Kellerman's own experience in the field makes him well suited to describe a psychologist's work without either dumbing it down or resorting to excessive jargon.Dr. The aftermath of the office confrontation results in murder. Childless, she insisted that her 16-month-old niece be placed in her care, and that the girl's mother, Sykes's own sister, was not a fit parent, but Delaware's assessment proved fatal to her hopes for custody. A judge impressed by Delaware's objectivity and expertise persuaded him to serve on a court-appointed panel to provide evaluations in child-custody cases. In one of the author's better plots, flashbacks chart the events that led to the terrifying encounter. Sykes leaves Delaware unscathed, for the time being. 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. “Kellerman really knows how to keep those pages turning.” -The New York Times Book Reviewĭr. “Jonathan Kellerman has justly earned his reputation as a master of the psychological thriller.” - People “Kellerman kicks this one up to a whole new level.” - RT Book Reviews

will love the well-executed flashbacks to Alex’s professional past.” - Booklist

“As usual, the rapport between Alex and Milo is a show-stealer, and longtime fans. Killer is Kellerman-and Delaware-at their finest. But then the little girl at the center of the vicious dispute disappears and Alex knows he must work with longtime friend Detective Milo Sturgis, braving an obstacle course of Hollywood washouts, gangbangers, and self-serving jurists in order to save an innocent life. Nothing would please Alex more than to be free of the ugly spectacle known as Sykes v. And when the court battle between the Sykes sisters erupts into cold, calculating murder and a rapidly growing number of victims, Alex knows he’s been snared in a toxic web of pathology. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by Connie against her sister and begins to realize that there is much about the siblings he has failed to comprehend. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear.

The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. noir portrayal of the darkest impulses of human nature carried to shocking extremes.

Jonathan Kellerman returns with this stunning thriller-a mesmerizing L.A.

Killer by jonathan kellerman