The Secret of the Villa Mimosa: A Novel [Paperback]

Was it an accident...or an attempted murder?

Dr. Phyl Forster watched the TV news, horrified at the sight of the broken body in the ravine.  Then she raced to the hospital to see the victim.  Miraculously, the girl was alive, but without name or memory.  An irresistible challenge to Dr. Phyl, the psychiatrist who had buried her own past....

Detective Franco Mahoney was looking for a killer, without a whisper of a clue.  He needed the beautiful psychiatrist to unlock the victim's mind.  But he wasn't prepared for the passion Dr. Phyl inspired or the passion that ensued....

Elizabeth Adler's riveting novel of erotic obsession and revenge sweeps from San Francisco to Paris, from the Côte d'Azur to a remote Hawaiian island, tracing a tale of murder and madness with roots in a decadent past...."Entertaining...Well-plotted...Lust, greed and murder keep readers on their toes."
--Publishers Weekly

"Spellbinding...Adler is a true genius."
--Affaire de Coeur

"A fun read!"
--San Francisco ExaminerElizabeth Adleris the internationally acclaimed bestselling author of many novels, including Sooner or Later, Now or Never, The Secret of the Villa Mimosa,All or Nothing, andFortune Is a Woman.Homicide Detective Franco Mahoney of the San Francisco Police Department watched impassively as the men from the Fire Department Rescue Services clambered down Mitchell’s Ravine toward the girl’s body. Not that you could see much of her, just her foot in a red sandal and her arm sticking up through the underbrush that had stopped her fall but failed to save her life. Now she would be just another statistic on the unsolved homicide list. He had seen it all before, but now he had a job to do. He had to find her killer.
 
He glanced at his watch. It was 8:00 A.M. His shift was just finishingl“/