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Title: Therapy by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-345-45259-3 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 20 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.54 (24 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Your Basic Kellerman
Comment: If you like Jonathan Kellerman, you'll like this book--but some of the author's most annoying traits are rife in this particular outing, and they frankly drove me crazy.
First, the plot: Therapist Alex Delaware teams up with his police pal Milo Sturgis to help solve what seems at first to be a run-of-the-mill double murder: a young couple have been murdered while parked on a lovers' lane. But these murders are particularly and horribly brutal. The woman has not only been shot, but skewered with an iron bar. It's a big case of overkill, and a little digging unearths a particularly nasty underbelly to the murder and its aftermath.
As Milo and Alex dig into the multiple webs that surround this murder and its motive, the plot gets increasingly difficult, so that the reader has to stop more than once to unravel the latest string and put it in context. I know the author meant that to reflect the puzzle that the two are trying to solve, but it stopped me cold more than once.
And the other thing that stopped me cold many, many times was the endlessly intricate narration of streets and routes that Kellerman affects in each of his books. I grew up in LA. The streets are all real, and I know most of them. So when he says, "I drove down Robertson to Pico," I know exactly what he is talking about, and I have to stop reading to visualize it. This time out, he actually gets into the minute details of a neighborhood in which I grew up, and we're talking streets, hills, even foliage. WHY does he do this? Does anybody in the entire world need to know the in-depth "Mapquest" routing of every ride that Delaware takes? It's gone from simple author quirk to something so annoying that it takes away from each and every book he writes, and this one truly is the worst.
I can't say that "Therapy" isn't a fun book, especially as summertime reading. I finished it in a day. But be warned: Unless you enjoy map-reading for fun and pleasure, prepare to be annoyed throughout the otherwise fast-paced mystery.
Rating: 4
Summary: Psychologist, heal thyself.
Comment: In Jonathan Kellerman's latest thriller, "Therapy," Los Angeles psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide detective Milo Sturgis investigate the brutal murder of a young man and his girlfriend. The two victims, Gavin Quick and the unidentified woman who was found with him, were parked in a lonely area outside of Los Angeles when they were both shot in the head. Delaware, who consults for the Los Angeles Police Department, lends his psychological expertise to the investigation.
Sturgis and Delaware learn that Gavin had been seeing a popular therapist named Dr. Mary Lou Koppel, an egotistical publicity hound who is a frequent guest on radio and television talk shows. Milo and Alex are startled to learn that one of Koppel's former female patients had also been brutally murdered. Can the murders of Gavin Quick and this female patient somehow be related?
"Therapy" is a talky novel in which Sturgis and Delaware spend most of their time interviewing dozens of people, sometimes more than once. In between interviews, they frequent various restaurants and bars while they mull over the particulars of the case. Slowly, Alex and Milo begin to shed some light on this complicated mystery.
The plot of "Therapy" is engrossing and the characters are lively enough. One aspect of the book that I found interesting is that the author, himself a respected clinical psychologist, depicts three psychologists in "Therapy" who have bad judgment and questionable ethics. Although the book would have been even stronger with tighter editing, "Therapy" is still an entertaining thriller with some original twists and turns.
Rating: 2
Summary: More than a little disappointed....
Comment: I always look forward to Jonathan Kellerman's books - but I didn't like this one. The plot just didn't do it for me. I didn't learn enough about the characters - there was just too much fluff for me. Hope the next one is better...I really miss his early books...
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