monster
An Alex Delaware Novel [#13]
by Jonathan Kellerman
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Alex Delaware is back! With a riveting and devilishly ingenious story about an asylum inmate who seems able to predict grisly slayings in the outside world. How can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up in a supposedly secure institution for homicidal madmen predict brutal murders in the outside world?This is the enigma that Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis must penetrate in order to stop these horrific killings.
First, a marginal actor is found dead in a car trunk, sawn in half. Months later, a psychologist at Starkweather Hospital for the Criminally Insane is discovered murdered and mutilated in a tantalizingly similar way. Dr. Claire Argent has been working caringly with Ardis Peake, a mental patient locked up for decades after he annihilated his mother and the ranching family that rescued him from homelessness.
When reports of Peake's incoherent ramblings begin to make frightening sense as predictions of yet more murders, Delaware and Sturgis are drawn into a web of family secrets, vengeance, and manipulation - inside Starkweather and on the streets of L.A., where death, drugs, and sex are marketed as commodities.
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Jonathan Kellerman, Alex Delaware, Series, #13, Fiction, Literature, Novel, Hardcover, Paperback, e-book, Police, Detective, Crime, Serial, Murder, Forecaster, Forecasting, Mystery, Psychologists, Psychopaths, Psychological, Thriller, Suspense, Violent, Offenders, Dangerously, Mentally ill, Detectives, Serial murderers, Serial murder investigation, Milo Sturgis (Fictitious character), Serial murders, Alex Delaware (Fictitious character), Mentally ill offenders, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, psychological, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Delaware, alex (fictitious character), fiction, Sturgis, milo (fictitious character), fictionTimes
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monster: An Alex Delaware Novel [#13]
September 2000, Ballantine Publishing Group, a div. of Random House, Inc.
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December 7, 2000, Time Warner Paperbacks
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First Sentence
"THE GIANT KNEW Richard Nixion."
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*Manufactured in the United States of America* / Published simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Ltd., Toronto. / This edition by arrangement with Random House, Inc. /
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"THE GIANT KNEW Richard Nixion."
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A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk. Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent ramblings of an inmate at the presumably secure institution begin to make chilling sense--they are, in fact, horrifying predictions.
Yet how can a barely functional psychotic locked behind asylum walls possibly know such vivid details of crimes committed in the outside world?
Drawn into a labyrinth of secrets, revenge, sex, and manipulation, Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis set out to unlock this enigma and put an end to the brutal killings--before the madman predicts their own demise. . . .--Bk Cvr
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