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“Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.”Since I found this series in my teens, I’ve re-read a few of them quite a bit. It looks like this one was mainly forgotten, though, so I was able to be glued to the mystery and be semi-surprised at the ending. It’s a promising start with a school shooting and a bizarre villain, but the story unfortunately starts slowing and lagging during the middle. The ending is creative but unrealistic as the odds of these two runni...
This book is part of a series but can be read as a stand alone novel. In this one, Milo is at the scene of a school shooting and asks Alex to come to the scene to help the children. Alex finds himself in more than a school shooting.There were both highlights and low points to this offering in this series. I absolutely loved the beginning as we get to see the affected children after surviving an event like this. I was amazed while reading the beginning how it was still relevant to today's world e...
If you want something to help you go to sleep then read "Time Bomb," which, to put it bluntly, is a real bomb. One word best summarizes it, however, and that is "boring." For one, the story is implausible; two, Alex Delaware comes across as pompous; and, three, Milo Sturgis plays a very small part in the story and Milo is by far Kellerman's best character. In fact, now that I have reconsidered my rating, one star would be more appropriate.
4...Wowzah...I don't usually enjoy novels, which seem like they were taken straight from the headlines, YET this one...Written decades before now...Was eerily similar to TODAY'S headlines...CREEPY!!! No wonder people scream conspiracy about everything! VERY WELL DONE!!
After a failed school shooting, in which no children were killed but the female sniper was, Alex is called in to counsel the traumatized students. The shooter is atypical, with no clear motives as to why she would attempt such a horrible act, until Alex digs deeper. Then a convoluted Neo-Nazi conspiracy is revealed, and Milo helps take out the bad guys. Alex begins to date someone else in this book, Linda whom he meets at the school, and for awhile she is a welcome change from Robin.
(Finally! I finished it!I'ts been a long week, and I would've finished "Time Bomb" a lot sooner, but an ongoing family emergency came up. See, who said staying up all night- reading, of course- is not healthy, eh?) "...why, if there was a God, He could let those things happen. Why did terrible things happen to good people? Why couldn’t people be kind to one another? Why were people always betraying one another—brutalizing one another?" A sniper opens fire on a school, seemingly trying to kill
Time Bomb is a novel written by psychologist and award-winning author Jonathan Kellerman. It is the fifth installment in the Alex Delaware series.Forensic and child psychologist Alex Delaware is called in by his friend, detective Milo Sturgis, to a crime scene where a young woman planned on assassinating children in a California schoolyard. The sniper, however, was gunned down before she could do any harm and Alex’s mission is now to help the children cope with the trauma. In order to do that, h...
Time Bomb by Jonathan Kellerman is the 5th book in the Alex Delaware Mystery series. Psychologist Alex Delaware is called in after a school shooting. A rather complex book with a lot of political and racial overtones. I found that it seemed to drag a bit with all the complexities but was still interesting although rather long. The narcisistic father of the sniper also seemed a bit overdone.
Fifth in the Alex Delaware psychological thriller series and revolving around a semi-retired child psychologist.My TakeIt's all about exploitation and corruption. Using the kids to further their own political agendas. People promoted for who they know and what they know that may be destructive to another. The lack of consideration or care from public officials and law enforcement. It's disgusting and fascinating. Disgusting for what these politicians and quacks will do to make a buck, to further...
Unabridged audio from Penguin 2014 thru OverDriveUnabridged ebook from Random House 2003 thru OverDriveThe audio book was missing 5-10%. Liberal lexicon and math if that is 'unabridged'I came to this series having seen the 1986 TV movie "When the bough breaks" when first shown.It was an excellent movie with Ted Danson as Alex and Richard Masur as Milo.I wasn't disappointed with the first two books then the newness wore off and the irritation began.Goodreads genre omits that his work is: fashion
Child psychologist Jonathan Kellerman writes complex murder mysteries featuring his alter ego, Alex Delaware. There are 32 such novels to date. Time Bomb, published in 1990, was the fifth in the series—and the first I found disappointing.The set-up in Time Bomb is much like that of the earlier entries: to help children after a school shooting, Alex finds himself drawn further and further into a murder mystery. That seemingly straightforward mystery quickly morphs into a complex case that heads o...
Another real good Alex Delaware book, some kids, some killin, some figuring it out.
I couldn't choose between 3 and 4 stars so let's say 3.5. I enjoyed it. I do feel like this book went off on tangents but it also went in a direction I wasn't expecting and I love to be taken by surprise. This is also the first book in the series, I think, where the child psychologist is actually brought in to work with children. It wasn't about a missing child or a story that starts with a child and then ends up being just about adults. I don't mind the adult drama by any means. I just used to
