The psychiatrist's couch holds many secrets. Can it also hold the key to a series of brutal murders?

John Hanson, murdered in the street in a gruesome but apparently arbitrary attack.

Carol Roberts, brutally tortured and left to die in agony.

A master storyteller, Sidney Sheldon is the author of eighteen novels (which have sold over 300 million copies), over 200 television scripts, twenty-five major motion pictures and six Broadway plays, ranking him as one of the world's most prolific writers. His first book, The Naked Face, was acclaimed by the New York Times as 'the best first mystery novel of the year' and subsequently each of his highly popular books has hit No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list.