A Desperate Silence - Tapa blanda

Forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange has matched wits with some of the most twisted minds in the American criminal system, and survived. Now, she finds herself struggling to reach a ten-year-old girl found by police who has been terrified into utter silence. As Sylvia slowly works her way into the girl's scarred psyche and gains her trust, she realizes that what her patient witnessed may still pose a threat to someone very powerful. Someone who may want the child dead. Her suspicions are confirmed when an attempt is made on the girl's life by a hired assassin, and Sylvia discovers a conspiracy that reaches from a death row inmate to the drug lords of Mexico. Now, Sylvia must protect her helpless ward, and unravel the mystery of the young girl's life -- before a ruthless killer ends it....

Sarah Lovett worked as a researcher at the New Mexico State Penitentiary. She is the author of Dangerous Attachments, Acquired Motives, and Dantes' Inferno, and her newest, Dark Alchemy, coming soon from Simon and Schuster. Raised in California, she now makes her home in Santa Fe. Visit her Web site at www.sarahlovett.com.