When seemingly naive delivery "boy" Jimmy Weir murders two elderly women, forensic psychologist Portia McTeague is called in to judge if he is mentally unbalanced and becomes both drawn and disgusted by his madness, as disturbing memories of her own past resurface as she finds the cause of Jimmy's insanity.
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Dr. Faye Sultan, the director of University Psychological Associates in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a forensic psychologist who has consulted on some of the most high-profile murder cases in the country.
Teresa Kennedy, who lives in New York City, is a former book editor and a professional writer with more than thirty books to her credit. Her most recent work, Welcome to the End of the World: Prophecy, Rage and the New Age, is an examination of millennial movements in popular culture and their effect on social psychology.
from experience that all the passions look alike--love and hate, fear and rage, envy and helpless need...Jimmy Wier was charged with a total of three counts of murder, all elderly women...Blood found on his clothes matched that of two of the victims, and he was also found in possession of some jewelry and an African violet plant taken from one of them. Portia would have to try to discover what had gone on in his mind, and to put those findings before a jury...She had taken Jimmy's case because inside the twisted workings of his mind and soul was something she needed to know--and she wanted to ask him about the African violet...
Portia McTeague is a forensic psychologist, called in by the defense to examine Jimmy Wier, who is charged with two brutal murders that have shocked a sleepy Southern town. A politically ambitious--and morally corrupt--district attorney is determined to get the death penalty, and the accused is unwilling--or unable--to talk, even to save his o
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