Butterfield Institute · Book 1
The Halo Effect
- Published
- 1 January 2004
- Pages
- 341
- ISBN-13
- 9780778320807
- Type
- novel

About this book
M.J. Rose launched the Butterfield Institute series in 2004 with The Halo Effect, in which Manhattan sex therapist Dr. Morgan Snow is drawn into a murder investigation after one of her patients, a young sex worker, is killed shortly after a session.
Its place in Butterfield Institute
The Halo Effect is book 1 in the Butterfield Institute series. It is followed by The Delilah Complex. See the full Butterfield Institute reading order.
Dr. Morgan Snow is a sex therapist at Manhattan's Butterfield Institute whose clients' most private confessions keep pulling her into criminal investigations she has no formal standing to run -- a premise M.J. Rose uses across three novels to fuse psychological thriller plotting with frank, unflinching engagement with sexuality and its darker edges. The Halo Effect (2004) opens the series when one of Morgan's patients, a young sex worker, is murdered shortly after a session -- pulling Morgan into a case the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780778320807