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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780345452641 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, at nineteen, she still seems older than her years–but her problems go beyond hyper-maturity. Patty Bigelow, Tanya’s aunt and adoptive mother, has made a deathbed confession of murder and urged the young woman to seek Delaware’s help. The doctor recalls Patty as a selfless E.R. nurse struggling to raise a child on her own–a woman seemingly incapable of the “terrible thing” she has admitted. But for Tanya’s peace of mind, Delaware agrees to investigate, and he enlists LAPD detective Milo Sturgis in the search for the phantom victim of a crime that may never have occurred.
Armed with only the vaguest details, psychologist and cop follow a trail twisting from L.A.’s sleaziest low-rent districts to its overblown mansions, retracing Patty and Tanya’s nomadic and increasingly puzzling life to the doorsteps of a sullen heroin addict; a randy real-estate broker; and a brilliant, enigmatic physics student. Suddenly a very real murder tears open a terrifying tunnel into the past, where secrets–and bodies–are buried. As the tension mounts, Delaware and Sturgis uncover a tangled history of desperation, vengeance, and death–a legacy of evil that refuses to die.
Dramatic, action-packed, and filled with the psychological detail that only Jonathan Kellerman can provide, Obsession is a whodunit, a whydunit–and something unique: a did-it-even-happen? This is Kellerman at his heart-racing best.
From the Hardcover edition.
Review:
GONE
“The denouement accelerates to breathtaking, heart-pounding speed.”
–Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Sharply written and well-paced.”
–Entertainment Weekly
RAGE
“[Kellerman is] a master of the grab-the-reader contest . . . The chills start within the first two pages.”
–Saint Paul Pioneer Press
“[An] adrenaline-fueled read.”
–People
TWISTED
“A perfect whodunit–a tale told with gusto . . . a thrilling, engrossing pace from the first page to the last.”
–Orlando Sentinel
“Delivers full measures of suspense, humor, and sleuthing.”
–Los Angeles Times
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780345452641
- Subtitle:
- An Alex Delaware Novel
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Ballantine Books
- Subject:
- Psychological
- Subject:
- Suspense
- Subject:
- Young women
- Subject:
- Police
- Edition Description:
- Paperback
- Series:
- Alex Delaware Novels
- Publication Date:
- February 2008
- Binding:
- Mass Market Paperbound
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 458
- Dimensions:
- 7.52x4.30x1.24 in. .57 lbs.










