The Web - An Alex Delaware Novel

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Kellerman  is the #1  New York Times  bestselling author of more than three dozen bestselling crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series,  The Butcher’s Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club,   Twisted,  and  True Detectives . With his wife, bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman, he co-authored  Double Homicide  and  Capital Crimes . With his son, bestselling novelist Jesse Kellerman, he co-authored the first book of a new series,  The Golem of Hollywood . He is also the author of two children’s books and numerous nonfiction works, including  Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children  and  With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars . He has won the Goldwyn, Edgar, and Anthony awards and has been nominated for a Shamus Award. Jonathan and Faye Kellerman live in California and New Mexico. Klappentext Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware finds terror in the heart of paradise in this relentlessly sinister novel by America's premier writer of psychological suspense. Three months in paradise, all expenses paid. It's an invitation Alex Delaware can't refuse. Dr. Woodrow Wilson Moreland, a revered scientist and philanthropist on the tiny Pacific island of Aruk, has invited Alex to his home to help him organize his papers for publication--a light workload leaving Alex plenty of time to enjoy a romantic interlude with Robin Castagna. Quickly, however, secretive houseguests, frightening nocturnal visitors, and the elusive Dr. Moreland himself dim the pleasures of deep blue water and white sand. The cases Moreland chooses to share--a patient driven to madness by a cruel, unspeakable act; a man who succumbed forty years ago to radiation poisoning after a nuclear blast; a young woman, brutally murdered, whose mutilated body was found on the beach just six months before--seem unconnected. And yet Alex can't help wondering what the good doctor is trying to tell him... and what Moreland's real reason for inviting him to Aruk is. As Alex probes--with a little long-distance help from his friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis--he comes to believe the answer lies hidden somewhere on Moreland's vast estate. Yet when he finally discovers the truth, the revelation will be more shocking than he could have imagined. And it will come too late to stem the tide of violence that threatens guilty and innocent alike on the lovely lost island of Aruk. With his brilliant characterizations and rapid-fire pace, Jonathan Kellerman has redefined the boundaries of suspense, probing real-life horrors and innermost fears in a novel that transfixes from first page to last. Leseprobe He led us past the first two rows and stopped at the third.  "Some sort of classification system would have been clever, but I know where everyone is and I'm the one who feeds them." Turning left, he stopped at a dark tank.  Inside was a floor of mulch and leaves, above it a tangle of bare branches.  Nothing else that I could see. He pulled something out of his pocket and held it between his fingers.  A pellet, not unlike Spike's kibble. The wire lid was clamped; he loosened it and pushed, exposing a comer. Inserting two fingers, he dangled the pellet. At first, nothing happened.  Then, quicker than I believed possible, the mulch heaved, as if in the grip of a tiny earthquake, and something shot up. A second later, the food was gone. Robin pressed herself against me. Moreland hadn't moved.  Whatever had taken the pellet had disappeared. "Australian garden wolf," said Moreland, securing the top.  "Cousin of your Italian friend.  Like tarantula, they burrow and wait." "Looks as if you know what it likes," said Robin.  I heard the difference in her voice, but a stranger might not have. "What she likes--this one's quite the lady--is animal prot...

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Kellerman
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2011
• EAN: 9780345530868
• ISBN: 978-0-345-53086-8
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 191 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Alex Delaware; Alex Delaware Novels; Alex Delaware; Random House Publishing Group
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense