Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett's specialty is the psychological autopsy -- an investigation into a person's life to determine whether a death was natural, accidental, suicide, or homicide. When Jo is asked to do a psychological autopsy on a living person -- one whose memory is damaged -- all her skills are put to the test.Ian Kanan has anterograde amnesia, and can't form new memories. Jo finds herself racing to save a patient who can walk and talk and yet can't help Jo figure out just what happened to him. Suddenly a string of clues arises, relating to a freakish biological agent code-named "Slick", a missing woman, and a secret partnership gone horribly wrong. Jo realizes her patient's addled mind may hold the key to preventing something terrible from happening in her beloved San Francisco.
"An astonishing writer." -- Tess Gerritsen
"The story just keeps coming. She is up there with Michael Connelly and Lee Child." -- Stephen King.
Meg Gardiner is the author of the Evan Delaney novels, including the Edgar Award winning CHINA LAKE. Her first Jo Beckett novel, THE DIRTY SECRETS CLUB, won the RT Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Procedural Novel. Originally from Santa Barbara, California, she currently lives in London. 
