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Leslie Glass offers us the most complex and disturbing case yet for suspense fiction's unforgettable team of NYPD Detective April Woo and psychoanalyst Jason Frank.  Obsessive love and hate lead to deadly mischief in a mental institution, and the Chinese cop and the eminent psychiatrist must challenge the system itself to stop it.

People connected to the most prestigious psychiatric center in New York are dying--and killing--for love, and the caring profession is in serious trouble.  If former patient Raymond Cowles's death on Halloween is ruled a suicide, Dr. Clara Treadwell, Cowles's analyst of long ago and now the head of the psychiatric center, may well be liable for a whopping malpractice suit that would mark the end of her career. 

For Dr. Treadwell to be found innocent of contributing to Raymond's death, the Quality Assurance Committee she's carefully organized in the person of Jason Frank must find a way to clear her name.  But if Raymond Cowles's death is ruled a homicide, April Woo has to find out who killed Dr. Treadwell's former patient…and why. As the cops and the analyst struggle to uncover the truth, ghosts emerge from the tortured pasts of the victim and his doctors--all still tormented years later by various kinds of illicit love.

April Woo and partner Detective-Sergeant Mike Sanchez are forced to face their own conflicts about loving mothers, clashing cultures, their futures in the department, and their deepening attraction to each other.  Jason too must confront the cost of loving, and of his hard-won integrity.

Then Dr. Treadwell is injured in her office and a second unnatural death occurs in the very heart of the center.  The murder brings Jason and April up against one of the most dangerous killers they've ever encountered; a man tired of waiting for justice to prevail.

What People Are Saying

"An intense thriller" Glass provides several surprises, characters with a lively cast of inner demons and above all a world where nothing is as it seems." - Publishers Weekly

"Detective Woo is the next generation descended from McBain's 87th Precinct." - The Hartford Courant

"Compelling... Glass clearly knows her psychology...The corruption of power, the power of love, and the clash of cultures--all contribute to the reader's enjoyment." - Pen and Dagger

"As Glass works her magic with psychological drama, the reader sees insides the minds of characters and experiences the longings, the anguish, the rage and the fear that drive them toward a violent resolution.  Glass fans will not want to miss Loving Time."

"One of the Best Novels of 1996" - Mostly Murder

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