Killer/Johnathan Kellerman/359 pgs/Mystery

Once I again I found myself reading a book from a series.  This was an Alex Delaware novel.  Alex Delaware, a psychologist and police consultant, is given a case child custody case involving two sisters.  Cherie and Connie Sykes, mother and aunt respectively, are the litigants.  Connie, a very wealthy doctor, is trying to win custody of her young niece.  Her sister, Cherie, a struggling, but good mother, is fighting hard to keep her beautiful baby girl out of her sister’s hands.

Connie feels that since she has the means and once cared for the child for an extended period of time, that the child would be better off with her and away from Cherie.  Unfortunately for Connie, the courts decide otherwise.  Everything looks good until Connie is found murdered and Cherie and the baby have disappeared.  Alex has every faith that Cherie had nothing do with her sister’s murder.  He goes to great lengths to prove Cherie’s innocence.  I will read another book in this series.