Saving Max by Antoinette van Heugten
 Lawyer Danielle Parkman is at her wit’s end.  Her son, Max, is a whipsmart teen with high-functioning autism who has shut down, is using drugs and lashing out.  Danielle takes him to Maitland, a premier psychiatric hospital, where she receives a devastating diagnosis and then finds Max, bloodied and unconscious at the feet of a patient who has been brutally stabbed to death.  Danielle refuses to believe that Max committed the crime and sets out to find the real killer.
Lawyer Danielle Parkman is at her wit’s end.  Her son, Max, is a whipsmart teen with high-functioning autism who has shut down, is using drugs and lashing out.  Danielle takes him to Maitland, a premier psychiatric hospital, where she receives a devastating diagnosis and then finds Max, bloodied and unconscious at the feet of a patient who has been brutally stabbed to death.  Danielle refuses to believe that Max committed the crime and sets out to find the real killer.
Harlequin Enterprises/MIRA Books, $14.95, October 2010, ISBN#: 978-0-7783-2963-3
This podcast was recorded at BookExpo America 2010 in New York City.


