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"One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but. As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives, she finds...
Author
Series
Frieda Klein novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
Declared a person of interest when a body is discovered under the floor of her home, London psychologist Frieda Klein realizes that a copycat killer is responsible before she finds herself caught between two obsessive murderers.
Declared a person of interest when a body is discovered under the floor of her home, London psychologist Frieda Klein realizes that a copycat killer is responsible. As the days pass-- and the body count rises-- Klein finds...
Author
Series
Frieda Klein novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"A decade ago, 18-year-old Hannah Docherty was arrested for the shocking murder of her family. It was an open-and-shut case, and Hannah has been incarcerated in a secure psychiatric hospital ever since. When psychotherapist Frieda Klein is asked to meet Hannah and give her assessment, she reluctantly agrees. But what she finds horrifies her. Hannah has become a tragic figure, old before her time. And Frieda is haunted by the idea that Hannah might...
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English
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"Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown in upstate New York. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele. Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"You never know who's watching. . . . A successful therapist's world is upended when her patients are targeted in a campaign of twisted psychological harassment in this propulsive novel from the author of Convince Me. What is the cost of carrying not onlyyour own pain, but others' too? Dr. Laina Landers is good at her job. She's an accomplished marriage and family therapist, dedicated and compassionate. When she is summoned by the police after one...
Author
Series
Frieda Klein novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The electrifying fourth book in the internationally bestselling Frieda Klein Mystery series Drawn to brilliant and solitary London psychotherapist Frieda Klein, a growing readership is discovering Nicci French's acclaimed series with each chilling installment. In Thursday's Children, Frieda faces her most personal case yet when a former classmate appears at Frieda's door, begging for her help. Maddie Capel's teenage daughter, Becky, claims that she...
Author
Series
Miramar Bay novels volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A disillusioned business executive seeking to escape from his tyrannical father's shadow and a psychotherapist with a tragic past discover unexpected healing, freedom, and love in the solitude of a Miramar Bay retreat.
Author
Publisher
Hudson Street Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Claire Bidwell Smith was just fourteen years old when both of her parents were diagnosed with cancer within months of each other. As her mother begins to succumb during Claire's first year of college, Claire hurtles towards loss. She throws herself into the arms of anything she thinks might hold her up: boys, alcohol, traveling, and the anonymity of big cities. In New York, she studies writing and learns the ways of the world, falling in and out of...
Author
Series
Frieda Klein novels volume 3
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
While consulting on the murder of a housewife who was hiding a shocking secret, brilliant psychotherapist Frieda Klein is brought closer to a serial killer who has long escaped detection and wonders if she is solving both cases or if she just the victim of her own paranoid, fragile mind.
11) The maidens
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike-particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one member, a friend of Mariana's niece Zoe, is found murdered...
Author
Series
Meg Langslow mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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English
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Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in a way she didn't understand. She suspected it was because she didn't feel things the way other kids did. Emotions like fear, guilt, and empathy eluded her. For the most part, she felt nothing. And she didn't like the way that "nothing" felt. She did her best to pretend she was like everyone else, but the constant pressure...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When a relationship therapist gets dumped right before her new dating handbook hits shelves, she fake dates to save face in this spicy romantic comedy. There are a lot of things that can go wrong on an author's publication day, but breaking up with her long-term boyfriend might just be top of Jessica Gallagher's list. She also didn't expect to run into her old crush, Galvin Baker, the very next day. When Jessica goes into crisis mode about the PR...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Psychotherapist Victoria Vick becomes obsessed with a patient who claims to be a scientist who has stolen cloaking technology from the government in order to render himself nearly invisible. Over time, this obsession threatens her career, her marriage, and her own identity.
16) Tea and destiny
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Tea and destiny: Therapist Ann Davies hesitates in building a relationship with contractor Hank Riley. Light the stars: Single father Wade Dalton deals with his mother's elopement and with a new nanny.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A powerful, vibrant novel about the life-changing weekend shared between two strangers, from the award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls "a consummate storyteller." On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home when she spots a man precariously standing on the edge of a bridge. Without a second thought, Tallie pulls over and jumps out of the car into the pouring rain. She convinces the man to join...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A famous psychotherapist is forced to steal thirteen paintings from the world's renowned museums and private collections to prevent his suffering from terrible nightmares he has as a result of subliminal messaging he received as a child. Accompanied by his four patients, he and his band of thieves strike regularly and with great success: the Louvre, Tate, Uffizi, Hermitage, the Museum of Modern Art.
20) The rookie
Author
Series
Looking to score volume 3
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In order to save his hockey career, Boston Titans rookie Logan Tate must meet with a sports therapist before returning to the ice, but doesn't expect therapist Summer Campbell to follow him to his family's home in Lost Haven, Colorado--or to find their connection is much more than professional.
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