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Fiction Psychological

Mind Games

by (author) William Deverell

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2022
Category
Psychological, Suspense
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780771026799
    Publish Date
    Oct 2004
    List Price
    $10.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781770416451
    Publish Date
    Jun 2022
    List Price
    $26.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781773059464
    Publish Date
    Jun 2022
    List Price
    $13.99
  • Downloadable audio file

    ISBN
    9781778520679
    Publish Date
    Oct 2022
    List Price
    $29.99

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Arthur Ellis award–winning William Deverell’s 2003 bestseller

In Mind Games, William Deverell returns to the intriguing territory of the law and lawyers and of human psychology and motivation, and he does so in familiar Deverell sur­roundings: the streets, courtrooms, and waters of Vancouver.

Dr. Tim Dare is a forensic psychiatrist whose life is in a mess: his wife has just left him to find herself; his mother is being sued for libel by a small-town mayor over a mystery novel; he’s been made the monitor of a man just out of psychiatric hospital, a man he considers a psychopathic murderer; he’s being hauled before a disciplinary committee for “misplacing” a file; one of his patients is “transferring” feelings to him rather too romantically; and now someone’s threatening to kill him. He can’t even get into an elevator without falling apart. No wonder he thinks he needs to see a shrink himself. Under the guidance of fellow psychiatrist Dr. Allison Epstein, Dare gradually learns how to face the demons within — and those in the real world that are really out to get him.

 

About the author

Contributor Notes

 

After careers as a journalist, criminal lawyer, and political activist, William Deverell turned to fiction and on his first effort won the $50,000 Seal First Novel Award. Since then, he has earned multiple prizes for his 20 published novels, including the Dashiell Hammett Prize for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing in North America, two Crime Writers of Canada Awards (formerly the Arthur Ellis Award) for Best Canadian Novel, and two runners-up for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. He holds two honorary Doctor of Letters degrees and lives in Pender Island, British Columbia.