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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.” — 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 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, New Mexico, and New York. Klappentext In a half-built mansion in Los Angeles, a watchman stumbles onto the bodies of a young couple-murdered and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace. Veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis is shocked at the sight: a twisted crime that only Milo and psychologist Alex Delaware can hope to solve. While the female victim's identity remains in question, her companion is ID'd as eco-friendly architect Desmond Backer, notorious for his power to seduce women. The deeper Milo and Alex dig for clues, the longer the list of suspects grows. But when the investigation veers suddenly in a startling direction, it's the investigators who may wind up on the wrong end of a cornered predator's final fury. Leseprobe Chapter One I tell the truth. They lie. I'm strong. They're weak. I'm good. They're bad. This was a zero job but Doyle was getting paid. Why anyone would shell out fifteen bucks an hour, three hours a day, five times a week, to check out the empty shell of a rich-idiot monster-house was something he'd never get. The look-see took fifteen minutes. If he walked slow. Rest of the time, Doyle sat around, ate his lunch, listened to Cheap Trick on his Walkman. Thinking about being a real cop if his knee hadn't screwed up. The company said go there, he went. Disability all run out, he swallowed part-time, no benefits. Paying to launder his own uniform. One time he heard a couple of the other guys talking behind his back. Gimp's lucky to get anything. Like it was his fault. His blood level had been .05, which wasn't even close to illegal. That tree had jumped out of nowhere. Gimp made Doyle go all hot in the face and the chest but he kept his mouth shut like he always did. One day . . . He parked the Taurus on the patch of dirt just outside the chainlink, tucked his shirt tighter. Seven a.m., quiet except for the stupid crows squawking. Rich-idiot neighborhood but the sky was a crappy milky gray just like in Burbank where Doyle's apartment was. Nothing moving on Borodi Lane. As usual. The few times Doyle saw anyone it was maids and gardeners. Rich idiots paying to live here but never living here, one monster-mansion after another, blocked by big trees and high gates. No sidewalks, either. What was that all about? Every once in a while, some tucked-tight blonde in Rodeo Drive sweats would come jogging down the middle of the road looking miserable. Never before ten, that type slept late, had breakfast in bed, massages, whatever. Laying around in satin sheets, getting waited on by maids and butlers before building...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jonathan Kellerman
• Editore: Ballantine
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 23.02.2010
• EAN: 9780345495198
• ISBN: 978-0-345-49519-8
• Pagine: 448
• Dimensioni: 105 mm x 190 mm x 26 mm
• Serie: Alex Delaware; Alex Delaware Novels; Alex Delaware
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli > Polizieschi, thriller, spionaggio