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SECRETS FROM THE COUCH
by Sandra Levy Ceren
Southern Charm Press, November 2002
244 pages
$19.95
ISBN: 0971483221


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First introduced in PRESCRIPTION FOR TERROR, Dr. Cory Cohen is a psychiatrist with her own private practice in San Diego. She is very dedicated at her job and always goes the extra mile in trying to help her patients. In this latest book of the series, a prosecutor running for public office goes to Cory for help. Someone is privy to Morgan Heller's secret fantasy when she gets a call in the middle of the night. Morgan trusts that Dr. Cohen did not reveal any confidence, but someone is threatening her patients. When Morgan disappears without a trace, Cory will put on her amateur sleuth hat and get to the bottom of it. She enlists the aid of a private investigator to help her and together they will try to find out who is endangering the lives of her patients. What she will discover is a full-fledged conspiracy that will blow her mind away.

SECRETS FROM THE COUCH is a more ambitious novel than its predecessor. The author carefully plots several story lines than will enhance the book. She also develops further the character of Cory Cohen by introducing us to her children as well as a new love interest. Sandra Levy Ceren spends the time to show Cory's relationship with her children as well as the jitters of going out on a first date. The problems with managed healthcare, first introduced in Prescription to Terror, is brought to light again. Some of the characters from the previous book make an appearance and new ones are introduced, like private investigator Ben Fortuna. He will play a role in the story that may continue in the next book.

There is an anger management group involved in the novel's story line as well as an event in a women's shelter. There are a lot of colorful characters sprinkled in the story as well as some red herrings to keep the readers interest. There are Morgan's challengers in her public office race as well as a personal assistant named Sara Jaspers, who appears to know more than she is revealing to Dr. Cohen. In the end everything will come out together, the good guys win and the bad guys will be punished. SECRETS FROM THE COUCH is a better novel than her first book and hopefully as each one moves along, the series will keep getting better and better.

Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, February 2003

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