BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's Victims.
In a half-built mansion in Los Angeles, a watchman stumbles onto the bodies of a young couplemurdered and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace. Veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis is shocked at the sight: a twisted crime that only Milo and psychologist Alex Delaware can hope to solve. While the female victims identity remains in question, her companion is IDd as eco-friendly architect Desmond Backer, notorious for his power to seduce women. The deeper Milo and Alex dig for clues, the longer the list of suspects grows. But when the investigation veers suddenly in a startling direction, its the investigators who may wind up on the wrong end of a cornered predators final fury.
From Publishers Weekly
L.A. police lieutenant Milo Sturgis investigates a double homicide at the site of an unfinished, obscenely large mansion in bestseller Kellerman's nerve-tingling 24th Alex Delaware novel (after Bones). Construction halted on the house two years earlier, and ownership can be traced only to a defunct holding company in Washington, D.C. The male victim is easily identifiedDesmond Backer, who worked for an odd little architectural firmbut the female victim's identity isn't immediately apparent. Alex serves as a sounding board while Milo pursues assorted rumors and false leads: the site owners are Arabs, Asians, Muslims; the killings were vengeance; the victims were eco-terrorists; the deaths are linked to the disappearance of a Swedish or Swiss woman years before. Without magic, just steady, inspired police work, including horse-trading with the FBI and skillful interrogations, Milo uncovers the unsavory truth. (Oct.)
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Review
Jonathan Kellermans novels are an obsession; once started it is hard to quit.Orlando Sentinel
Kellerman really knows how to keep those pages turning.New York Times Book Review
Kellerman doesnt just write psychological thrillershe owns the genre.Detroit Free Press
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