The Murder Book

Granted, I am an Alex Delaware fan. I like Kellerman's earlier works better as he stayed in the area of child psychology, which is his forte. I did enjoy the murder book on audible. I made two attempts at reading it and did not succeed, however, as a listen, it was worth the time. As usual, Kellerman's characters were interesting and the story, while not his best, was engaging.

I'm amazed other listeners were so generous, giving this book 3 stars. I have to stretch to give it two. It's confusing, repeatitive, violent and poorly written. There's no motivation for a relationship with the deceased so from the beginning, the listener's care factor is slight. Several stories woven in are so poorly related that the listener doesn't care how it turns out. Not one bit impresssive since there are such good books out there.

I was thinking about purchasing a more recent work by this author when a reviewer said it didn't measure up to previous works, such as the Murder Book. If that's the case, I won't be listening to the newer one. This book wasn't bad, but it doesn't have me clamoring for more. I suppose the characters are real, since there's nothing particularly likeable about Milo and Alex. I was also surprised at the way each pulled theories seemingly out of thin air, most of which turned out to be dead on. The book's climax wasn't particularly satisfying, which was a bit disappointing after 15+ hours of listening. I'll probably give a listen to one more of Kellerman's best reviewed works and see if I feel different. One last point; the narrator did a good job.

This one started off interesting but soon became tied up in a knot of detail that had no relation to the story. If you like a lot a gruesome detail and not very elegant sexual situations, you might like it.

The story takes awhile to get started and even when it does get going a bit it still isnt really worth listening to. I think the author did a good job with bringing the characters to life, but failed on making it a strong ending.

His charachacter's, were all whiny and flat. After the first half of the book I hoped they would all grow up. Didn't happen. Glad when it was over.

I have to admit I'm an avid reader of Kellerman books, and read this one after I had read many others. But I just could not get past the first few hours. Too tedius.

this book probally has a good story but is hard to follow. It is very frgamented and the redundancey makes it very hard to follow the story.It is probally best done in abriged version.

It helps to know something of his previous work to enjoy this. It also helps to know that he made Milo gay because the LA Police cheif announced one that that there were NO gay officers in LA. Milo's choice of gender in a partner plays a part here.

Parts of this are chilling and as always in Delaware stories the past comes back to haunt the present.

I have read all the Alex Delaware novels. While this is not the best is is still very good and some things in it will haunt you. Just as they haunted the cop that kept "The Murder Book"

I have read a lot of his books and found this to be another good story. Not his best, but a good listen.