Jonathan Kellerman, Author . Random $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-679-45962-0
In Kellerman's 15th crowd-pleasing Alex Delaware novel (after 2000's Dr. Death), the Los Angeles–based psychologist is tested by a former patient, his conscience and the strains his police work place on his relationship with lover...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author . Ballantine $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-345-45253-5
Bestseller Kellerman's 16th Alex Delaware novel is a hoot of a whodunit, a classic puzzler to keep the most staid traditionalist gleefully scratching his or her head until the wee hours. It's also a noir of gothic proportions, a descent into
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author . Ballantine $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-345-45255-9
"This one's a twister, isn't it?" Kellerman is at it again with number 17 in his highly successful series starring smooth L.A. psychologist Alex Delaware. In this latest installment, Delaware is called in (via Homicide pal Milo...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author . Ballantine $26.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-345-45257-3
Kellerman re-invigorates a number of tried-and-true mystery conventions in this gripping, intricately plotted, non–Alex Delaware stand-alone novel of psychological suspense. A psychologist at City Central Hospital, Jeremy Carrier, is...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author . Ballantine $28.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-345-45259-7
Kellerman returns to series hero Alex Delaware after last year's gripping stand-alone, The Conspiracy Club
. The success of the long-running Delaware series is testament to both the author's skills and the reading public's hunger for...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author . Ballantine $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-46525-2
Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor takes center stage in bestseller Kellerman's elaborate, suspenseful, albeit improbable, thriller. Connor, who assisted Kellerman's main series detective, psychologist Alex Delaware, in 2003's A...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author . Ballantine $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-46706-5
Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware stars again after playing second fiddle to Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor in last year's Twisted
. It's been eight years since Alex provided a psychiatric evaluation of two teenagers, Troy Turner and
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author . Ballantine $26.95 (365p) ISBN 978-0-345-45261-0
In bestseller Kellerman's pulse-pounding 20th Alex Delaware novel (after 2005's Rage
), the Los Angeles psychologist looks into the murder of attractive 23-year-old Michaela Brand, an aspiring actress. Soon after Michaela and a fellow acting
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author . Ballantine $26.95 (347p) ISBN 978-0-345-45263-4
The 21st Alex Delaware novel (after 2006's Gone
) from bestseller Kellerman contains fewer twists than usual for this contemporary thriller series. Once again, Delaware, an accomplished psychologist, teams with his friend Milo Sturgis, an LAPD...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author . Ballantine $26.95 (337p) ISBN 978-0-345-46527-6
Bestseller Kellerman serves up all the elements his fans have come to love in the 22nd entry in his Alex Delaware series (Obsession
, etc.), including an intriguing plot, likable regular characters supported by an interesting secondary cast,...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author . Ballantine $27 (353p) ISBN 978-0-345-49513-6
In this run-of-the-mill police procedural from bestseller Kellerman, his 23rd novel to feature L.A. consulting psychologist Alex Delaware (after Compulsion
), high school miscreant Chance Brandt has been assigned to perform community service at the...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author . Ballantine $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-49514-3
PI Aaron Fox and L.A. cop Moe Reed, interracial half-brothers who played minor roles in 2008's Bones
, take center stage in bestseller Kellerman's routine 24th Alex Delaware novel. When Fox, who used to work for the LAPD, looks into the...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author . Ballantine $28 (355p) ISBN 978-0-345-49515-0
L.A. police lieutenant Milo Sturgis investigates a double homicide at the site of an unfinished, obscenely large mansion in bestseller Kellerman's nerve-tingling 24th Alex Delaware novel (after Bones
). Construction halted on the house two...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author . Ballantine $28 (337p) ISBN 978-0-345-50567-5
Deputy Chief Weinberg assigns LAPD Lt. Milo Sturgis a particularly sensitive murder case at the outset of bestseller Kellerman’s smooth if routine 25th Alex Delaware novel (after Evidence
). Elise Freeman, a teacher and tutor at exclusive...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Bantam Books $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08013-1
Kellerman devises a psychologically complex, highly satisfying plot in this latest mystery (after Time Bomb ) to feature child psychologist Alex Delaware, although we wait too long for the best parts and although Delaware, his love life on hold,...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09205-9
Kellerman's psychologist/sleuth Alex Delaware nimbly executes tricky steps of his own when called in to consult on the mysterious ailments afflicting a baby being seen at his training hospital in Los Angeles. In his seventh appearance (after Private
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08919-6
The latest Dr. Alex Delaware novel, after Devil's Waltz , follows the child psychologist on an intricately plotted, murder-strewn course that started 20 years earlier when he was on staff at a Los Angeles children's hospital. Recently, Alex has...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-553-08920-2
Returning in top form, Kellerman's semi-retired psychotherapist, Dr. Alex Delaware, who was introduced in When the Bough Breaks (1985), traces a young woman's dreams back to crimes committed 20 years earlier. A few months after serving on an L.A....
