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Title: Blood Test by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-553-56963-5 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (22 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Reasonably good mystery
Comment: Jonathan Kellerman, Blood Test (Signet, 1986)
I spent most of this book waiting for that proverbial other shoe. Kellerman, in my mind, has always been one of those Andrew Vachss-style one-trick ponies who blames all of the world's problems on one narrow, and possibly specious, band of the psychotherapeutic spectrum. I hasten to add that I based that opinion on reviews and a cursory reading of Kellerman's first Alex Delaware novel, When the Bough Breaks, a few years back (I read it in tandem with one of Vachss' books, which may have further colored my thinking). Removed from both Vachss and the rather amateurish effort of Kellerman's first novel, I picked up Blood Test more as a way to pad the numbers for 2001-- skim fifty pages, dump it, chalk up another book in the it's-been-read pile. Blood Test, however, surprised me.
Alex Delaware returns, this time to try and hunt down a kidnapped cancer patient. The list of suspects isn't too long, but it's certainly juicy-- the kid's parents (who have also gone missing), an alternative-medicine-loving pot-smoking ex-hippie doctor, and an organically-minded SoCal cult founded by an ex-Beverly Hills lawyer who got shot in the head. Oh, yeah, and the everpresent "random crime" theory. Add to this Delaware's being stalked by the extremely angry husband in a recently-finished child custody case who lost and lost big (and blames Delaware, of course), and you get 400 pages of pretty-durn-good mystery.
The shoe does drop, of course. What makes Kellerman predictable isn't whodunit, but whytheydunit. In relation to many mystery writers, this is quite the handicap, because knowing the why before you open the cover will certainly narrow the playing field (and anyone with a passing acquaintance with Alex Delaware will know the why of it at that point). On the up side, though, Kellerman's one-man crusade isn't nearly the week-old scrod that Andrew Vachss' one-man crusade is, and that makes Kellerman a whole lot more readable. Standard mystery fare, but easy reading and compelling enough to keep the pages turning. ** 1/2
Rating: 4
Summary: Vintage Kellerman!!!!!
Comment: Kellerman is a master of mystery and suspense; he just cannot write a bad book!!!
In this edition of the series, it is a case psychologist Dr Alex Delaware has never encountered before. Five year old Woody Swope is sick, but that is not the REAL problem.
It is his parents.
They refuse to any treatment that could save their child.
Alex embarks on a mission to convince the Swope's-only to discover they have boplted from the hospital-and taken their ill son.
Worse, the motel room where they were staying is empty , except for a shocking bloodstain.
The Swopes and their ill son have disappeared into the corrupt shadows of the city.
Now Alex and his homicide investigator friend Milo have no choice but to pursue them. They have entered a realm where drugs, fantasies, and sex are for sale.
Kellerman has scored another touchdown with this book and those that enjoy suspense with a twist, enter Kellerman's world if u dare.
Rating: 5
Summary: Second novel test
Comment: Kellerman takes it, and passes it with ease.
The book is original and ingenious. The solution is very clever and very shocking. He builds a story with characters you care about and events you just can't fathom. He unfolds it gradually, at great pace.
Writing is nothing special as to quiality, but its enjoyable prose and Delaware is a likeable and well drawn characters. Shame not to see Robin again this time round.
Great mystery novel, great solution. Unexpected and shocking, very effective.
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Title: When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0553569619 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Over the Edge: An Alex Delaware Novel by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0451206002 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Devil's Waltz by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0553563521 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Private Eyes by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345460707 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Silent Partner by Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0345460685 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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