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Monster

An Alex Delaware Novel

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Monster

By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
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Alex Delaware faces one of the most grisly and baffling mysteries of his career: How can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up in a supposedly secure institution for homicidal madmen predict brutal murders in the outside world? Delaware and his friend and partner Detective Milo Sturgis must penetrate this enigma in order to stop the horrific killings.

A marginal actor is found dead in a car trunk, sawn in half. Months later, a psychologist at a hospital for the criminally insane is discovered murdered and mutilated in a tantalizingly similar way. When reports of an inmate's incoherent ramblings begin to make frightening sense as predictions of yet more slayings, Delaware and Sturgis are drawn into a web of family secrets, vengeance, and manipulation—both inside the asylum and on the streets of L.A., where death, drugs, and sex are marketed as commodities. The climactic discovery they make as they race to prevent more killings gives fresh and terrifying meaning to the concept of monstrosity. Genre Fiction Mystery Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Emotionally Gripping Exciting Fiction

Critic reviews

Praise for Jonathan Kellerman

"Kellerman doesn't just write psychological thrillers--he owns the genre."
--Detroit Free Press

Praise for the New York Times bestseller Billy Straight, by Jonathan Kellerman

"The title character is a noble creation: a kind of urban Huckleberry Finn. . . The writing is vivid, the suspense sustained, and Kellerman has arranged one final, exquisitely surprising plot twist to confound the complacent reader." --People

"Billy Straight is everything a thriller ought to be. The writing is excellent. The plotting is superior. The characters ring true. . . . A taut, compelling story." --USA Today

"Nobody evokes Los Angeles better than Jonathan Kellerman. . . . Riveting."
--Los Angeles Times
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This is one of Jonathan Kellerman's best books, interesting plot, and Alexander Adams reads it very well, every character gets his/hers own way of speech without getting into caricature. There is a lot of interviewing in this book but Alexander Adams makes it very real and you don't have to work out who is who.

What I don't like about this audio book is the very careless editing. Many times Adams reads the same sentence again, to try a different intonation and mood. That's fine, I guess audio books are recorded this way, not Adam's fault. But some dumb producer forgot to edit the first takes out! It breaks the mood of the narration and it shows the sloppy way this audio book is thrown on the market. It is like reading a book with many missprints on the pages. A pity because book and reader are fine. So five stars for book, one star for execution.

Great book, very good reader, sloppy editing

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Another cracking story featuring Milo Sturgis - probably the only gay LA cop in fiction - and his psychologist friend/assistant Alex Delaware. Mixes dark humour with very dark happenings, very well told and superbly read. I thought I'd worked it out but I was in for a surprise! Kellerman's books are consistently excellent and all the better for being slightly offbeat and this is one of his best.

Clever story, cleverly told and well narrated

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