Kellerman Jonathan. Devil's Waltz

Publisher: Ballantine Books.
Date: 2003-12-02.
Pages: 528.
The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy, theA A terrifying disease that causes parents to induceA A illness in their own children. Now, in his mostA A frightening case, Dr. Alex Delaware may have to proveA A that a child's own mother or father is making herA A sick.
Twenty-one-month-old Cassie JonesA A is bright, energetic, the picture of health. YetA A her parents rush her to the emergency room nightA A after night with medical symptoms no doctor canA A explain. Cassie's parents seem sympathetic andA A deeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model ofA A devotion. Yet when child psychologist AlexA A Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells himA A that one of them may be a monster.
ThenA A a physician at the hospital is brutally murdered.A A A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and hisA A friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis have only hoursA A to uncover the link between these shocking eventsA A and the fate of an innocent child.