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Zusatztext “Jonathan Kellerman’s novels are an obsession; once started it is hard to quit.”— Orlando Sentinel    “Kellerman really knows how to keep those pages turning.” — The New York Times Book Review   “Kellerman doesn’t just write psychological thrillers—he owns the genre.”— Detroit Free Press Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Kellerman is one of the world’s most popular authors. He has brought his expertise as a clinical psychologist to more than thirty bestselling crime novels! including the Alex Delaware series! The Butcher’s Theater! Billy Straight! The Conspiracy Club! Twisted! and True Detectives. With his wife! the novelist Faye Kellerman! he co-authored the bestsellers Double Homicide and Capital Crimes. He is the author of numerous essays! short stories! scientific articles! two children’s books! and three volumes of psychology! including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children ! as well as the lavishly illustrated 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! New Mexico! and New York. Their four children include the novelists Jesse Kellerman and Aliza Kellerman. Klappentext The closing of the grand old Fauborg Hotel in Beverly Hills is a sad occasion for longtime patrons Alex Delaware and Robin Castagna! who go there one last time for cocktails. But even more poignant--and curious--is a striking young woman in elegant attire and dark glasses! alone there and waiting in vain. Two days later! police detective Milo Sturgis comes seeking his psychologist comrade's insights about a grisly homicide. To Alex's shock! the brutalized victim is the same beautiful woman whose lonely hours sipping champagne at the Fauborg may have been her last. But when a sordid revelation finally cracks the case open! the secrets that spill out could make Alex and Milo's best efforts to close this crime not just impossible but fatal. CHAPTER 1 Like a con man on the run, L.A. buries its past. Maybe that's why no one argued when the sentence came down: The Fauborg had to die. I live in a company town where the product is illusion. In the alternate universe ruled by sociopaths who make movies, communication means snappy dialogue, the scalpel trumps genetics, and permanence is mortal sin because it slows down the shoot. L.A. used to have more Victorian mansions than San Francisco but L.A. called in the wrecking ball and all that handwork gave way to thirties bungalows that yielded to fifties dingbats, which were vanquished, in turn, by big-box adult dormitories with walls a toddler can put a fist through. Preservationists try to stem the erosion but end up fighting for the likes of gas stations and ticky-tack motels. Money changes hands, zoning laws are finessed, and masterpieces like the Ambassador Hotel dissolve like wrinkles shot with Botox. The Fauborg Hotel was no Ambassador but it did have its charm. Four somber stories of Colonial brick-face, it sat on a quiet block of Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills, wedged between a retirement home and a dry cleaner. A short walk but a psychic universe from the Eurotrash cafés of Canon Drive and the shopping frenzy on Beverly and Rodeo, the Fauborg appeared in few guidebooks but managed to boast one of the highest occupancy rates in the city. Built in 1949 by a French Holocaust survivor, its design aped the mansions in the American movies that had transfixed Marcel Jabotinsky as a teenager. Jabotinksy's first guests were other postwar émigrés seeking peace and quiet. That same desire for low-key serenity continued with the hotel's clientele, divided between the genteel grandparents of Eurotrash and the odd knowledgeable American willing to trade glitz and edgy and ironic for a d...

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"Jonathan Kellerman's novels are an obsession; once started it is hard to quit." - Orlando Sentinel

"Kellerman really knows how to keep those pages turning." - The New York Times Book Review

"Kellerman doesn't just write psychological thrillers - he owns the genre." - Detroit Free Press

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Kellerman, John Rubinstein
• Assisted by: John Rubinstein (Reader / Narrator)
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 29.02.2012
• EAN: 9780307969507
• ISBN: 978-0-307-96950-7
• Series: Random House Audio; Random House Audiobooks; Alex Delaware; Alex Delaware; Random House Audio
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense