KEITH ABLOW, M.D., like his protagonist, is a forensic psychiatrist who has testified in some of the nation's most highly publicized trials. He has written four other Frank Clevenger novels,Psychopath, Projection, Compulsion, and most recently Murder Suicide. He lives in Massachusetts.

"Deftly, with driving prose, Ablow portrays the horror and bleakness of damaged lives."

--Jonathan Kellerman, bestselling author of The Clinic

"A disturbing, riveting read, DENIAL is written with insights only a forensic psychiatrist could have, with characters vividly human because they"re humanly flawed.Keith Ablow has written the prescription for terror. Readers should fill it only if they are caught up on their sleep."

--Michael Palmer, author of Critical Judgment

"[DENIAL] could only have been written by a psychiatrist or a psychiatric patient. Keith Ablow is a very fine writer.DENIAL is a stark and terrifying journey into the mind of the criminally insane."

--Nelson DeMille, author of Plum Island

"DENIAL places the reader on the cutting edge of psychiatric thrillers, and in the hands of an author whose expertise as a psychiatrist make this story as authentic as it is compelling. Here is,the major start of a career, the future of suspense fiction.

--Bestselling true crime writer Jack Olsen

"Wonderful inside detail... The psychological thriller has some professional help, and it works."

--Newsday

"DENIAL, which is a perfect title, is not easy to read, but it is harder to put down. The characters are compelling, for all their flaws, the story is tightly told, and the outcome is anything but predictable."

--The Cleveland Plain Dealer

"A first-rate debut thriller involving forensic psychology ... A distinctly unusual hero... A novel for the selfdestructive in all of us."

--Kirkus Reviews (starred)

"A convincing, seductively fascinating portrait of a man and a milieu obsessed with sensation and trapped in denial of that obsession."

--Publishers Weekly

"Every once in a while, a mystery comes along that, while compelling, exciting and satisfying, is more like great literature, than junk food to be gobbled down and immediately forgotten. DENIAL is such a read, a superb, even sublime, novel."

--John L. Schwartz, M.D., Psychiatric Times

"A powerful first novel by a forensic psychiatrist who plumbs the depths of misery and degradation even better than Patricia Cornwell and as good as Jonathan Kellerman?"

--The Register Herald (Beekley, WV)

"Ablow weaves an intriguing story... Only someone with this background could create such real characters in a compelling debut."

--Southbridge (MA) Evening News

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

PSYCHOPATH

MURDER SUICIDE