delaware, alex (fictitious character)

Once again, Delaware, an accomplished psychologist, teams with his friend Milo Sturgis, an LAPD detective, to probe a mystery, though this time there's considerable doubt as to the nature of the puzzle. Teenager Tanya Bigelow, whom Delaware treated as a child for obsessive-compulsive disorder, consults him because her aunt Patty, who raised her, conveyed a cryptic message just before she died, apparently confessing to a crime. Shortly after Delaware and Sturgis start investigating, one of Patty's former neighbors turns up dead, the first in a series of corpses that appear, possibly as a result of the duo's turning over old rocks.

Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex enlists the help of detective Milo Sturgis to uncover the disappearance of an emotionally crippled woman in the old-money section of Los Angeles.

Dr. Alex Delaware becomes involved in a case after a woman that had issued a death threat against him is later found dead and her child and sister go missing.

Los Angeles police detective Moses Reed teams up with his half-brother Aaron Fox, a high-end private detective, in an attempt to locate missing college student Caitlin Frostig, in a case that leads to several surprising discoveries and goes a long way toward soothing the often troubled relationship between the brothers.

LAPD detective Milo Sturgis calls on psychologist Alex Delaware to assist in a homicide investigation to catch a brutal serial killer.

A sniper shoots at children in a school yard and no one is hurt. The sniper is killed and an investigation to uncover his motives leads to a darker current of politics and hatred surrounding the school.

Psychologist Alex Delaware finds himself caught in one of the most menacing cases of his career when he begins an investigation of the killing of a slightly retarded fifteen-year-old girl, and uncovers a murderous conspiracy.