His books get better (Billy Straight - Jonathan Kellerman)

Member Name: rachellenz

Product:	Billy Straight - Jonathan Kellerman
Date:	14/02/01 (56 review reads)
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Advantages: A real page turner

Disadvantages: Similar to a lot of crime thrillers

I have been reading Kellermans books for a long time now, and have read most of them.
The majority of his books are written about the child psychologist Alex Delaware. I have found all of these enjoyable and easy reading. ie the type of book that within seconds of reading you are into the story.

However Kellerman has gone away from his normal characters and written about a new police detective in the book Billy Straight.
I actually found this book had a stronger story line than his others. In this one he writes about a serial murderer but the person who deals with solving the crime is a female police detective, Petra.

Part of the book is written from the view of a 12 year old child Billy Straight. I feel that this added to my enjoyment of the book as some of the scenes felt scarier to me, when looked at through the eyes of this child.

This book showed it was well researched by the amount of detail given into how the police systems work in America and the lines of jurisdiction.

I have found in is previous books that, Alex Delaware just comes across the answer to the murder without any real clues being put there for us to solve. In Billy Straight I did not feel this was the case and felt more involved reading the book.

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