Flesh and Blood: An Alex Delaware Novel
Written by Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by John Rubinstein
3.5/5
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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 of the inevitable failures of a challenging profession. But years later, when Alex encounters Lauren as a stag party's featured entertainment, both doctor and patient are sticken with shame. And the ultimate horror takes place when, soon after, Lauren's brutalized corpse is found dumped in an alley. Alex disregards the advice of his trusted friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, and jeopardizes his relationship with longtime lover, Robin Castagna, in order to pursue Lauren's murderer. As he investigates his young patient's troubled past, Alex enters the shadowy worlds of fringe psychological experimentation and the sex industry, and then into mortal danger when lust and big money collide in Southern California.
Jonathan Kellerman's L.A. is evil, seductive, and unforgiving, and Flesh and Blood is mind-opening in its drama of a driven man's personal quest, breathtaking in its ingenious plot, filled with unforgettable characters, and topped off by a terrifying climax. This is suspense fiction at its finest.
From the Hardcover edition.
Jonathan Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty bestselling crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The Butcher’s Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, and True Detectives. With his wife, bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman, he coauthored Double Homicide and Capital Crimes. He is also the author of two children’s books and numerous nonfiction works, including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children and With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars. He has won the Goldwyn, Edgar, and Anthony awards and has been nominated for a Shamus Award.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Flesh and Blood isn't an outstanding novel, but it is a decent novel.It has all the elements of a good murder mystery/'who dunnit' without any of the gaping plot holes that some other novels of late have included.Essentially a young woman turns up dead whose past is less than innocent involving prostitution & stripping. As the story develops a number of possible motives emerge along with a number of possible suspects, none quiet fitting the bill. Then the second half of the story frames the underlying plot developments, a few more bodies emerge and the story hones in on those responsible in a climatic main plot ending, after which the novel continues a little to resolve all of the secondary plots.Enjoyable read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Really Loved This Kellerman Book! Some of them I can get right into...others I can't! This one and a couple of his others were GREAT~!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Flesh and Blood has all of the elements required for a good murder mystery, mostly believable characters, a number of suspects emerge and fade, until the real baddie appears with powerful motives and the bodies begin to pile up. The essential twist in the tail comes not with the revelation of the murderer but with the consequent rehabilitation of previous suspects and surprising bloodline connections. The plot veers between seedy low life and seedy high life with the occasional unlikely segue but that can be forgiven as I found this to be an enjoyable, well structured and nicely paced thriller.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The ending was obvious from the beginning. A little good psychology and detection. But mostly it was the turgid theorizing between Milo and Alex that made this book much too long.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another great book, very engrossing, the title is more meaningful once you finish the book.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I was not impressed by this book at all. The story did not flow and left me a bit puzzled at times.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Although the plot of this potboiler is preposterous at points, I'm finding Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware series disarmingly fun to read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I don't normally read this genre but I am attracted to the color yellow and had just completed the entire Baroque Cycle + a re-read of Cryptonomicon .. plowed through this one in three easy days, and thoroughly enjoyed it .. think I'read another
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jonathon Kellerman has been my favorite mystery author for years. The characters, the plot twists, the vivid descriptions, . . . he does it all.And in this one, there's also some tension in the backstory involving his relationship with the enticing Robin.