Blurb:
The
City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes
that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant, Dr.
Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful
physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of
the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child-custody dispute initiated by
Connie against her sister and begins to realize that there is much about the
siblings he has failed to comprehend. And when the court battle between the
Sykes sisters erupts into cold, calculating murder and a rapidly growing number
of victims, Alex knows he’s been snared in a toxic web of pathology.
Nothing
would please Alex more than to be free of the ugly spectacle known as Sykes v.
Sykes. But then the little girl at the center of the vicious dispute disappears,
and Alex knows he must work with longtime-friend Detective Milo Sturgis,
braving an obstacle course of Hollywood washouts, gangbangers, and self-serving
jurists in order to save an innocent life.
Review:
I
normally don’t review best-sellers like Killer,
because they don’t need a boost in sales from reviewers like me, but when you
pull a book off the Net Galley website, you’re required to review it. Jonathan
Kellerman’s Alex Delaware books are among the books I would recommend to new authors
who want to write series. I believe I first picked up a book somewhere in the
middle and then went back to the beginning—not because I felt I’d missed
anything, but because I liked it. I read every book in the series and then
waited for each book to come out until I got too busy with my own books,
editing jobs, my review site, and the Marketing for Romance Writers Newsletter
to read much for pleasure. I’m not sure how many Delaware books I’ve missed,
but when I picked up Killer, it didn’t
matter. Each book stands on its own as books in a series should.
What
can I say about a master storyteller who just gets better with each book he
writes? Mr. Kellerman drew me back into Dr. Delaware’s life on the first page
of Killer, and kept me on the edge of
my seat through the whole book. It was so nice to revisit Alex, Milo, Alex’s
girlfriend Robin, and their French bulldog, Blanche. And I can’t believe I’m
saying this two weeks in a row, but I didn’t know who did it until Mr.
Kellerman revealed it. I usually figure these things out at least half way
through, but he threw in enough red-herrings that I truly did not know who the Killer was.
Length:
353 Pages
Prices:
Print
(Hardcover): $28.00
Print
(Paperback Lg. Print): $28.00
Kindle:
$12.99
Audible
(Unabridged): $26.95
Thanks
for visiting. RIW
Nice review!
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