California Street — Donna Levin

Guilt is San Francisco psychologist Joel Abramowitz's business--and it is his second feeling after lovely, very rich Margot, his best friend's wife confesses she loves him. His first feeling is unabashed lust. But the next morning the lady vanishes, and then an overweight, wildly jealous patient appears at Joel's office to confess she forced Margot's car off the road. Is it the client's fantasy...or is Margot dead? A twisted skein of love, murder, and compulsion soon leads Joel Abramowitz on a frantic womanhunt through
California's mad, mad world. And he certainly has his hands full, dealing with "issues" and outright lunacy--and fearing what may reside in the shadowlands of his own desperate heart...