Good story, but it shouldn't include a street guide

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	• Warning Signs Stephen White Dell, 2003 - 512 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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Good story, but it shouldn't include a street guide

This is a good page-turner including mystery and psycholgy. But the writer choose to include too many "street guide" details on locations. Sometimes reading the book felt like reading driving directions from Mapquest! It's good do descibe the surroundings, but not to that level of detail.

They Just Keep Getting Better and Better

I started reading this series from book one, Priviledged Information, and each installment is better than the one before, which is no simple chore. Warning Signs is fast paced and doesn't disappoint. The author can take several seemingly unrelated stories and weave them together in a way that may not always answer all of the questions, but certainly leaves you wondering. The "bad guy" may do horrible things, but the story is told with the psychological insight that doesn't make the reader hate him.

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Ethical codes should be written in pencil.

"Warning Signs" written by Stephen White, is the tenth installment in the long running series featuring clinical psychologist, Alan Gregory.

Dr. Gregory has a new patient, a confused, anguished, irritated, and menopausal woman, who needs more help than even Dr. Gregory can originally detect. Under the protection of doctor-patient confidentiality, this woman reluctantly explains the details of her frightening dilemma. During her time with Dr. Gregory, she burdens him with information that has the ethical doctor contemplating breaking the rules of psychotherapy which he holds so dear. Information that gives him reasonable cause to discontinue treating her, however this knowledge also makes it impossible for him to walk away.

I'd say this is one of the better books in the series, however...With every addition to the series I become a little more irritated with Alan and his lack of a backbone when it comes to his relationship with his wife. In the last book, The Program, Alan was wary about giving his wife his honest opinion when they were out shopping. He has no problem lying to her to guard his sense of ethics or to protect a patients privacy, but when she ask for his honest opinion about an impending purchase of a baby crib, he gets as nervous as a Chihuahua. In this installment, Lauren (his wife) wants to go shopping, this time for baby shoes. It happens to be Alan's day off and he doesn't particularly want to shop, however he is afraid to tell her as much - what a namby-pamby - and is only silently gleeful when a phone call from his friend Sam gives him the perfect way out of the shopping excursion without actually having to tell his wife - "No". Stephen White has given Alan Gregory enough personality and real life human character flaws, why, why, why, does he feel the need to make him out to be such a wuss when it comes to his marital relationship. I can certainly appreciate that he is sensitive to her special needs, but I find his wussiness (is that a word?) ineffectual. Still, it was a good mystery, and one that I'd recommend.

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great summer read

This was my first Stephen White book and I really liked it. It was a great beach read. It kept my attention moved quickly.

A fast pace thriller....

I couldn't lay the book out of my hands until I finished if to the very end.
This is a typical White's book with the brilliant psychological insights and the fast pace rhythm of the plot.
Dr. Alan stand in front of an ethical dilemma - whether to break the client-patient contract or to ignore the "warning signs" and keep his patients secrets with him even though his wife could be in danger for her life...

I enjoyed it a lot and can't wait for the next White's one.

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Sometimes the warning signs come too late...

The brutal slaying of Boulder?s controversial D.A. strikes deep in the heart of everything clinical psychologist Alan Gregory holds dear: After all, Alan?s wife, Lauren, worked for the dead man.

When a new patient walks into Alan?s office?a terrified mother with an explosive secret?he finds himself edging even closer to the darkness. Soon her privileged exchanges convince Alan that a crime is about to be committed. And when he uncovers a shocking link to the D.A.?s slaying, Alan is suddenly locked in the ethical dilemma of his career, thrust into a desperate manhunt for a killer whose identity no one could have guessed.

As the minutes tick down, Warning Signs explodes into a gripping story of crime and punishment, tragedy and retribution?and of human beings caught in the shattering cross fire of forces beyond their control...forces sometimes within themselves.

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