MONSTER

Kellerman, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 067945960X / ISBN 13: 9780679459606

Published by Random House, New York, 1999

About this Item

Edgar Award winner Kellerman's thirteenth mystery/psychological thriller featuring Los Angeles-based child psychologist Alex Delaware.

Seller Inventory # 000451

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MONSTER
• Publisher: Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067945960X
• ISBN 13: 9780679459606
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Amateur Sleuth
  • Crime
  • California

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Jonathan Kellerman is one of the world's most popular authors. He has brought his expertise as a child psychologist to numerous bestselling tales of suspense, including twelve previous Alex Delaware novels; The Butcher's Theater, a story of serial killing in Jerusalem; and, most recently, Billy Straight. He has also published two volumes on psychology and two children's books, and is the author of Savage Spawn, a nonfiction book about violent children. He and his wife, the novelist Faye Kellerman, have four children.