Frank Clevenger

From the New York Times bestselling author of Inside the Mind of Scott Peterson

BETWEEN PLEASURE AND PAIN,

DANGER AND DESIRE, LIFE AND DEATH, THERE IS...

DENIAL

A USA TODAY Best Seller

Dr. Frank Clevenger is a forensic psychiatrist who hates authority, fears intimacy, uses sex as an anesthetic, is tortured by his professional mistakes and can't free himself from the shadows of a brutal, alcoholic father and an absent, unfeeling mother. But it is precisely this injured psyche that allows him to understand the deranged behavior of the mental and emotional outcasts who cross his professional path.

As Denial opens, all of Clevenger's understanding and expertise are put to the test: He has been asked to rubber-stamp the mental competency of a homeless schizophrenic man who has confessed to a particularly grisly murder. But as evidence of a shocking series of murders begins to mount, Clevenger will be forced to confront his own most terrifying and powerful demons.

"SPELLBINDING AND SHOCKING" -Nelson DeMille

Praise for Denial

"Keith Ablow is king of the psychological thriller. He writes with a pace so blistering the pages will all but singe your hands." -Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River and Small Mercies.

"Deftly, with driving prose, Ablow portrays the horror and bleakness of damaged lives. Dark and compelling." -Jonathan Kellerman, author of Open Season.