Saving Max
by Antoinette van Heugten | Women's Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0778329631 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0778329631 Global Overview for this book
Registered by crossingguardma of Calgary, Alberta Canada on 7/6/2015
This book is in a Controlled Release!
4 journalers for this copy...
From amazon: Max Parkman—autistic and whip-smart, emotionally fragile and aggressive—is perfect in his mother's eyes. Until he's accused of murder.
Attorney Danielle Parkman can't deny her son's behavior has been getting worse—drugs and violent outbursts have become a frightening routine. But the diagnosis she receives from a top-notch adolescent psychiatric facility that Max is deeply disturbed—and dangerous—is too devastating to accept.
Until she finds Max, weapon in hand, at the bedside of a fellow patient who has been brutally stabbed to death.
Trapped in a maelstrom of doubt and fear and barred from contacting Max, Danielle's mothering instincts snap sharply into focus. The justice system is bearing down on them, so she must use her years of legal experience to find out the truth, no matter what that might be. But has she, too, lost touch with reality? Is her son truly a killer?
Attorney Danielle Parkman can't deny her son's behavior has been getting worse—drugs and violent outbursts have become a frightening routine. But the diagnosis she receives from a top-notch adolescent psychiatric facility that Max is deeply disturbed—and dangerous—is too devastating to accept.
Until she finds Max, weapon in hand, at the bedside of a fellow patient who has been brutally stabbed to death.
Trapped in a maelstrom of doubt and fear and barred from contacting Max, Danielle's mothering instincts snap sharply into focus. The justice system is bearing down on them, so she must use her years of legal experience to find out the truth, no matter what that might be. But has she, too, lost touch with reality? Is her son truly a killer?
Great book! A story of a mothers love and belief in her child...or is that mistaken belief?
At times I cringed, knowing that what Danielle was doing would get her in mega trouble. Loved all the characters. Well done for a fist novel!
At times I cringed, knowing that what Danielle was doing would get her in mega trouble. Loved all the characters. Well done for a fist novel!
I am taking this book to our monthly bookcrossers meet up at Cravings - the second Saturday of every month- to pass on to the next reader.
Picked this up at the August 2015 meeting at Cravings.
Taking to the May meetup at Cravings.
This is a story about about a mother and her son, Max who high-functioning autism. It is the story of the love a mother has for a child facing overwhelming evidence that he is both seriously mentally ill and a murderer. The book tries to explain what it is like to raise an autistic child. There are a lot of twists in this book which become a thriller. I couldn't put it down.
This one was given to me along with a bunch of other books to get back in circulation.
Adding this one into Book Box 2 that is going around the Calgary group. Hopefully it will find a new reader.