Over the Edge

Its place in Alex Delaware

Over the Edge is book 3 in the Alex Delaware series. It follows Blood Test. It is followed by Silent Partner. See the full Alex Delaware reading order.

Alex Delaware is a child psychologist in Los Angeles, semi-retired from private practice by burnout and a healthy trust fund, who keeps getting pulled back into consulting on cases -- almost always at the request of his closest friend, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis. Jonathan Kellerman, himself a clinical psychologist before he became a novelist, builds each book around the psychology of victims, witnesses and killers as much as the crime itself: cult dynamics, childhood trauma, family pathology and the…