circles-has strong connections to La Casa too! Could all this be just a coincidence? Alex thinks not as more gruesome corpses proliferate, he does some checking into La Casa's guru, his staff, and their brigade of volunteers. Furthermore, little Melody's pediatrician-a big wheel in M.D. Meanwhile, the Milo/Alex sleuthing focuses on Handler's patients and on his girlfriend-both of whom turn out to have connections to La Casa de Los Ninos, a home for disturbed/retarded children. (Alex discovered the suicide-ravaged body of the molester in his office.) It's very reluctantly, then, that Alex agrees to help his pal, gay cop Milo, with a murder case: psychiatrist Morton Handler and girlfriend have been killed in his apartment, and the only witness who saw the killer is emotionally fragile child Melody-the daughter of the apartment-complex manager. child psychologist Alex Delaware, who's "retired" (at 33) after having something of a nervous breakdown-following his consultant work on a harrowing child-molestation case. The narrator-sleuth in this rather overwrought psycho-mystery is L.A.
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