Simply just not my favorite Jonathon Kellerman book. Kept my attention early but seemed to become gruesome simply for the sake of being gruesome. Bordered more on the fringes of a horror novel than a mystery and consequently lost my interest. I love a clever mystery, but when books get their atte...
This is the first Kellerman novel I have read, and I expected it to be really good considering the number of books in this genre that he has published, but I was left unimpressed. The plot was mind-numbingly boring until halfway through, and then only got somewhat exciting at about 3/4 through. T...
I did not finish reading "Mystery." It is the first Jonathan Kellerman book that I have not completed, and I have read most of them.I found the book to be boring with no real substance; it is a pro-forma performance. Very template oriented writing. I don't know if this is an anomaly for Kellerman...
This was a book in the Alex Delaware/Milo Sturgis series, but not really. They were scarcely in it. Instead it focuses on two new characters, brothers we met in the last of Kellerman's books. One is a PI and one is a homicide detective, now under Milo. These guys are both more likeable than Alex ...
Ah, el hard-boiled fiction… Otro de los grandes subgéneros industriales de hoy en día. En el marco de un asesinato añádase al detective una falla personal, un cierto número de demonios personales y una vida aburrida y odiosa y sobretodo, desenmascárese el crimen con toda su brutal realidad y tene...
Short novellas disappoint -- we wanted Decker & Alex !!We were so excited to learn that two of our favorite authors -- Faye and Jonathan Kellerman (husband and wife as well) -- had teamed up to write "a novel" entitled Double Homicide. We were all set for a sparkling Alex Delaware (on one murder)...
The third book in the Alex Delaware series is called Over The Edge and was originally published in 1987. While I enjoyed the story overall, I had a hard time getting into this one. This was partly due to the setup of the book and the slow start to the narrative, and partly due to the fact that in...
Psychologist Alex Delaware takes on a new patient when a policeman friend refers him to a young woman who served on the jury of a serial murderer’s trial. Lucy Lowell has been having a recurring dream wherein she is four years old, in the woods, watching three men carry a young woman who appears...
Jonathan Kellerman began the Alex Delaware series in 1985 with the 29th book in the series scheduled for publication in early 2014. This review is being written in January 2014. I have a bookshelf of Alex Delaware books as I went on a used book buying binge after I first discovered Kellerman. I r...
Woo hoo! Outstanding! Fantastic! Marvelous! Phenomenal! Knocked it out of the park!I thought Alex bought it this time! (Ok, that was true hyperbole - I'm looking at ten more paperbacks to go in the series on my floor - ; D )Anyway. I loved loved loved loved loved this one! Very exciting, couldn't...
New shrink doc a lot like old one, but decent story awaits...Feeling that the Alex Delaware series has lost a great deal of zest in recent books, we snapped up this latest Kellerman on learning it featured a completely new leading man, psychologist Jeremy Carrier. This doc practices on staff at a...
Typically, once I have begun a series, I much prefer the author to produce within the canon. After all, publishing a book outside the series takes time away from the characters I’ve become entranced with. Nevertheless, I can hardly condemn a wrier to a life of tedious enslavement to their creatio...
This is my first Kellerman novel and perhaps my last. I can see how Kellerman can be successful. He has appealing characters, offers good psychological insights on their motivations, and is good at plotting. This book started out in an extremely promising manner. I loved the way Kellerman introdu...
I NEITHER HIDE, NOR FEED, MY REVIEWS. THEY MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.This is my second Kellerman novel. I' m really liking his work!I love the device of seeing criminal investigation through the eyes of a child psychologist, Alex Delaware. All the criminal forensics are there, but the crimes at times ...
This is the best novel Jonathan Kellerman has ever written. It is a Detective Petra Connor book, the first, I think, of a new series. Delaware, Kellerman's bread and butter character, is mentioned in the last chapter only, so, yes, they live in the same universe.Want to read a book that gives an...
I don't know why, but this reminded me somewhat of Miami Vice. Everyone is a player. Except for one young woman, a rape victim. Everyone else not playing is excusing the player's behavior, twisted as it is, because the players also do some good, as if it made it all balance out. As if. Reading t...
Two stories by two excellent writers. At first, I was expecting to find a separate novella from each, featuring their signature characters - but I was pleased to find that each introduced a new set of characters.The two novellas shared a couple of attributes that I like in my reading:a) The sett...
“The noblest of all studies,” said Plato, “is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.” But what do we do when, long before boy becomes man, life turns dark and thoroughly wrong? Psychiatrist and mystery writer Kellerman wrote this brief work for a general audience in response ...
I'm relatively new to Jonathan Kellerman, in fact this is only the second or third of his Alex Delaware novels that I have read. Looking through some of the reviews of this 16th instalment in the series, prior to reading it, this may well have been to my advantage. Unlike some of the other review...
Book five in my Kellerman Reread is also the fifth book in the Alex Delaware series. Time Bomb deals with what looks like a school sniping avant la lettre, but it is anything but. However, the more I read these books written in the Eighties the more I’m shocked by how little some of the issues ha...
Kellerman's Delaware mysteries always teeter towards soap opera and occasionally fall in. This is one that fell. Depending on you, the reader, that can be either good or bad. For me, the other elements either make the book good or bad. I like 'The Web'. Another element is that Kelleman's plots a...
