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Silent Partner

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

The best-selling author of When The Bough Breaks, Blood Test, and Over The Edge delivers the most stunning novel yet, featuring psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware.

At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist, Alex encounters a face from his own past: Sharon Ransom, an exquisite, alluring lover who left him abruptly more than a decade earlier. Sharon now hints that she desperately needs help, but Alex evades her. The next day she is dead, an apparent suicide. Driven by guilt and sadness, Alex plunges into the maze of Sharon's life - a journey that will take him through the pleasure palaces of California's ultra-rich, into the dark closets of a family's disturbing past, and finally into the alleyways of the mind, where childhood terrors still hold sway.

Also available on BDD Audio Cassette.

©2003 Jonathan Kellerman (P)2012 Random House Audio

Critic reviews

"A complex and haunting story of tangled personalities, deeply buried family secrets, and of violence lying thinly under the surface ... Hits the reader right between the eyes." ( Los Angeles Times Book Review)

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Disappointing..not worth the credit.

Way too convoluted and choppy. Robin is whiney. Not enough Milo. Not worth the credit.

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One voice for all doesn't do it for me.

I love the book, but it could use more than one narrator. One for men and one for women. However, I will continue to buy this series because I just love Alex and Milo.

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Great author and characters

Would you listen to Silent Partner again? Why?

No, I usually only go through a book once

Who was your favorite character and why?

Alex Delaware

Have you listened to any of Alexander Adams’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No

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It was a little slow at times, but overall a great book

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Good story, but....

Good story but too many gratuitous graphic female anatomy references. Leave out unnecessary sexual language and get on with it! I am not a prude but enough is enough. There is such a thing as common decency.

As for the narrator... sounds older that Alex is perceived, and leaves many overly long pauses, often in mid sentence, which leads one to believe It is the end of a chapter. Totally wrong for Davenport. Won’t purchase further books narrated by him.

I did not finish book. Too many distracting factors. Wasn't THAT Interesting.

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Another great book

I love the characters can't wait to download the next one in the series Today

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More complexity

This story twists and turns with the best of them. Just when I thought I understood, I realized I did not understand. This is another fascinating Jonathan Kellerman Alex Delaware listen!

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Another good Delaware novel

Jonathan Kellerman never disappoints. His detective novels are so very different than most that I read. Sort of feels like a break. But they are very intense and you have to have the time to pay close attention.

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Bad So Cal pronunciations

Narrator needs to learn how to pronounce street and place names in So Cal Very distracting.

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Very characters

Excellent, excellent, excellent book! Nearing the middle and end I could not put it down because I was too busy trying to hurry up and find out how many heck did this happen and who did it, LOL

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Engaging and Complex

I have read quite a few of the Kellerman works but found this one to be very engaging and unexpected. A good read.

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