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Title: Flesh and Blood by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-345-41389-X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.41 (75 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A losing streak continues
Comment: Jonathan Kellerman is a good writer. The Alex Delaware series used to be good, which keeps me coming back hoping it would be good again. This is still not happening.
All the recent Delaware novels have followed the same pattern. Delaware is presented with a mystery, he goes from person to person talking to them with a minimal amount of action, and finally there is a scene which presents some danger to Delaware as the murderer is revealed. In this case, Delaware doesn't really even solve the mystery but instead stumbles onto the killer, a minor character who physically appears in less than ten pages before the end.
The big flaw is that Delaware has become a non-character, more of an observer than an actual personality. Even Kellerman's attempts to create a little personal tension in Delaware's love life fail because Robin is also a non-character. She basically has had walk-on roles in the past few books, and here her appearance isn't much greater (she hardly appears at all in the first half of the book).
Kellerman still has talent, as evidenced in Billy Straight, but here he fails. I suppose he could revamp Alex, but that may actually be rather jarring. It would probably be better to start a new series altogether. Kellerman has enough marketability that he could easily do this. In the meanwhile, if you must read a Kellerman book, read one of his wife's instead: her series is actually getting better with time.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Chilling Psychological Thriller
Comment: Dr. Delaware is contacted by the mother of Lauren Teague, a girl, he had seen years earlier for a couple sessions as a teenager. Lauren has disappeared and her mother is concerned. Alex remembers the girl well. Not only did see her as a teenager, he saw her years later at a bachelor party where she was a stripper. Both found themselves a little shamefaced. Later she'd gone by his office and told him that she was now studying psychology herself and was paying her way through school by stripping. Conversation turned to her family and after a heated discussion, she stormed out of his office.
Alex doesn't find Lauren for her mother, the police do as she turns up dead, the victim of a gangland-style killing. How did Lauren's body end up in a dumpster, apparently murdered execution style? As Alex and Milo begin to investigate, they find themselves led into the underworld of the sex industry, where nothing is what it seems. It seems like Lauren's death is tied with the brutal deaths of some of her former friends, work associates. To say nothing of the mysterious disappearance of her ex-roommate.
Once again Jonathon Kellerman has written a chilling psychological thriller with a story that winds through the world of prostitution, psychological experimentation and big money. He is one of the best storytellers around today. He puts believable dialogue into the mouths of believable characters, he delivers non-stop suspense and usually, as with "Flesh and Blood", he gives you more twists and turns than a curvy mountain road. You won't be able to put this one down.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not a bimbo
Comment: A former working girl is dead. She is bright, ambitious, and a student at the time of her death. She was notable for her detachment. Nonetheless, her death evidences the fact that somebody else was in control.
Another blonde, a college student, a person considerably younger than the other girl, Lauren, is missing. Next, a person interviewed by the police in the course of the investigation turns up dead. Alex Delaware and Milo, the police officer, feel considerable chagrin.
The author uses a ficitious lifestyle magazine and the founder of it as one of the storylines in the book. Although the subject of psychology arises since Alex Delaware is a psychologist, as subject matter it is peripheral to the main plot. What is suggested is that persons who pursue dangerous lines of work create chaotic zones around them as more and more people who surrounded Lauren Teague in life die.
Mystery lovers will find this a satisfying yarn. The smooth writing is another reason to enjoy the book.
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Title: The Murder Book by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345413903 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Dr. Death by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345413881 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Monster : A Novel by JONATHAN KELLERMAN ISBN: 0345413873 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Survival of the Fittest by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345458842 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Cold Heart: An Alex Delaware Novel by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345452550 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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