Devil's Waltz: An Alex Delaware NovelNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In one of the most frightening and challenging cases of his career, Dr. Alex Delaware must confront a strange medical mystery involving a child. “Reads like wildfire . . . harrowing suspense.”—The New York Times Book Review Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones is the picture of health. Yet her parents rush her to the emergency room night after night with symptoms no doctor can explain. Cassie’s parents seem genuinely concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of devotion. When Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him that one of them could be a monster. Then a physician is brutally murdered. A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and his friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, have only hours to uncover the link between Cassie’s terrifying condition and these shocking, seemingly unrelated events. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 9 |
Section 3 | 28 |
Section 4 | 41 |
Section 5 | 49 |
Section 6 | 68 |
Section 7 | 82 |
Section 8 | 93 |
Section 20 | 267 |
Section 21 | 274 |
Section 22 | 283 |
Section 23 | 298 |
Section 24 | 322 |
Section 25 | 335 |
Section 26 | 348 |
Section 27 | 355 |
Section 9 | 109 |
Section 10 | 126 |
Section 11 | 139 |
Section 12 | 158 |
Section 13 | 176 |
Section 14 | 188 |
Section 15 | 201 |
Section 16 | 210 |
Section 17 | 232 |
Section 18 | 250 |
Section 19 | 255 |
Section 28 | 376 |
Section 29 | 391 |
Section 30 | 405 |
Section 31 | 435 |
Section 32 | 440 |
Section 33 | 444 |
Section 34 | 449 |
Section 35 | 453 |
Section 36 | 457 |
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