Killer

An Alex Delaware Novel

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

After 35 riveting, internationally acclaimed novels of psychological suspense, number-one New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Kellerman returns with his most stunning thriller to date. Killer is a mesmerizing L.A. noir portrayal of the darkest impulses of human nature carried to shocking extremes.

The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by Connie against her sister and begins to realize that there is much about the siblings he has failed to comprehend. And when the court battle between the Sykes sisters erupts into cold, calculating murder and a rapidly growing number of victims, Alex knows he’s been snared in a toxic web of pathology.

Nothing would please Alex more than to be free of the ugly spectacle known as Sykes v. Sykes. But then the little girl at the center of the vicious dispute disappears and Alex knows he must work with longtime friend Detective Milo Sturgis, braving an obstacle course of Hollywood washouts, gangbangers, and self-serving jurists in order to save an innocent life.

Killer is Kellerman - and Delaware - at their finest.

©2014 Jonathan Kellerman (P)2014 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

"Jonathan Kellerman has justly earned his reputation as a master of the psychological thriller." ( People)

"Kellerman really knows how to keep those pages turning." ( The New York Times Book Review)

Good story but excessive bad language

Good story but excessive bad language, at times it fit the character, others just seemed unnecessary

Good series

I like the Alex Delaware series and especially like reading them between 5 star reads which don't come often enough. John Rubenstein performs them admirably and has grown to be an expected and intrinsic part of the books. The regular characters are always enjoyable and never deviate from their personas. Plots are always well constructed and interesting. These are rarely suspenseful reads and I enjoy them because they are a relaxing read which won't keep the adrenaline pumping into the wee hours of the morning.

Read all the others, this is okay

Its not bad, starts off well, middle is good, end is rather simple and put together to just end. If you read this series you have to get this no matter the review, it is Harry and that's about it.

FANTASTIC! In awe of the narrator/author partnersh

I always feel a little guilty when I praise the amazing talents of a narrator who I believe was obvious dedicated to his profession so I want to be clear that it's obvious Jonathan Kellerman does the same by continued partnership with narrator John Rubinstein (I just can't listen to the first books in the series with different author and hate it when there's a fantastic author who's written a fascinating series BUT LACKS KNOWLEDGE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING WITH A CONSISTENT/THE SAME NARRATOR for each book in the series. There are so many additional series written by other authors that I won't listen to because of the myriad of narrators they use. Gentlemen, I appreciate so much- your partnership and the dedication to your profession. As someone who has to kind of force myself to listen to fiction- these stories are so unique BUT ARE LIKELY REAL to some extent or at the very minimum FEEL very real. And Kellerman's use of DIVERSITY IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE makes his writings even more realistic BECAUSE NARRATOR JOHN RUBINSTEIN NAILS the voices and personalities of these very different people that you know exactly what type of character each of them are. Not going to spoil anything for listeners but I truly believe this is one of Kellerman and Rubinstein's finest books in the Alex Delaware series!!

Wild!

This Alex Delaware novel didn’t let me down. As usual, Jonathan Kellerman did an excellent job building memorable characters without crowding to many extras in. It was an excellent, wild, well written thriller with many twists and turns that had me guessing to the very end. If your an Alex Delaware fan I believe you’ll love this novel. If you’ve never read his stories but enjoy a great psychological thriller I recommend this book!

Why

The tunnel vision of Milo on One suspect in every single book is a Big Turn Off.