Killer: An Alex Delaware Novel
By Jonathan Kellerman
Publisher: Ballantine
Books
Published: February 11, 2014
ASIN: B00EMX9QQA
Amazon Synopsis:
After
thirty-five riveting, internationally acclaimed novels of psychological
suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman
returns with his most stunning thriller to date. Killeris a mesmerizing L.A. noir portrayal of the
darkest impulses of human nature carried to shocking extremes.
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
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
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.
Killer is Kellerman—and Delaware—at their finest.
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My Thoughts:
Alex
Delaware is a psychologist that is called on as a consultant to assist with
police and court cases. The case he has been asked to assist with this time is
a simple one, an open and shut case: two sisters, fighting over custody of a
child. The child appears to be achieving all the normal milestones and forming
the normal attachments with her mother, Ree Sykes, a woman of little means. The
aunt, Connie Sykes, is suing for custody claims the mother is incompetent and a
danger to the child is a woman with great financial means. Connie is very
unhappy at losing the custody dispute so quickly.
In
Alex’s life however, nothing is ever as simple as it seems. Shortly thereafter,
Alex once again finds himself working with Detective Milo Sturgis (who he’s
partnered with in many other Kellerman novels) when Connie Sykes turns up dead
and Ree and her baby have disappeared.
Kellerman
is a master at taking a story and twisting it in another direction, totally
getting you to believe that and then turning it around again and heading
somewhere else. After several different twists and turns, the conclusion ends
up being something totally different than what you were expecting.
Alex
Delaware experiences self-doubt in this volume, which is unusual for him and he
turns to his ever-supportive Robin for reassurance. She’s there as always,
working away in her woodshop. Does she do anything else? And Milo, as ever,
raids the refrigerator every time he comes to the house.
I
didn’t find Killer quite as engaging
as some of Mr. Kellermans other works. It was a good book, it was just lacking
that special something. I gave this novel 3 stars out of 5.
Thank
you to the publisher who provided me a copy via NetGalley a copy of the book in
exchange for a fair and honest review. A positive opinion was not required. All
thoughts are my own.
About the Author:
Jonathan Kellerman was born in New York City in
1949 and grew up in Los Angeles. He helped work his way through UCLA as an
editorial cartoonist, columnist, editor and freelance musician. As a senior, at
the age of 22, he won a Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for fiction.
Like his fictional protagonist, Alex Delaware, Jonathan received at Ph.D. in psychology at the age of 24, with a specialty in the treatment of children. He served internships in clinical psychology and pediatric psychology at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles and was a post-doctoral HEW Fellow in Psychology and Human Development at CHLA.
Like his fictional protagonist, Alex Delaware, Jonathan received at Ph.D. in psychology at the age of 24, with a specialty in the treatment of children. He served internships in clinical psychology and pediatric psychology at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles and was a post-doctoral HEW Fellow in Psychology and Human Development at CHLA.
In 1985, Jonathan's first novel, WHEN THE BOUGH
BREAKS, was published to enormous critical and commercial success and became a
New York Times bestseller. BOUGH was also produced as a t.v. movie and won the
Edgar Allan Poe and Anthony Boucher Awards for Best First Novel. Since then,
Jonathan has published a best-selling crime novel every year, and occasionally,
two a year. In addition, he has written and illustrated two books for children
and a nonfiction volume on childhood violence, SAVAGE SPAWN (1999.) Though no
longer active as a psychotherapist, he is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
and Psychology at University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.
Jonathan is married to bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman and live in California and New Mexico. Their four children include the novelist Jesse Kellerman.
Jonathan is married to bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman and live in California and New Mexico. Their four children include the novelist Jesse Kellerman.
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