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Veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles as they investigate the gruesome death of a young couple-murdered in flagrante--the man identified as a notorious womanizer and eco-friendly architect, the woman unidentified--in this unforgettable tale spiced with eco-terrorism, arson, blackmail, conspiracy, and a vendetta that runs deep.

Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and his friend, homicide detecive Milo Sturgis, push the law to the limit in their attempts to find five-year-old Woody Swope, a cancer-stricken child whose parents refuse to agree to the one treatment that could save his life.

Lauren Teague is a beautiful, defiant, borderline delinquent teenager when her parents bring her to Alex Delaware's office. But for all Alex's skill and effort, Lauren resists angrily, provocatively. Reluctantly, the psychologist chalks Lauren up as one fo the inevitable failures of a challenging profession. But years later, when Alex comes face-to-face with Lauren in a shocking encounter, both doctor and patient are stricken with shame. And then...

"Behind the yellow crime-scene tape, a brutal tableau awaits. On a lonely lover's Lane in the hills of Los Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each victim bears a single gunshot wound to the head. Though the female remains unidentified, her male companion has a name Gavin Quick -- and a troubled past that had landed him on a therapist's couch. It's there, on familiar turf, that psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware hopes to find vital clues....

In the half-built skeleton of a monstrously vulgar mansion in one of L.A.ś toniest neighborhoods, a watchman stumbles on the bodies of a young coupleḿurdered in flagrante and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace. Though heś cracked some of the cityś worst slayings, veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis is still shocked at the grisly sight: a twisted crime that only Miloś killer instinctsánd psychologist Alex Delawareś keen insightsćan hope to...

Delaware is called in (via Homicide pal Milo Sturgis) to consult on a string of bizarre murders of fringe artists on the verge of stardom.

In the 24th installment of Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware series, sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis investigate a lovers' midnight romp in a construction site gone wrong. A man and a woman have been murdered, bludgeoned to death during their intimate act; and as Delaware and Sturgis dig deeper into the case, they find themselves in the midst of high society's secretive world of deception and debauchery.

Delaware and Sturgis are drawn into a 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 the race to prevent more killings gives fresh and terrifying meaning to the concept of monstrosity.

"Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis struggle to make sense of a seemingly inexplicable massacre in this electrifying psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis has solved a lot of murder cases. On many of them--the ones he calls "different"--he taps the brain of brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. But neither Alex nor Milo are prepared for what they find on...