Monster (An Alex Delaware Novel)

by Jonathan Kellerman | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 0345413873 Global Overview for this book
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Journal Entry 1 by PJCommunityOBCZ from Panther Junction, Texas USA on Thursday, April 3, 2008
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A gift for i0xi0x, thanks to Cliff's Wish List and rabck.com. Enjoy!!

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This is one of nine surprise Wish List RABCKs I received from Moody-Blue! Thank you so much.

Alex Delaware series: Book 13

Journal Entry 4 by i0xi0x at Youngstown, Ohio USA on Sunday, February 23, 2014
This was another great one in the Delaware series. Although the "perp" was revealed pretty early on, there were still some twists at the end.

From goodreads.com
Consulting psychologist Alex Delaware has a novel approach to crime-solving: he uses his training to unlock the secrets in the minds of the victims and jiggles the clues he finds there until the right scenario emerges. So when Alex's LAPD buddy Milo finds the hacked-up body of a woman psychologist named Claire Argent in an abandoned car trunk--the second such murder in eight months--Alex heads for her place of employment: the Starkweather State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

One of Argent's patients at Starkweather is Ardis "Monster" Peake, imprisoned for the unbelievably brutal murders of his mother and the family she worked for, including a small child and a baby. There's at least one eerie similarity between the mutilation of their bodies and Argent's: in all the bodies, the eyes were taken or destroyed. But Peake, diagnosed as schizophrenic and psychotic, is a well-behaved vegetable due to a steady diet of Thorazine, and he hasn't left the hospital since his incarceration 15 years before. How is it, then, that Claire Argent's assistant, Heidi Ott, swears she heard Peake say, "Dr. A. Bad eyes in a box" soon after he hears only the bare fact of her death? And why does Alex find Peake so empathetic, in spite of his violent past and chillingly vacant mind? When other mutilated bodies turn up, Alex and Milo begin to suspect that the real monster is very much at large. Like Kellerman's 12 previous Alex Delaware mysteries, Monster builds to a big, teeth-clenching bang and ends with some very satisfying surprises.


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