Monster

An Alex Delaware Novel

De: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrado por: Alexander Adams

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

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!

Loved it

I really enjoyed this book. Suspenseful and kept my interest until the end. On to the next book in the series.

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.

A VERY ENGAGING LISTEN

Loved this story. and really happy that Milo played a big part this time. probably my favorite so far.

Lots of repeated lines

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

Worst one yet

The story line was blah and very little substance to keep you listening. Don't buy ...skip this one.

kellerman fan

I love all kellerman work. this one is not exception. I'm going to keep adding his books.

Mostly good Kellerman

Any additional comments?

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

B-

I've listened to a few of Kellermans, Alex Delaware novels now, I started on the very last book unknowingly. I liked it and loved the narrator. so I've been back tracking. This narrator does ok, but on some of the male voices at points it was hard to tell the difference. At one point I stopped the book and went into the reviews because I was curious if anyone else had experienced where the narration repeated in places, or if it was caused by messages coming into my phone. but it's because of terrible editing., because it does repeat in several different spots. John Kellerman has a tendency to over do the descriptions of what people are wearing how they look and room they are in. At least to me, over all it's entertaining. I drive long haul so I'm always looking for interesting stories. I'll try another one, we'll see.

Epic Kellerman

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