Jonathan Kellerman

A child psychologist investigates a case of child sexual abuse

Not since Jack the Ripper terrorized the London slums has there been such a gruesome crime scene. By all accounts, acid-tongued Vita Berlin hadn't a friend in the world, but whom did she cross so badly as to end up arranged in such a grotesque tableau? One look at her apartment-turned-charnel house prompts hard-bitten LAPD detective Milo Sturgis to summon his go-to expert in hunting homicidal maniacs, Alex Delaware. But despite his finely honed skills,...

Psychologist Alex Delaware finds himself caught in one of the most menacing cases of his career when he begins an investigation of the killing of a slightly retarded fifteen-year-old girl, and uncovers a murderous conspiracy.

Twelve-year-old Billy Straight, a street kid who has fled a life of abuse and chaos at home, is forced to run for his life when he witnesses the vicious murder of a woman who turns out to be the ex-wife of a television celebrity.

Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex enlists the keep of detective Milo Sturgis to uncover the disappearance of an emotionally crippled woman in the old -money section of Los Angeles.

A former star athlete turned coroner's investigator is drawn into a brutal, complicated murder.

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.

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.

A Delaware psychologist's attempts to trace the origins of a former patient's breakdown place him at the hub of the investigation into a string of vicious serial murders.