Lessons of Evil

Portland, Oregon, 1989. Respected psychologist Laura Covington makes the life changing decision to give up her cushy corporate job and devote herself to community mental health. She desires a needier, grittier case load, and does she ever get it. She could never have anticipated the destructive secrets she exposes at her new job in the Oregon desert.

Laura's private life changes as radically as her professional life. She has envisioned herself free to do as she will. But when she moves, it is not alone. She must take along her barracuda of a mother, too fragile after a fall to continue living alone. In addition, Laura inherits a troubled child from a former client. Becoming a mother at forty was the last thing on her mind. Well maybe it wasn't as unexpected as the romance that walks smack into her heart.

At community mental health, Laura's new clients are nearer society's bottom rungs than her old corporate clientele's issues with rage management or alcohol abuse. There's the schizophrenic Diaper Man and the lad who lives with Vampirism and Woodrow in his aluminum cone hat. One of her new clients is so traumatized he has more than one personality with which he faces the world. Through him, Laura becomes convinced that, behind the scenes, a psychopath posing as head of a cult is actually using mental and physical torture to "create" an army of troubled souls that responds to his every wish.

Laura fights back as ethically as she knows how. But the tension and terror escalate when those she loves are threatened, tortured or murdered. Laura comes face to face with how far she is willing to go to protect her own.

The mental and physical battle between protagonist and psychopath is psychological suspense at its best. LESSONS OF EVIL shares themes with classics by Andrew Vachss, Val McDermid, and Thomas Harris.

LINDA B. MYERS won her first creative contest in the sixth grade for her Clean Up Fix Up Paint Up poster. This started a marketing career in Chicago. A few years back, she turned in her stilettos for rain boots and moved to the Pacific Northwest with her grumpy dachshund and noisy parrot. LESSONS OF EVIL is her first novel. Visit her at www.lindabmyers.com |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc. |||This book is sold in Canada by Sony Electronics Inc.

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  May 18, 2011 

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