A Stitch Before Dying by Anne Canadeo

Author:Anne Canadeo [Canadeo, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths, C429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9781439191415
Google: 9DWIYwLODSkC
Amazon: 1439191395
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2010-12-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Lucy was tempted to join her friends when they called from the reception area of the spa. They were indulging in special treatments and even offered to share their coupons for freebies, compliments of Alice Archer. She had refused. “I’m sorry. I’m too tired,” she told Suzanne.

“Okay. Be like that. Party pooper,” Suzanne scolded her.

“Just make sure everything is locked up,” she heard Dana say. “Especially if you take a nap. The police just announced that everyone is free to go if they want to, but we still need to be careful,” she reminded Lucy.

Lucy was relieved to hear that the lockdown had been lifted. Even though her group was in for the duration, she didn’t like the feeling of being trapped. The whole situation was very stressful . . . and tiring.

She did plan on taking a nap. A long one. The night on the mountaintop had worn her out. She showered, put on clean clothes, and flopped on a big, lovely bed, where she quickly fell into a deep, dreamless sleep.

Afterward, even a stroll around the lake seemed too ambitious. She’d ended up on the porch with a cup of green tea, reading Dr. Max’s book—and trying not to check her phone for messages . . . or give in and call Matt.

Luckily, Max’s book—Confessions of a Lost Soul: One Man’s Journey to Reunite Mind, Body, and Spirit—drew her in from page one. The doctor had a strong voice and an interesting story to tell. The autobiography opened at the height of his success as a well-known and respected psychiatrist with a thriving practice, describing his carefree, affluent lifestyle. Then the tale quickly grew darker, turning to the tragedy that ended that cushy life and his enviable career, when a patient under his care at the practice he shared with Edward Archer committed suicide.

The young woman, who was not named, was being treated for depression with talk therapy and well-known antidepressants. She was not Dr. Max’s patient, but he and Dr. Archer consulted with each other about many of their patients. Max took an interest in her case and felt a strong bond with her. Something about her touched him in a deep place, he confessed. She seemed a symbol for youth, beauty, and unlimited promise.

The young woman’s death was a devastating blow to both Max and his partner. Archer eventually drank himself to death, Lucy already knew, and Max told how he lost the practice and his personal holdings in a lawsuit with the girl’s family. He was ruined and practically destitute. Even his wife of over twenty years, Joy Kimmel, left him, too.

Looking back, Max believed it was not just personal failing or Archer’s miscalculation of the patient’s state of mind, but a cruel lesson in the limits of conventional, traditional medicine and psychiatry, which he now deemed to be tragically limited and “as primitive as medieval medicine, at times.”

He pointed out that with all our advances in technology, even putting a man in outer

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