Shortly after Viktor's arrival at Parkum, the mysterious and pushy Anna Glass walks into his life wanting therapy sessions with him. The action takes place in Berlin and Parkum, an island off Germany's coast in the North Sea, where Viktor has a cottage and to which he retreats to work on interview questions for Spiegel magazine that's due in a few days.

Isabell seems confident that Josey is alive she may blame Viktor for Josey's disappearance. He's quit seeing patients, drinks too much, and hopes for the day an investigator will show up and tell him his daughter is dead, giving him closure. Isabell seems to be throwing herself into her work whereas Viktor has slowly fallen apart. Viktor and his wife, Isabell, are coping with the disappearance in their own ways. She had been sick with an un-diagnosable illness and was going to see yet another specialist. Josey disappeared four years ago from a doctor's office where her father dropped her off. It's the story of famous psychotherapist Viktor Larenz's search for his missing daughter, Josephine or Josey, and his own process of grief and betrayal. After reading this book, I'll think twice about labeling other books as psychological thrillers. Therapy is an intense psychological thriller. I used to be a compulsive book buyer, but now I'm mainly a compulsive book-checker-outer at the library because 1) I'm in school and low on funds and 2) its free.

Sebastian Fitzek's Therapy was the lucky winner because I was able to request it through the Metropolitan Library System via my library's website with a simple click of my mouse. I was scrolling through the list of authors sorted by their country of origin looking for something recent to read by a German writer. I came across this book by way of Euro Crime, an information packed blog devoted to British and European crime fiction.

Die Therapie by Sebastian Fitzek