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-08921-9
His 11th adventure takes Southern California psychologist/sleuth Alex Delaware to a remote Pacific island where hidden evils of the past and present are gradually, harrowingly, brought to light. While his L.A. house is being renovated, Alex, his...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Bantam Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-553-08922-6
Kellerman is at his page-turning best in his latest Alex Delaware adventure (after The Web), an investigation into the savage stabbing murder of Hope Devane, a psychology professor and celebrity author. The LAPD, unable to solve the case after three
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-08923-3
Why is it so hard to put down a Kellerman thriller, even though they're strewn with red herrings, the coincidences demand grand suspensions of disbelief and the main characters--psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware; his lover, Robin; his best friend, gay...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Random House Inc $25.95 (467p) ISBN 978-0-679-45959-0
Although this is only the second of Kellerman's 14 novels not to feature psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware (the first was Butcher's Theater, 1988), it has all the author's familiar strengths: a broad cast of well-defined characters, a fast-moving plot...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Random House Inc $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-679-45960-6
In top form in his latest mystery featuring L.A. forensic psychologist Alex Delaware (who had a bit part in the author's previous novel, Billy Straight), Kellerman devises a deviously twisted, contemporary tale that draws pulsing suspense from the...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Random House Inc $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-679-45961-3
A series of well-publicized gentle deaths are the work of self-appointed angel of mercy Dr. Eldon Mate, who attends to the terminally ill in cheap hotel rooms or in the back of his van. Now Mate himself is dead, carved up and found by two joggers...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Scribner Book Company $14.95 (257p) ISBN 978-0-689-11634-6
Dr. Alexander Davenport, a child psychologist in Los Angeles, is called in to evaluate the case of a leukemia patient whose parents want to discontinue chemotherapy. When the boy disappears from the hospital and his parents are found dead, the only...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Scribner Book Company $17.95 (373p) ISBN 978-0-689-11635-3
The third novel to feature child psychologist Alex Delaware begins with a desperate, garbled phone call from former patient Jamey Cadmus, genius of record and heir to a construction fortune. The next day, Jamey is accused of the Lavender Slashings,...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-553-28592-5
Stricken with guilt over the suicide of a former lover, child psychologist Alex Delaware is driven to understand the circumstances that led to her death. ``Kellerman bares a dark, brooding side of his appealing series' detective in this complex tale
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Dark Harvest $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-913165-62-1
This is the third of Block's superb Matt Scudder series to appear (it was first issued by Dell in paperback back in 1977), and its return now in hardcover from Dark Harvest (which did the first, Sins of the Fathers , last year) is great news for...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Bantam $7.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-553-57220-9
Kellerman's latest thriller, in which a case of recovered memory may hold the clue to an unsolved murder, spent seven weeks on PW's bestseller list. (Dec.)
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Bantam $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-553-57227-8
Sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware discovers that a respected scientist's offer of an expense-paid vacation is too good to be true. Kellerman's latest thriller spent 11 weeks on PW's bestseller list. (Oct.)
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-553-57230-8
PW gave a starred review to this thriller about a psychologist's entanglement in a murder case. (Sept.)
