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Monster

By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
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Publisher's summary

Alex Delaware is back! And in Jonathan Kellerman's riveting and ingenious new novel, Monster, he 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.

With Monster's incomparably deft characterizations and dazzlingly dark plot twists, Jonathan Kellerman further enhances his literary position as master of the psychological thriller.

Psyched? Listen to all of Jonathan Kellerman's Dr. Alex Delaware thrillers.
©1999 Jonathan Kellerman (P)2009 Random House Audio

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not a new release

This book was actually available in audio back in the late 1990's - like 1998. If you are use to the new reading and style of an Alex Delaware read, don't purchase. It's a terrible version.

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Editing horrible

What disappointed you about Monster?

Bad editing. Will repeat lines twice in many chapters. Happened at least 10 times so far and I am only on chapter 20. Cover says read by John Rubinstein but actually read by Alexander Adams.

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Mostly good Kellerman

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Some irrational plot connections - not necessarily Kellerman's best work but better than some others.

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Great story - horrible narrator

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I had an extremely hard time following which character was which. They all sounded the same and it was very frustrating. I will be VERY careful in the future to pay attention to who is narrating when my favorite authors pop up -- not just buy the book anyway!

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Worthy of Kellerman

Monster has the Kellerman complexity, the signature digging beneath the surface of how events and people appear. It involves the reader and makes the reader care about the story.

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Lots of repeated lines

This book has several times repeated the previous line in book. The editing is bad but the story is great.

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Good story

As usual, Jonathan Kellerman told a great story. Only problem I had was with the recording. Kept repeating a paragraph here and there.

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Not John Rubenstein.

The illustration of the book jacket said the narrator was John Rubenstein. Just not the truth. It's a Books on Tape version that wasn't edited well. Someone should have actually listened to it before releasing it. There are duplicate sentences in multiple places. Overall I am disappointed.

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Epic Kellerman

was skeptical of the narrator after hearing Rubenstein perform kellerman. after a few chapters I LOVE Alexander. great story, great narration.

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One of the best of the series

As always, deep character enhancement, steady progression to the superlative end. As a re-read, still one of the best!

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