The Courage to Kill - 9780975576113

A killer on the loose. A father murdered. A girl molested ... As folks from all walks of life—priests by the dozens, Scout leaders, coaches, teachers—are finally outed and paying for long ago crimes against children, hidden sexual abuses still lurk in the privacy of homes. What of these young victims? The Courage to Kill tells the story of one [such victim]. Now an adult Janice Parrish confronts her father at his beachfront home the night he is shot to death, but she does not remember it—even as she sits in a jail cell charged with Murder One. Veteran crime reporter Ray Myers, alias “Magic Myers,” covers the story and soon after unearths the sordid evidence that could prove Janice had been sexually molested. Suddenly, a run-of-the-mill killing becomes a media event. Myers finds himself entangled in a bizarre web of mystery and multiple murder that threatens not only his life but the lives of both his and Janice's families. In a race against time, Myers must find and stop the psychopath who's butchering people in a grisly pursuit to avenge the raging of her own twisted mind. A psychological mystery, The Courage to Kill is a superb portrayal of the fallacies of the “pop psych” treatment for repressed memory, a method causing the most reviled and revered controversy to impact the mental health profession since Freud.