Monster
a novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
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"How can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up in a supposedly secure institution for homicidal madmen predict brutal murders in the outside world? Delaware and his friend and partner Detective Milo Sturgis must penetrate this enigma in order to stop the horrific killings.".
"A marginal actor is found dead in a car trunk, sawn in half. Months later, a psychologist at a hospital for the criminally insane is discovered murdered and mutilated in a similar way. When reports of an inmate's incoherent ramblings begin to make frightening sense as predictions of yet more slayings, Delaware and Sturgis are drawn into web of family secrets, vengeance, and manipulation - both inside the asylum and on the streets of L.A., where death, drugs, and sex are marketed as commodities.
The climactic discovery they make as they race to prevent more killings gives fresh and terrifying meaning to the concept of monstrosity."--BOOK JACKET.
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Jonathan Kellerman, Alex Delaware, Series, #13, Fiction, Literature, Novel, Hardcover, Paperback, e-book, Police, Detective, Crime, Serial, Murder, Forecaster, Forecasting, Mystery, Psychologists, Psychopaths, Psychological, Thriller, Suspense, Violent, Offenders, Dangerously, Mentally ill, Detectives, Serial murderers, Serial murder investigation, Milo Sturgis (Fictitious character), Serial murders, Alex Delaware (Fictitious character), Mentally ill offenders, Large type books, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, psychological, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Delaware, alex (fictitious character), fiction, Sturgis, milo (fictitious character), fictionTimes
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Monster
December 7, 2000, Time Warner Paperbacks
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0751530166 9780751530162
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A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk. Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent ramblings of an inmate at the presumably secure institution begin to make chilling sense--they are, in fact, horrifying predictions.
Yet how can a barely functional psychotic locked behind asylum walls possibly know such vivid details of crimes committed in the outside world?
Drawn into a labyrinth of secrets, revenge, sex, and manipulation, Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis set out to unlock this enigma and put an end to the brutal killings--before the madman predicts their own demise. . . .--Bk Cvr
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