The Murder Book - Jonathan Kellerman

Private Eyes - Johnathan Kellerman

my outgoings and also as a way of reminding myself of the reason why my collection boasts so much of their work. I have always enjoyed the writing of Jonathan Kellerman despite the recent very poor joint effort with his wife Faye which was very disappointing. In particular I have enjoyed those novels that feature the character Alex Delaware, a child psychologist who works alongside the LAPD as a consultant and often in the company of Milo Sturgis a homicide detective. The 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. In this novel Delaware is ...

Private Eyes - Johnathan Kellerman

Let me begin by taking you into the book without commiting plagarism, i'll start at the beginning and try not to give away too much. A THERAPISTS WORK IS NEVER OVER ******************************** This is the first sentence in the book, Alex Delaware is a psychologist who is contacted by one of his former patients Melissa Dickenson. Melissa was referred to him when she was seven years old after she had phoned a helpline in tears as she was scared of everything, when she turned nine she sent a note to Alex explaining that she was ready to handle things on her own after all she was nine years old. It is now nearly a decade later and Alex has a ...

Alex Delaware Series - Jonathan Kellerman in general

After writing five books about child psychologist Alex Delaware Kellerman's breakthrough in this country came in the wake of the success of Silence of The Lambs, and public enthusiasm for all things psychopathic. Kellerman is a better author than this would suggest, however, and his books are of a remarkably high and even quality, with only the odd lapse (The Web, to be specific). Starting in 1985 with When the Bough Breaks, nearly all of Kellerman's books are set in LA and deal with childhood trauma resulting in criminal activity, sometimes horrific. In Kellerman's books the past prefigures the future, often consuming it, and it is no surprise that he acknowledges his debt ...