Flesh and Blood (Alex Delaware Novels (Audio))

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Summary: WHAT????
Review: I was so disappointed in this book. I found it very hard to believe that Jonathan Kellerman actually wrote this book. I found it downright corny the way Alex Delaware was playing ace detective and kept just happening to be at the right place at the right time. The book seemed to have no "story" to it, as his always do. I got very bored reading one and a half pages of descriptions of what people were wearing, how their hair looked and on and on. I always enjoyed Kellerman's breif descriptions of people and places, but once again, this became downright corny. I'm glad this was not my first Kellerman book, as I probably wouldn't try another one. I'm a dedicated reader of his and hope that this was just a fluke. Everyone's entitled to one bad book. Hope that was his first and last.

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Summary: An enjoyable, fast -paced who-done-it!
Review: It's been a long time since I read a Jonathan Kellerman novel but it certainly does not seem like he's lost his edge! This was a fast-paced , hard-to-put down mystery and I had fun reading it.

This is another story about Alex Delaware, the child psychologist turned criminal investigator, his long-time girlfriend Robin and his friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis. This time Alex is dealing with a blast from his past when a patient, Lauren Teague, who he treated 2-3 times many years before turns up in a dumpster after being murdered. Her involvement in prostitution and stripping thickens the plot and leads Alex and the reader to some fascinating conclusions.

This book kept me guessing until the end and has re-awakened me to Jonathan Kellerman's writing.

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Summary: His Best Since "Self-Defense"....
Review: The Alex Delaware of old is back in Kellerman's new novel. The last four in the series have been very disappointing to many of his long time fans, and Kellerman goes back to basics with this tale of a disappearance/murder that personally affects the good doc, since it happened to a former patient that he was never able to reach.

In the novel, the old obsessive compulsive Alex Delaware surfaces again. He takes the crime personally, and continues to follow up some blind alleys, driving both Milo and Robin crazy with his inability to let it go. His instincts are basically good, however, and you second guess the multitude of possible outcomes all the way through the book's end.

It feels as though Kellerman has decided to ground the doctor in the type of cases and well-intentioned investigations he crafted for Delaware in the early books of the series. It is good to have the real Alex back, and to have Kellerman fully flesh out a story, unlike the botched and tedious plots of "Monster" and "The Web".

With this book, Kellerman wins back a fan!