A Desperate Silence (Dr. Sylvia Strange Book 3)

"This must-have crime novel ... glittering, sharp-edged, gut-wrenching." - BOOKLIST starred review. Forensic psychologist, Dr. Sylvia Strange, probes the minds of some of the most dangerous felons in New Mexico's prisons. Now she faces her biggest challenge yet - to gain the trust of a young girl so terrified she cannot speak of the evil that pursues her or of the losses she has suffered.. With help from her lover, criminal investigator Matt England, Sylvia seeks clues to the girl's identity and her past. What has this child witnessed and what losses has she suffered? Just as Sylvia begins to win the child's trust, and even her love, she knows that time is running out for both of them.. The tattered trail of clues leads Sylvia through the mythic beauty of the desert Southwest, across the border to a powerful Mexican drug cartel and into the depths of New Mexico Penitentiary's death row. But even as Sylvia nears the truth, a demon draws ever closer - a demon who inhabits a young girl's psyche, but who kills in the flesh.