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Title: The Murder Book by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345452534 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71
Rating: 4
Summary: Make room for Milo
Comment: Alex Delaware, psychologist and consultant to the LAPD, has just taken his longtime girlfriend, Robin, to Paris to try to repair past ills. Instead of falling back in love with him, she's gone off on an extended music tour. He's alone in Los Angeles when the official blue album shows up at his door, filled with hideous and seemingly unrelated crime scene shots and titled "The Murder Book." He promptly calls his friend Milo Sturgis, an LAPD detective. Turns out one of the victims in the book, a badly mutilated teenage girl, was Milo's first unsolved homicide -- a homicide he might have closed if he hadn't been mysteriously shut down from within his own department. The two men's determination to discover who sent the book quickly grows into a need to resolve once and for all an atrocity that has been closely guarded by the rich and powerful for over twenty years.
If half of THE MURDER BOOK wasn't written from Milo's third-person perspective, it would have bombed badly. As it is, this novel just barely scrapes along on four stars. Yes, THE MURDER BOOK reads like vintage Kellerman, but that's not neccessarily a good thing. How many times can Alex search for information by web or phone? How many times can he take witnesses out to lunch in places painfully well described? How many times can he uncover a vast conspiracy that involves a confusing number of characters and is never quite plausible? How many times can he nearly get killed in the process? True, supposedly now we have some tension between Robin and Alex, but Robin wasn't solid to begin with and I can't say I missed her. What I did miss was any attempt on Alex's part to truly mend the relationship. But then, he's a series detective, what did I expect?
In this, the 16th installment in the series, Alex's thought patterns put me to sleep and only Kellerman's overuse of the phrase-not-sentence technique jarred me back awake. Except in Milo's chapters. Those were great. He's mysterious, persistent, a tad grouchy, big hearted -- I was very happy in his company. I almost wished the whole book had been his.
THE MURDER BOOK in short? Alex, move over. Milo's here.
Anna Klein
Rating: 5
Summary: Another Great Alex Delaware Novel
Comment: Jonathan Kellerman has written another terrific tale of suspense involving LA psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide detective Milo Sturgis. Anyone that has read the other books in this series will enjoy this book.
The book begins with Alex receiving a mysterious package through the mail. The package contains a book full of crime scene photographs. Alex calls Milo to tell him what he has received. Milo looks through the book and discovers that all of the photos are from solved homicides except for one- a teenage girl who's murder he had investigated twenty years earlier, during his first year as a detective. Milo and Alex go to work trying to figure out why someone has decided to stir up the past by bringing up a crime that hasn't been on anyone's mind in years. What they find leads them into a twisting adventure full of suspense as they try to solve the case.
This book is a little different from past Alex Delaware novels by Jonathan Kellerman in that we are also given some insight into Milo's thoughts. Some of the chapters are written from Milo's point of view, which is a little different than usual. Kellerman's descriptions are extremely detailed and the suspense is nonstop throughout this book. This one's definitely a winner.
Rating: 3
Summary: The Murder Book
Comment: There are two reasons that I always enjoy the Alex Delaware books - Milo and Spike. This book definitely gives the reader plenty of Milo but Spike is sorely missing. The book, as all of Kellermans stories, kept me reading well into the night but by the time I was finished my head was spinning with trying to keep all the characters straight in my mind. I also found the ending to be rather abrupt and disappointing. Definitely not one of my favorite Alex Delaware books.
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