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City of the Dead by Jonathan Kellerman brings more than just murder and suspense to the 37th book in the Alex Delaware series. It combines a police procedural with psychology to bring additional insights into the story and people. The books are also tend to be cerebral in nature.Los Angeles Police Lieutenant Milo Sturgis and psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware team up again when Milo is called to the scene of young naked man hit by a van. But a blood trail leads to a nearby home where a woman has
The Alex Delaware series began in 1985 with the publication of When the Bough Breaks, and it’s been going strong ever since. City of the Dead is number 37, and in many ways, its style is closer to the original than more recent editions, and I consider this a good thing. My thanks go to Net Galley and Random House Ballantine for the review copy. This book is available for purchase today. The story begins with a moving van, and two drivers looking to beat that nasty Los Angeles traffic by starting...
To beat L.A. traffic, two movers get up very early and are driving the van through a quiet residential neighborhood when they hit something. Instead of an animal, it's a naked man, who cannot be identified. Canvassing the neighborhood, Lt. Milo Sturgis's teammate Moe Reed finds some blood droplets, leading to a second body. When Alex Delaware joins him at the scene, he recognizes the attractive blond woman as a charlatan, who tried passing herself off as a psychologist in a divorce/child custody...
Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware are paired up again in the 37th book in the series. They make a great investigative team and I have read several in this series. This one starts off with two men driving a moving truck early in the morning hit and kill a pedestrian. The victim was a young man, naked and unrecognizable. The conscientious moving guys called the police and this seemed a simple accident. Except there's something else - blood is found nearby. Does it belong to the...
Los Angeles, a city many are drawn to for the light, action, and celebrities. The home of psychologist Alex Delaware and his best friend, Homicide Lt. Detective Milo Sturgis, a home in which they encounter the worst that life can bring. And on this sunny morning, on a pretty street with nice houses, a naked man lies dead in the middle of the street, while a young woman is butchered in the house beyond. Just another day in paradise for these two friends, with a case that strings many different pe...
This is the 37th book in the series and I have read all of them. Obviously, I enjoy the investigative duo of Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware, as well as all the supporting characters and look forward to each new addition. Whenever I crack open a Kellerman book, I can’t seem to put it down. Kellerman writes true police procedurals, albeit a little different due to Milo being unconventional and Alex along to provide psychological insight. True, they do tend to be a bit formul...
City of the Dead is the 37th book in Kellerman’s long-running police procedural series set in Modern Los Angeles and featuring as its main character a court-consulting child psychologist Alex Delaware who often rides along with Homicide Detective Milo Sturgis. Despite the plethora of corpses starting with naked man running into the moving van, this is not a shoot-em-up, action-packed book. It has a more realistic feel to it as Delaware goes through the humdrum aspects of being on top of a homici...
I have enjoyed the book series and the characters over the years, but this last one was disappointing. Milo always has to be too gross for words, Alex too perfect and too handsome, and Robin too pretty and too what? We never learn much about her; don't she and Alex ever have conflicts, or is their relationship perfect too? In terms of plot, I see no psychological input really from Alex except for being part of a contrived solution that is much too much of a coincidence to be believable. Even the...
After 37 books in a series kudos to the author who is able to keep his characters interesting and fresh.Having read all in the series there are some that did not live up to Kellerman’s usual high quality, but in this one he is top of his game. Even the twist is a bit different from previous books in the series.Alex and Milo are investigating a double homicide that was kind of weird to begin with and it’s going nowhere, in fact they hit a brick wall – no viable leads.I wondered why the author was...