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Title: Flesh and Blood by John Rubinstein, Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-375-41942-X Publisher: Bantam Books-Audio Pub. Date: 20 November, 2001 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 9 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.41 (75 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Kellerman recovers some of his old form
Comment: Jonathan Kellerman is a very popular mystery author, but to my mind the last several books he's done with Alex Delaware haven't been that good. Alright, but nothing spectacular. In this, his latest book, the author redirects him to a simpler plot, keeping the action believable and the clues more convoluted, less confusing. The result, I think, is a better book.
Delaware is called by a woman whose daughter he tried to treat a decade ago, when she was a teenager. She'd been bright, but uninterested in the therapy, and so when the child's father cancelled the treatment, he'd only half-heartedly argued. Several years later, Delaware saw the girl again (now over 21) working as a stripper at a bachelor party, and she then visited his office once. Now the mother calls, worried because her daughter has dissappeared, and wanting Alex to try and see if he can find her. He agrees, and finds that another young woman vanished about a year earlier under similar circumstances, which piques his interest. Things kind of logically follow from there.
This is a very good book, not Kellerman's best, but still very good, and I would recommend it.
Rating: 4
Summary: His Best Since "Self-Defense"....
Comment: The Alex Delaware of old is back in Kellerman's new novel. The last four in the series have been very disappointing to many of his long time fans, and Kellerman goes back to basics with this tale of a disappearance/murder that personally affects the good doc, since it happened to a former patient that he was never able to reach.
In the novel, the old obsessive compulsive Alex Delaware surfaces again. He takes the crime personally, and continues to follow up some blind alleys, driving both Milo and Robin crazy with his inability to let it go. His instincts are basically good, however, and you second guess the multitude of possible outcomes all the way through the book's end.
It feels as though Kellerman has decided to ground the doctor in the type of cases and well-intentioned investigations he crafted for Delaware in the early books of the series. It is good to have the real Alex back, and to have Kellerman fully flesh out a story, unlike the botched and tedious plots of "Monster" and "The Web".
With this book, Kellerman wins back a fan!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Chilling Psychological Thriller
Comment: Dr. Delaware is contacted by the mother of Lauren Teague, a girl, he had seen years earlier for a couple sessions as a teenager. Lauren has disappeared and her mother is concerned. Alex remembers the girl well. Not only did see her as a teenager, he saw her years later at a bachelor party where she was a stripper. Both found themselves a little shamefaced. Later she'd gone by his office and told him that she was now studying psychology herself and was paying her way through school by stripping. Conversation turned to her family and after a heated discussion, she stormed out of his office.
Alex doesn't find Lauren for her mother, the police do as she turns up dead, the victim of a gangland-style killing. How did Lauren's body end up in a dumpster, apparently murdered execution style? As Alex and Milo begin to investigate, they find themselves led into the underworld of the sex industry, where nothing is what it seems. It seems like Lauren's death is tied with the brutal deaths of some of her former friends, work associates. To say nothing of the mysterious disappearance of her ex-roommate.
Once again Jonathon Kellerman has written a chilling psychological thriller with a story that winds through the world of prostitution, psychological experimentation and big money. He is one of the best storytellers around today. He puts believable dialogue into the mouths of believable characters, he delivers non-stop suspense and usually, as with "Flesh and Blood", he gives you more twists and turns than a curvy mountain road. You won't be able to put this one down.
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Title: The Murder Book by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345413903 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Dr. Death by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345413881 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Monster : A Novel by JONATHAN KELLERMAN ISBN: 0345413873 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Survival of the Fittest by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345458842 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Cold Heart: An Alex Delaware Novel by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345452550 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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