Alex Delaware #16
Ballantine Books
October 2002
On Sale: October 1, 2002
Featuring: Alex Delaware
416 pages ISBN: 0345452534 EAN: 9780345452535 Hardcover Add to Wish List
In seventeen consecutive bestselling novels, Jonathan
Kellerman has
distinguished himself as the master of the psychological
thriller. Now in
Kellerman's most compelling and powerful novel yet, L.A.
psychologist-detective
Alex Delaware confronts a long-unsolved murder of
unspeakable brutality -- an
ice-cold case whose resolution threatens his survival, and
that of longtime
friend, homicide detective, Milo Sturgis.
The nightmare begins when Alex receives a strange package
in the
mail with no return address. Inside is an ornate album
filled with
gruesome crime scene photos -- a homicide scrapbook entitled
The Murder
Book. Alex can find no reason for anyone to send him this
compendium of
death, but when Milo views the book, he is immediately
shaken by one of
the images: a young woman, tortured, strangled, and dumped
near a
freeway ramp.
This was one of Milo's first cases as a rookie homicide
cop: a
vicious killing that he failed to solve, because just as he
and his
training partner began to make headway, the department
closed them
down. Being forced to abandon the young victim tormented
Milo. But his
fears prevented him from pursuing the truth, and over the
years he
managed to forget. Or so he thought.
Now, two decades later, someone has chosen to stir up the
past. As
Alex and Milo set out to uncover what really happened twenty
years ago,
their every move is followed and their lives are placed in
jeopardy.
The relentless investigation reaches deep into L.A.'s
nerve-centers of
power and wealth-past and present. While peeling back layer
after layer
of ugly secrets, they discover that the murder of one
forgotten girl
has chilling ramifications that extend far beyond the tragic
loss of a
single life.
A classic story of good and evil, sacrifice and sin, The
Murder Book
is a gripping page-turner that illuminates the darkest
corridors of the
human mind. It is a stunning tour de force.
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