He Said, She Said: A Mystery

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For state prosecutor Bradlee Aames, psychosis is a fact of life, a waking nightmare from which modern medicine's soulless jargon and mind-numbing meds have offered little relief. Bradlee stays focused by winning trial after trial, even while she's self-medicating with booze, dope, and midnight surfing sessions at a classic LA point break. But when a thick fog of delusions engulfs her, she blows a case, and her reputation and competence are called into question. To rehabilitate her career, her boss gives her an easy assignment: Dr. Don, a popular TV shrink and former state medical board expert, now stands accused of sexually exploiting a vulnerable female patient, yet the broken woman won't testify. If Bradlee can settle the matter quietly, the board, avoiding further embarrassment, will be pleased. But Bradlee Aames doesn't do things the easy waynot when a predator like Dr. Don is primed to debase more helpless women. Illusive LA is the gritty, sun-blasted setting for He Said, She Said, a thrilling story of trust, betrayal, truth, and deception. Told from multiple perspectives, it offers the reader a front-row seat to a tense legal battle while exploring the many human consequences of power and corruption.

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Praise for John DeCures previous novel: [Reef Dance] mesmerizes with details of life in the trenchesin the courtroom and on the surfboard. It takes an insiders knowledge of both places to build the kind of characters that populate this novel. Its a winner. So is DeCure. Michael Connelly, author of the New York Times bestselling Harry Bosch series
Praise for John DeCures previous novel: [Reef Dance] mesmerizes with details of life in the trenchesin the courtroom and on the surfboard. It takes an insiders knowledge of both places to build the kind of characters that populate this novel. Its a winner. So is DeCure. Michael Connelly, author of the New York Times bestselling Harry Bosch series

Author Bio

John DeCure was a deputy trial counsel with the State Bar of California from 1993 to 1998. He is the author of Bluebird Rising and Reef Dance. He Said, She Said is his third book. He lives and surfs in Los Angeles, California, where he was born and raised.