Every Fifteen Minutes by Lisa Scottoline FIC Sco

From the very beginning the reader knows that there is a sociopath at work.  The question of course is the identity of this sick person. There are a couple of good suspects in the story.  Who better to spot a sociopath than a psychiatrist?  Enter Dr. Eric Parrish a very successful one who is the head of the Psychiatric unit at a hospital  Things are going very well at the hospital.  He also has private patients whom he treats at his home.  But not everything is going well for Parrish.  He is separated from his wife, Alice, and she does not make things easy for Eric who wants to spend as much time as possible with his daughter, Hannah, who is 7. But for the most part things are going well.  And then it all starts to fall apart.

At work, where he is well-liked and respected, he is suddenly accused of sexual misconduct by a young intern.  One night at the hospital he is asked to meet with Max who is at the hospital with his grandmother who is terminal.  He is having a very hard time.  Besides dealing with the expected outcome for his grandmother, Max also suffers from OCD, has rituals that he must perform every 15 minutes and is having violent thoughts about a girl that he is working with at a tutoring center.  Eric takes him on as a private patient.  He is afraid that Max might hurt himself.  Instead the object of Max's obsession is murdered.  And Eric becomes a 'person of interest' in the investigation.

This book kept my interest from beginning to end!

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