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Signet Book $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-451-14249-8
At 33, burnt-out child psychologist Alex Davenport is persuaded to look into the murder of a psychiatrist that may have been witnessed by a little girl who won't talk about it. The murder trail leads to evidence of a group of child molesters. PW...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Bantam $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05370-8
Kellerman bares a dark, brooding side of his appealing series' detective, child psychologist Alex Delaware ( Over the Edge ), in this complex tale of guilt, greed and expiation. Although his beloved girlfriend Robin has left him, to find herself,...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author Bantam $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05796-6
After a sniper opens fire at an elementary school in an L.A. suburb, LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis calls in his friend, child psychologist Alex Delaware (seen last in Silent Partner ). None of the children is hurt, but the shooter, a young woman named
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Jonathan Kellerman, Ballantine, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-50569-9
When Lt. Milo Sturgis of LAPD homicide asks psychologist Alex Delaware to view the faceless corpse of a young woman in Kellerman's enjoyable if only average 26th Alex Delaware novel (after Deception), Alex is shocked to recognize the gunshot victim...
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Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-50571-2
In Edgar-winner Kellerman’s less than compelling 27th Alex Delaware novel (after 2011’s Mystery), the child psychologist/police consultant and his LAPD homicide detective pal, Lt. Milo Sturgis, look into the possibly ritualistic murder of 56-year-old
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Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-50573-6
Three decades after the debut of Kellerman's psychologist detective, the 28th entry (after 2012's Victims) is a lackluster one and shows the series' age. Newcomers are unlikely to be impressed either by Delaware's psychological or deductive insights.
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Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-50575-0
Dr. Connie Sykes, the owner and operator of a lab that tests for sexually transmitted diseases, shows up at Alex Delaware's office and threatens him in the powerhouse opening of bestseller Kellerman's 29th novel featuring the L.A. psychologist (after
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Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-54137-6
The crafty plot of Edgar-winner Kellerman’s 30th novel featuring L.A. psychologist Alex Delaware (after 2014’s Killer) will even keep genre veterans guessing. Delaware has been trying, without success, to help his homicide lieutenant friend, Milo...
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Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-54531-2
Many readers will struggle to sympathize with Grace Blades, the protagonist of this standalone with an improbable plot from bestseller Kellerman (Motive), after a flashback opening that shows five-year-old Grace living in a trailer park, neglected...
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Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $28.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-54140-6
In the backstory of bestseller Kellerman's unconvincing 31st novel featuring L.A. psychologist and crime-solver Alex Delaware (after 2015's Motive), psychiatrist Lou Sherman asks Alex to meet five-year-old Ovid Chase, whose mother, Zelda Chase, a TV
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Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-345-54143-7
L.A. psychologist Alex Delaware specializes in “evaluating the mental health of injured, neglected, or traumatized children,” but in Edgar-winner Kellerman’s so-so 32nd series entry (after 2016’s Breakdown) he accepts the invitation of 99-year-old...
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Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $28.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-345-54146-8
In bestseller Kellerman’s exceptionally well-plotted 33rd mystery featuring L.A. psychologist Alex Delaware (after 2017’s Heartbreak Hotel), Alex’s close friend on the LAPD, Lt. Milo Sturgis, asks for his help in investigating a gruesome murder....
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Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman. Putnam, $27.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-399-16236-7
Both Kellermans, father (Killer) and son (Potboiler), have written better books than this muddled supernatural thriller, which may disappoint their fans as well as readers fond of paranormal mysteries. In the spring of 2011, a “hard-domed insect”...
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Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman. Putnam, $27.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-399-17173-4
The Kellermans’ uneven sequel to 2014’s The Golem of Hollywood finds Det. Jacob Lev of the LAPD assigned to a clerical job in a remote airplane hangar east of Los Angeles after antagonizing his superiors in his last case. Special Projects, a...
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Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman. Ballantine, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-59460-1
Clay Edison, the hero of this disappointing series launch from bestseller Kellerman and son Jesse (The Golem of Paris), was a promising college basketball player until a devastating injury ended any hopes of a professional sports career. Years later,
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Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman. Ballantine, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-59463-2
In bestseller Kellerman and son Jesse’s plodding sequel to 2017’s Crime Scene, Oakland, Calif., coroner’s deputy Clay Edison responds to a multiple shooting, apparently sparked by a dispute about noise from a large party. The victims include a six-ye
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author, Faye Kellerman, Author . Warner $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-446-53296-9
Those who admire risk, take note: two authors at the top of their game have done something quite new. Those who fear change, take heart: the results are just fine. Faye and Jonathan Kellerman, each with a slew of bestsellers, have collaborated on a...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author, Faye Kellerman, Author . Ballantine $24.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-345-46798-0
The second collaboration by bestsellers Jonathan and Faye Kellerman (after Double Homicide
) offers two thin novellas that dedicated fans will most appreciate. In the first, My Sister's Keeper
, Faye Kellerman's LAPD detective Peter Decker...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author, John Rubinstein, Read by , read by John Rubinstein. Random House Audio $44.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-0723-6
Rubinstein, who has had a long, successful run as the voice of Kellerman's popular hero, Dr. Alex Delaware, has seldom been more appreciated than on this rather mediocre entry in the series. While the doctor and his gruff, gay LAPD detective...
