Stephen White

The grisly slaying shatters the quiet of a residential neighborhood in the foothills of the Rockies. The battered body of Boulder County District Attorney Royal Peterson lies amid shards of broken pottery while his wife sleeps upstairs. Within hours, a homicide detective is the prime suspect in the brutal death that will send shock waves through the city and reverberate in the professional and personal life of Alan Gregory.

"Every precious thing I lose, you will lose two." The Program begins with a condemned man's last words to New Orleans District Attorney Kirsten Lord. After her husband is gunned down in front of her, Lord has no choice but to flee the wrath of the murderer's vengeance. Lord pulls up stakes, changes her name, and accepts the Witness Protection Program's offer to hide her and her young daughter in Boulder, Colorado. Soon thereafter, they are befriended...

Buried beneath the snows of the Colorado Rockies. Filed away in the annals of unsolved crimes. The grisly double murder of two teenage girls who went out one crisp autumn evening only to be found the following spring, their young bodies mutilated. A crime that left two families and a quiet mountain community irrevocably scarred.

An HMO in Boulder, Colorado, refuses to pay for experimental treatment which might save a little girl with a heart ailment. When the HMO's director is murdered, suspicion falls on the girl's sister. Psychologist Alan Gregory investigates.

In a community theater in Boulder, Colorado, a man is tortured and left to bleed to death atop a concert piano. Psychologist-investigator Dr. Alan Gregory, a friend of the victim, finds that the man's belongings point to a mysterious hidden life. By the author of Higher Authority.

When his colleague dies under mysterious circumstances, psychologist Alan Gregory finds himself questioning the integrity of those closest to him, tracking an elusive patient, and looking for clues within the complex mind of a client.

"It has been many years since the mayhem was unleashed in Privileged Information. Now Michael McClelland, the brilliant, determined murderer introduced in the first Alan Gregory novel, has left the Colorado State Mental Hospital - and he's coming after Alan's family. The timing couldn't be deadlier; like a wounded animal, Alan is in a deeply vulnerable state, facing severe doubts about his professional life, his marriage, and his own psyche. And McClelland...

Alan Gregory is finally beginning to feel settled, hopeful that a long period of upheaval in his private life is behind him. He refocuses his energy on his clinical psychology practice, where a beguiling new patient is challenging his values. The interlude of calm doesn't last, of course: Alan's dear friend Diane is showing signs of a long-simmering emotional collapse, and Alan's greatest fear, the exposure of his most dangerous secret, has become...