New york times bestselling authorsweeping from mexico city to the dark underbelly of la, the silent widow has all the trademark glamour, suspense and unexpected twists of a classic sidney sheldon novel.A young american au pair, charlotte clancy, vanishes without a trace in mexico city. The case is left cold, but its legacy will be devastating.A decade later, la is shaken by a spate of violent murders. Psychologist nikki roberts is the common link between the victims, her patients at the heart of this treacherous web.When someone makes an attempt on nikkis life, its clear she is a marked woman.Nikki makes a living out of reading people, drawing out their secrets, but the key to this shocking pattern eludes her. With the police at a dead end nikki drafts in derek williams, a pi who isnt afraid to put his hand into the hornets nest. Williams was thwarted in the notorious charlotte clancy case all those years ago, but what he unearths in la and the mention of one name in particular leaves him cold, and takes him on a dangerous path into the past.A shadowy manipulator has brought his deadly game to the streets of la. In a crime spanning generations, it seems nikki roberts knows all too much and a ruthless killer knows the price of her silence.In this crooked city, where enemies and friends are one and the same, nikki must be the master of her own escape . . Read more.