Stephen White is the author of the New York Times bestselling Alan Gregory novels. In his books, he draws upon over fifteen years of clinical practice as a psychologist to create intriguing plots and complex, believable characters.
Born on Long Island, White grew up in New York, New Jersey, and Southern California and attended the University of California campuses at Irvine (where he lasted three weeks as a creative writing major) and Los Angeles before graduating from Berkeley in 1972. Along the way he learned to fly small planes, worked as a tour guide at Universal Studios in Los Angeles, cooked and waited tables at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, and tended bar at the Red Lion Inn in Boulder. Trained as a clinical psychologist, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 1979 and became known as an authority on the psychological effects of marital disruption, especially on men. White's research has appeared in Psychological Bulletin and other professional journals and books. After receiving his doctorate, White not only worked in private practice but also at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, and later as a staff psychologist at The Children's Hospital in Denver, where he focused his attention on pediatric cancer patients. During those years he became acquainted with a colleague in Los Angeles, another pediatric psychologist named Jonathan Kellerman. At the time, Kellerman and White were two of only about a dozen psychologists in the country working in pediatric oncology.
these books remind me of a simpler time when I lived on the front range of Colorado and revisit them from time to time. For me. it's like that old comfortable sweatshirt you pull out from the back of the closet. I've read every book in the series, I own the print and audio versions of every book in the series (and even repurchased when they changed in audible) and still recommend them to folks to this day. I cried when the series ended. I don't know why I'm rambling on a book review that is not really a book review but in case this review crosses your path and you have any ties to Colorado, especially Boulder or the Front Range, check out this series. I recommend giving all of them a chance.
A predictable ending....a questionable plot of a therapist being that involved in murders, leaving a physically challenged wife and infant daughter to pursue criminals.