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

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	• Warning Signs Stephen White Delacorte Press, 2002 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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.

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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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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What happens when a psychologist enters the darkness of the criminal mind?
When a tormented killer takes revenge on an unsuspecting city?
When the warning signs come too late?

These are the provocative issues at the heart of Warning Signs, Stephen White?s explosive new novel of psychological suspense. White?s crackling novels have earned widespread acclaim as ?superior psychological thrillers? (Chicago Tribune) that are ?taut, breathless, and mesmerizing? (The Denver Post) and ?sinister and scary? (The New York Times Book Review). Now the New York Times bestselling author returns with a story that catapults clinical psychologist Alan Gregory into the blistering heat of a crime wave that is sweeping the city?and locks him in the ethical dilemma of his career.

Warning Signs

The grisly slaying shatters the quiet of a residential neighborhood in the foothills of the Rockies. The battered body of Boulder County District Attorney Royal Peterson lies amid shards of broken pottery while his wife sleeps upstairs. Within hours, a homicide detective is the prime suspect in the brutal death that will send shock waves through the city?and reverberate in the professional and personal life of Alan Gregory.

Alan knew Roy Peterson. Lauren, his wife, a prosecutor in the DA?s office, worked under Peterson for years. And while Lauren contemplates taking on the defense of the accused cop, Alan meets with a new patient. Almost from the moment Naomi Bigg starts talking, warning bells go off in Alan?s mind. A terrified mother with an explosive secret, Naomi tests the limits of doctor-patient confidentiality when her privileged exchanges convince Alan that a crime is about to be committed. But when he uncovers a shocking link to the Peterson slaying, Alan finds himself riding the slippery slope between professional judgment and personal responsibility as he struggles to protect his patient while probing the mind of a deeply troubled teenager.

As violence erupts throughout the city?and a pattern of vengeance becomes chillingly clear?Alan is plunged into a desperate manhunt for a killer whose trail of rage winds all the way up to the Colorado Supreme Court. As the minutes tick down in a brilliantly conceived vendetta that targets the guilty and the innocent alike, Warning Signs races to a harrowing climax in which the lives of hundreds hang in the balance. A brilliant exploration of the fears and passions that war within each of us, Warning Signs is vintage White: taut, penetrating?utterly terrifying.

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