I picked this up at the church used book sale.

This was my first book of Jonathan Kellerman's and I didn't really get into it. I didn't identify too much with the main character; he actually seemed kind of bland. The case he was working on was interesting: Dr. Kevorkian-type of guy who goes around euthanizing people with terminal illnesses is murdered by someone who hooks him up to his own euthanasia machine. But ultimately it was just OK.

Sending off tomorrow to BruceAlexander as part of a book relay.

Received this great book in the mail
Now we eagerly track its trail ------>
Thank you, Kerri - you're a doll
The "Doctor" made a house call, after all!

I have to agree with you, Kerri - this was not one of Kellerman's best. The book could have been half as long -- there was way too much filler! Milo was barely in the book, and all it seemed to consist of was Delaware's musings and nonstop analyzings of "whodunit" (both Joanne Doss and Dr. Mate - not to mention what everyone was wearing and what their houses looked like! The details could choke an elephant, they're so abundant). And then the ultimate insult comes when Kellerman never explains what happened to Leimert Fusco, the former FBI agent-come-rogue-predator. We don't know if he got away; or if the FBI had caught him and wasn't saying so; or how he had even tracked Ulrich to that Malibu cabin that wasn't even his (how did he know to find him there? The author never explains this); or even if he was the one who had shot Ulrich/Burke/Rushton in the first place! That was a big disappointment and made for a terribly sloppy ending.

This book was written in 2001, and it seems to me even back then that Kellerman should have retired Delaware. The books with him as lead character have just become so lackluster.

The last four Kellerman books I have read ("Rage," "Flesh and Blood," "Self Defense" and now this one), have been great disappointments. Really mediocre novels. What has happened to this once-great writer?

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