Inside, Macleah sees photos of Jennifer, the mother, but none of the daughter Jenny. Macleah visits the Eben estate and meets a housekeeper who tells her Eben is on vacation but invites her in. The attending physician during their birth was their own father, Douglas Eben (Ron Perlman). After flipping a page, Macleah sees the birth record for a female twin, Jennifer Lynn Eben, born with extremely malformed hands. She visits the old shuttered hospital and finds birth records for Jordan Brian Eben, given up for adoption at birth after the hemorrhaging death of his mother Jennifer Lynn. With help from a colleague, Macleah finds the identity of a Jennifer Lynn Eben, who has been deceased for some time. She is assaulted from behind and the truck drives away with her inside. She stumbles upon an unaccompanied ice cream truck and goes inside for a snack. At the same time, a young girl is seen running through the woods with her dog. Jennifer tells Macleah that the hands are given from Daddy so she can play. On Jordan's birthday, during a hypnosis game, Macleah gleans information from Jordan's alter-ego named Jennifer Lynn. The Houston police department track down a lead with a pedophilic ice cream man but he turns out to be a dead end. After watching a video from a missing girl's file, Macleah hears the song of the ice cream truck and figures out it's the song Jordan hums each time she goes to visit him. Despite Jordan's initial reluctance to communicate with her, Macleah earns his trust and discovers there is a psychic connection between Jordan and the killer.Īfter combing through Jordan's medical files and the databases, Macleah learns that the hands belong to young girls who have all gone missing over the years on Jordan's birthday, July 16 from nearby parks around the Houston area. Every year on his birthday he has seizures, his wrists start to bleed, and he carves hands into the walls - each with numbers stenciled on the palms. His patient is Jordan Thomas, who has been shuttered through foster homes and institutionalized since he was four years old. Captain Swaggert (Martin Sheen) sends Macleah to a nearby psychiatric hospital to talk to a doctor who called in a tip about one of his patients after hearing about the discovery. After examination the hands appear to be the hands of young girls from various ages, each with a number tattooed on their palms. Macleah immediately ruffles some feathers with her methodology and frankness but is determined to catch the murderer. They have four children, two of whom are also novelists.Following a gruesome discovery of a bag of severed hands in the sewer system, State Profiler Audrey Macleah (Ally Walker) is called in to help the Houston police department investigate. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, who is also a bestselling crime writer. The psychologist and novelist has been very vocal in speaking out against the "misguided" release of mentally ill people into the community without benefit of counseling, psychotherapy, as well as medication. He was a consultant and expert witness in the legal system which impacted the characters in his novels. His career in medicine continued all throughout his writing. Through many cases and observations, came his first novel.When the Bough Breaks, which became a bestseller and was adapted for a TV movie. He published a book for parents titled Helping the Fearful Child. His extensive research and hands on experience while working at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles prepared him for the knowledge needed to write his first published book. The first published book from Kellerman was a medical text book entitled.Psychological Aspects of Childhood Cancer. Kellerman is currently a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine. His research thesis was entitled.attribution of blame for childhood psychopathology. He received his PhD from USC in clinical psychology. Screenplays were readily available to him, but he chose not to get into that venue. An unpublished novel that he co-wrote won him a Samuel Goldwyn writing award. He paid for his education by various jobs as cartoonist, illustrator, journalist, and editor, as well as teaching guitar. He grew up there and received a BA in Psychology from UCLA. His journey began when his family moved to Los Angeles California. Kellerman was born in New York City to parents who were successful authors themselves. American author, Jonathan Kellerman, comes from a decisively different viewpoint when writing his novels, than most authors.
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