A Cold Heart
Alex Delaware, by his friendship with Milo, the homicide detective, is drawn into exploring and finding a serial murderer who is killing creative artists who are about to make a comeback. A sub-plot is Alex's breakup with Robin and his beginnings of a relationship with Allison, another psychiatrist we met in an earlier book.
I actually found this book more interesting than the last few Kellerman "Alex Delaware" series. Breaking up with the ever prese... Bad Love
When psychologist Alex Delaware receives a strange tape recording in the mail, he's reminded of a murder that took place in a health clinic. A young man kills his therapist, the one woman who went out of her way to help him. "Bad love" he'd once heard this man chant. "Bad love" the words quoted in a child-like voice, repeated throughout the recording. Alex calls his pal, Detective Milo Sturgis, and soon they're hunting a dangerous killer who is ... Billy Straight
Billy Straight has run away from his mother and her abusive boyfriend. He quickly learns how to live on the streets and stay alive. Unwittingly, he also becomes the only witness to a murder. Billy keeps his mouth shut but L.A.P.D. Detective Petra Connor learns he was a witness.
In time, a reward is placed on Billy's head so the cops can get an identification of the murderer they seek. The killer also sees the reward poster and learns he wasn't as ... Dr. Death
There's no shortage of suspects when Eldon Mate, a somewhat Jack Kevorkian-like euthanasist, is brutally murdered. Not only are there the millions who considered his actions immoral but also his estranged son and nowhere-to-be-found attorney.
Thankfully, Kellerman regulars Dr. Alex Delaware and Det. Milo Sturgis are on the case. Delaware, however, is faced with a conflict of interest: one of his patients is the daughter of Mate's final "traveler." As th...
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Flesh and Blood
This girl named Lauren visited a shrink when she a little girl. He tried to help her but couldn't. Some years later, he sees again at a bachelor party. He sees that she is a prositute and tries to talk to her. The next day, she is found dead. Now, Alex Delawar and his cop friend Milo must team together to find out what happened.... Killer
Psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware tries to find a missing girl stuck in the middle of a complex child custody case. As a psychologist who often tackles child custody cases, Dr. Alex Delaware is acustomed to unusual custody battles. But few have been as odd as the one involving baby Rambla. Constance Sykes, a successful and very type "A" doctor, is suing her sister Connie for custody of Connie baby girl. Constance claims Connie abandone... Monster
Absolutely exhausting! A mind tangling novel that places you smack dab in the center of an insane asylum...you think you're lost and half crazed, yourself! Soon, however, things start to make sense, but not much. You realize there's a killer in the midst and he's about as sadistic and heartless as Jack the ripper. He takes his quests to a more modern level, using video recordings. Dr. Delaware is again paired with detective pal, Milo Sturgis. It's ... Over The Edge
Over the Edge is a psychological thriller that revolves around psychologist Alex Delaware and a former client of his. This teen calls Alex in the middle of the night and, with a mixture of insane garbled prose, begs for help.
Already feeling guilty over a previous failure to help this particular child, Alex races out to the mental institution where the boy has called from, only to find that he has escaped!
The scenerio gets worse when... Private Eyes
A teen goes to her old child psychologist for help with her hermit mother. However, mom goes missing after "driving" herself out of the home that she never lft for years. What motivated her? The psychologist, Delaware, is going to find out. Who would want her...and did they want her dead, or all to themselves? Her husband is a mess, as is the daughter. She was pelted with acid to the face, years before and now they wonder if it was again the same p... Rage
Dr. Alex Delaware is a psychiatrist consulting to the Superior Court system. He has been asked to evaluate two young, teenage, killers of a toddler. They're accused of kidnapping the little girl right out from under her mother's nose and thrill killling her. Alex finds the two killers share desperately bad backgrounds, that nurture alone may explain their awful deed. However, one, Troy is a small, evil, manipulative boy who seems by nature prone to su...
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Self-Defense
Lucy Lowell was on the jury of the agonizing trial of a serial killer. A reoccurring nightmare of a girl being carried into the woods sent her to seek the help of Dr. Alex Delaware, a psychologist. Dr. Delaware believed it was more then just a nightmare. Alex's friend, Detective Milo Sturgis, looked into old police records. There was an unsolved missing persons report from about the same time they expected the dream to have taken place. The photo of the ... Silent Partner
Silent Partner is rather an earlier and a deeper insight of Dr. Delaware's life before he becomes further involved in his work as a police consultant. The betrayal of a former lover and psychological illness are the main plotlines of this book. ... Survival of the Fittest
Fast paced from the first murder...a child of an embassy big wig! Dr. Delaware sets forth to help the family search, or put them behind bars? Pay close attention to what the good Doc notices, as nothing goes unseen, just wait to see what he does with the facts and how he solves almost ancient, unsolved crime!! (As well...as the ongoing)He and Detective Milo Sturgis are perfectly suited to work together and their visiting pal, Daniel, adds to their suc... The Clinic
Normally, I really enjoy a good Delaware story and this was no exception, minus the conclusion. It just seemed to fall short and seemed almost forced. In other words, It just didn't seem plausible.... The Conspiracy Club
Jeremy Carrier is a young psychologist who is attempting to reconstruct his life after the violent murder of his girlfriend while detectives hound him as their primary suspect.
He begins receiving anonymous letters and puzzles from a person he believes to be a doctor within the same hospital where he works. These puzzles lead Jeremy to an elite group of individuals with very dark pasts. As he struggles to find his connection to these people,... The Murder Book
Ballantine, Oct 2002, 26.95
ISBN: 0345452534
Los Angeles psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware is stunned to receive the binder containing grisly police photographs of crime scenes with an outside logo, "THE MURDER BOOK". He shows his “gift” to his friend, long term police veteran Detective Milo Sturgis, who is equally shocked by the book, but one particular picture haunts him. The book includes the picture of one of his first cases, the mutilated bod...
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The Web
The best book by Kellerman I have read so far, its
plot deals with a muder mystery that is happening on
an island where Alex Delaware is spending vacation.
A very amusing book.... Therapy
Psychologist Alex Delaware and pal, Det. Milo Sturgis heading out for dinner and when sirens start to sound, it's not long before they're both once again knee deep in blood and corruption.
The team finds two youngsters in a parked car, apparently once engaged in what youths often do in parked cars, except they're now dead, murdered.
After informing the parents, the two find themselves struggling to make sense of the crime and find ... Twisted
Ballantine, Dec 2004, 26.95, 372 pp.
ISBN: 0345465253
LA Homicide Detective Petra Connor looks at the corpses of four dead people lying in a dance-club parking following a drive by massacre and wonders what connection link these victims.
At the same time that Petra struggles with no leads except rumors of a possible witness in hiding, twenty-two years old Ph.D. candidate Isaac Gomez has been analyzing homicide statistical patterns. He believ... When the Bough Breaks
The protagonist is a child psychologist, Alex Delaware, who after a few months retirement, though he is only 33, is asked by a friend, Milo, a police officer investigating a double murder, to have a word with a seven-year-old girl who may be a witness to the murder. The most horrific crime is gradually unfolded by Alex as he doggedly follows the trail from events that have been unexplained in the past, such as the apparent suicide of a paedophile in Ale...