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Jonathan Kellerman, read by John Rubinstein. Random House Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 10.5 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-7393-6908-1
Psychologist Alex Delaware assists his friend, LAPD Det. Lt. Milo Sturgis, in sussing out the identity of a mutilated Jane Doe—a woman that Alex, by coincidence, had noticed the night before when she appeared to be awaiting a date in a hotel lounge.
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author, John Rubinstein, Read by , read by John Rubinstein. Random House Audio $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-0967-4
In this audio adaptation of Kellerman's newest thriller (after The Conspiracy Club
), psychologist Alex Delaware and his partner, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis, tackle a gruesome lover's lane murder. The story is packed with a full...
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author, John Rubinstein, Read by , read by John Rubinstein. Random House Audio $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-0972-8
Although he has done everything from Broadway to film and television, Rubinstein was apparently born to play Dr. Alex Delaware—Kellerman's famously successful clinical psychologist whose cases get darker and more complicated over the years.
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author, Richard Gilliland, Read by Audio Literature $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7871-1877-8
Novelist Kellerman, a child psychologist who often uses the fictional character of Dr. Alex Delaware as his foil, here tackles the hot topic of violent children in a nonfiction format--part of the ongoing Library of Contemporary Thought series....
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Jonathan Kellerman, Author, Jell, Author Bantam Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-05251-0
In his fourth mystery, Kellerman leaves Los Angeles and Alex Delaware, child-psychologist hero of When the Bough Breaks and Blood Test, for the richness of Jerusalem and the subtle complexities of Chief Inspector Daniel Sharavi. The latter is a...
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Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-525-61849-2
At the start of Edgar winner Kellerman’s workmanlike 34th whodunit featuring L.A. psychologist Alex Delaware (after 2018’s Night Moves), a guest at a wedding held at a former strip joint is looking for a bathroom when she stumbles across a female...
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Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-61852-2
Early in bestseller Kellerman’s disappointing 35th whodunit featuring L.A. psychologist Alex Delaware (after 2019’s The Wedding Guest), a professional cleaner who arrives at a house the morning after a big party finds a white stretch limo parked...
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Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-61855-3
In Edgar winner Kellerman’s top-notch 36th Alex Delaware novel (after 2020’s The Museum of Desire), a cold case preoccupies the L.A. consulting psychologist and his friend and colleague, Lt. Milo Sturgis of the LAPD: the death of Dorothy Swoboda,...
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Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-61858-4
The death of a naked man, hit early one morning by a van near the UCLA campus, kicks off bestseller Kellerman's complex 37th Alex Delaware novel (after 2021's Serpentine). Neighborhood gossip and a few blood droplets lead the police to the home of...
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Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-52561861-4
Edgar winner Kellerman’s enjoyable 38th Alex Delaware mystery (after 2022’s City of the Dead) opens at a crime scene: the studio-cum-apartment of photographer Donny Klement, youngest son of elusive multibillionaire Victor Klement. At the time of his
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Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-593-49767-8
Kellerman’s robust latest procedural featuring psychologist Alex Delaware and his best friend, L.A. homicide detective Milo Sturgis (after Unnatural History), couples a deceptively complex central mystery with surprisingly nuanced character...
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Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman. Ballantine, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525620-08-2
In bestseller Kellerman and son Jesse’s middling third mystery featuring deputy coroner Clay Edison (after 2018’s A Measure of Darkness), Edison is called in after a construction project in a Berkeley, Calif., park unearths the remains of an infant.
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Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman. Ballantine, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-62011-2
It’s wildfire season in Northern California, a time of “million-acre fires, killing winds, and weeklong blackouts,” in the Kellermans’ intriguing fourth mystery featuring Clay Edison, Alameda County’s deputy coroner (after 2020’s Half Moon Bay)....
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