Pre-Owned The Promise of a Lie (Hardcover) 0446529435 9780446529433

A psychologist is framed for murder by a diabolical pa-tient in this superbly-paced, Hitchcockian thriller from the author of The Up and Comer. Dr. David Remler is a brilliant Manhattan psychologist and bestselling author. One afternoon he takes on a new patient, Samantha Kent, a beautiful woman trapped in a relationship with an abusive husband. During their sessions Remler develops more than professional feelings for Samantha-which he never acts upon. Late one night, she calls to say she has killed her husband, and intimates she may kill herself. Remler rushes to her home to find a dead man, but no one else. To skeptical police who believe he is the killer, his story doesn't add up. For starters, Samantha Kent is alive and well and looks nothing like his patient. Remler has been set up, but why-and by whom?This is the story of the ultimate frame, pitting a master manipulator against a genius of the mind-and the game has just begun.