I enjoyed this book as much as the first one in the series. Even though the first book explodes and hightails it all the way to the end; this second one is just as brilliant but it starts as a few waves lapping at your ankles to a furious storm and then a calm ocean night. The way Kellerman can g...
Downloaded from Audible.comNarrator: John RubinsteinPublisher: Random House Audio, 2003Length: 11 hours and 57 min.Publisher's Summary"I've got a weird one, so naturally I thought of you," says Milo Sturgis, summoning his friend Alex to the trendy gallery where a promising young artist has been b...
Phew! By the hair of my chinny-chin-chin I finished this in time for book group. Woo! And after hearing why E chose this book (because of her own personal experiences with a relative who suffers from Munchausen disorder, as well as the fact that she didn't realize it was in a series), I can even ...
A couple of times his driving suffered but who was going to give him a ticket? By the time he dropped me off he was sullen. Happy to distance myself from the case, I drove home. A shiny white Range Rover was parked behind Robin’s truck, tricked out with big wheels and chrome spinners, the windows...
No bird’s-eye maple paneling, just beige paint on the walls. Thin, beige carpeting blurred the room’s boundaries. Off-white leather couches and armchairs were loosely arranged. Koppel had displayed crystal eggs and Indian pottery. Franco Gull’s sole nod to decoration were cheaply framed photograp...
Not far from the site of her daughter’s suicide. Or the Buy-Rite mall, or the park where her granddaughter had been taken to be murdered. A short drive, also, to the Daneys’ house in Van Nuys. But for Barnett Malley’s escape to rural solitude, the case had tossed a narrow net. Milo got the number...
Bills, bills, junk, and then a surprise: the familiar flimsy blue-green paper of an Israeli aerogram, nearly impossible to open without damaging its contents. She lights the stovetop, fills a kettle, waits for the water to boil. Jacob, strapped in h...
These two terms are often erroneously used interchangeably by the popular press as well as by those who should know better, but other than beginning with psych- they have virtually nothing in common. In fact, in some sense they are polar opposites. Psychotics suffer from serious mental disorders ...
Edging closer. Crowding me. "Give my office a call, we'll send you a coupla years' worth."I said, "I can see why you wouldn't want me talking to anyone.""Can you?" Harder slap. "Well, there you go. And I know you'll show some class. Not showing class would make a lot of people very unhappy, and y...
“Susan Appel and Barbara Bruno… let’s go alphabetically.” Punching numbers so fast he hit the wrong button and had to try again. “Mrs. Appel? Lieutenant Sturgis… I’m… yes, I know it was traumatic, ma’am, so sorry it was your… no, there’ll be no need to do any further diggi...
But my life was a mess. I relaxed my standards. And stepped into a nightmare. Thursday morning I was the good doctor, focusing on my patients, determined not to let my own garbage get in the way of work. I kept my eye on the boy. He hadn't yet gotten to the part where he tore the heads off the do...
when Grace drove away from Wild Bill’s, leaving the two punks gaping. If her energy held up, she could make the trip in six or seven hours. If she started feeling less than optimal, she’d stop in Monterey. For the first fifty miles, she tried to empty her head by listening to music. Unsuccessful;...
The first assassin came from behind Steve, materializing in a puff of dust, a rifle aimed at Steve’s head. Steve wheeled and fired before the bastard’s trigger finger could budge. A red spot tattooed the assassin’s forehead. As he fell, he gave a look of dull consternation followed by the terror ...
Milo asked her where she was staying. “I came straight from the airport.” “Did you rent a car?” “I took the shuttle to Westwood, then a cab.” “I’ll get you a place. There’s a victim compensation fund, but it’ll mean more forms and take a while to get compensated.” “I don’t care about that.” Her h...
All three looked stunned. I nodded at Milo and he said, “Appreciate your patience, we’ll take it from here.” We accompanied Ballou and LaGuardia out of the house, stayed with him at the bronze Jaguar, and let her approach the white Infiniti. Marissa Corey had already raced far ahead of them and w...
T. Max | Day of the Dead D. T. Max DAY OF THE DEAD FROM The New Yorker MALCOLM LOWRY DIED in his cottage in the village of Ripe, in Sussex, late at night on June 26, 1957, or early the next morning. He was forty-seven years old. His wife, Margerie, found his body upstairs, on the floor of their b...
Jacob squeezed through a gap in the chain-link, carrying a package of Tesco brand toffee. In the hour since the rain had let up, the pools in the pitted asphalt had been colonized by insects. If he hadn’t known any better, he might’ve looked at the teeming life and thought...
He was twelve, with hair, didn’t have to take any of her shit, her breath and tits hanging out. She was too had-out to come after him, could barely keep her eyes open. He did what he wanted, probably had more freedom than any kid in the world. More than anyone. Except the cat. Usually it stayed u...
Several underlings and one private banker later, he managed to cadge the fact that a Palisades-based service called Happy Hands cleaned both Vander houses on an as-needed basis. “Who determines when it’s needed?” said Milo. “How would I know that?” ...
The closest match was a Day of the Dead offering to the ancestral spirit Gede that sometimes included bones. Milo looked up the date of the rite. “November first. Months off.” I said, “People improvise.” “Some local whack concocted his own private sacrifice?” “Making it up’s a lot easier and more...
Just enough dry heat had lingered to be soothing. The quiet was merciful. Robin had driven up an hour before. Feeling guilty about returning to Starkweather without informing her, I'd filled her in. "No need for confession. You're here in one piece." She'd looked tired, soaked in the tub while...