Monster - Jonathan Kellerman

I like the writing style of Jonathon Kellerman and in particular I enjoy his books that feature the child psychologist Dr Alex Delaware and the Los Angeles detective Milo Sturgis. The two were originally bought together as Delaware consults on cases for the Los Angeles police and the two have built up a friendship as well as a professional relatonship. This was helped by the fact that Delaware was someone who accepted the fact that Sturgis is gay while his fellow officers did not. At the start of this book the two men are investigating the murder of a doctor at the Starkweather Institute for the Criminally Insane. The killing is similar to a brutal ...

Monster is another of the Jonathan Kellerman books to feature the Los Angeles based Dr Alex Delaware and LA homicide detective Milo Sturgis. Delaware is a child psychologist who no longer takes on patients directly instead he consults on legal cases and also works as a part time consultant for the police on their criminal investigations. Not married he lives with his long term partner Robin who designs and makes guitars and other string instruments. The Central Characters Delaware is portrayed as a bit of a loner and in Sturgis he has a friend who is equally on the outside as he is an openly gay cop in a very homophobic workplace. As if to further ...

Ardis Peake had been a quiet but strange boy. One day he walked into the kitchen, where his mother sat preparing vegetables. He decapitated her and calmly walked up the stairs to the bedroom where the husband and wife of the household lay sleeping. He battered and cut them to death, then continued along the corridor to where their children lay. The 5 year old girl was later found with her eyes removed but of the baby boy there was no sign. The policeman followed the bloody sneaker tracks out of the house to the shack where Peake lay snoozing. There on the stove a pot sat bubbling. The baby had been found. Undoubtedly the work of a monster but could these ...