lucy's dream is starting to disrupt her waking life, and Alex is concerned. The power of the dream, its grip on Lucy's emotions, suggests to him that it may be more than a nightmare. It may be the repressed childhood memory of something very real. Something like murder.From the Paperback edition.

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