Twisted - Jonathan Kellerman

Petra Connor, a Detective Sergeant in a US city, isn’t too impressed when she gets landed with genius Isaac Gomez, an intern working for the police department while doing a PhD for fun. She has a slew of cases to work on, including a drive-by shooting that killed four young people, one of whom can’t be identified. Isaac’s idea that there is a connection between murders of very different people all murdered on or around midnight on June 28 for several years in a row is initially pooh-poohed. But then Petra starts to get interested. The MO is the same in nearly every case. Knowing that her captain will not allow her any time or manpower to work on the case, she keeps it to ...

I am a fan of Jonathan Kellerman’s psychological thrillers, particularly if they centre around my favourite recurring characters of Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis. ‘Twisted’ features neither and whilst I don’t always enjoy the author’s departure from this ‘odd couple’, this enthralling page-turner was an exception. TWISTED is the second novel to feature Petra Connor (the first was ‘Billy Straight’). As I haven’t read that novel, I can’t say how it compares. THE TALE JK HAS TO TELL: Petra, is a 30-year-old detective with the LAPD, based in Hollywood’s Homicide Division. Around midnight on 28th June 2002, a crowd of teenagers are leaving ...

Six years after 'Billy Straight' and a year after her reappearance in the Alex Delaware thriller 'A Cold Heart' Jonathan Kellerman has released his second Petra Connor novel. I am a big fan of Kellerman's psychological thrillers which feature his main recurring characters psychologist Alex Delaware and cop Milo Sturgis I have also enjoyed his departures from these two characters, 'The Butcher's Theatre', 'Conspiracy Club' and the aforementioned 'Billy Straight' and as Delaware and Sturgis hurtle towards senior citizen status it may be the case that Delaware needs new characters. Petra Connor may well be the character that Kellerman is looking to, to fill this ...