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Read by John Rubinstein Five CDs / approx. 5 hours Alex Delaware is back! With a riveting and devilishly ingenious story about an asylum inmate who seems able to predict grisly slayings in the outside world. How can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up in a supposedly secure institution for homicidal madmen predict brutal murders in the outside world? The is the enigma that Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis must penetrate in order to stop these horrific killings. First, a marginal actor is found dead in a car trunk, sawn in half. Months later, a psychologist at Starkweather Hospital for the Criminally Insane is discovered murdered and mutiliated in a tantalizingly similar way. Dr. Claire Argent has been working caringly with Ardis Peake, a mental patient locked up for decades after he annihilated his mother and the ranching family that rescued him from homelessness. When reports of Peake's incoherent ramblings began to make frightening sense as predictions of yet more murders, Delaware and Sturgis are drawn into a web of family secrets, vengeance, and manipulation--inside Starkweather and on the streets of L.A., where death, drugs, and sex are marketed as commodities. The climactic discovery they make as they race to save new victims gives fresh and terrifying meaning to the concept of monstrosity.Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-100375408002
ISBN-139780375408007
eBay Product ID (ePID)1783841
Product Key Features
Publication Year1999
TopicGeneral, Mystery & Detective / General
Book TitleMonster
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorJonathan Kellerman
Book SeriesAlex Delaware Ser.
FormatCompact Disc
Dimensions
Item Height1in.
Item Length5.7in.
Item Weight7.9 Oz
Item Width4.9in.
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"[A] SURPRISING AND COMPLEX STORY OF EVIL . . . STUNNINGLY DRAMATIC." -People(Page-turner of the Week) "UNSETTLING AND THRILLING . . . RIGHT FROM THE START OFMONSTER, JONATHAN KELLERMAN DOES EVERYTHING RIGHT." -TheBaltimore Sun "KELLERMAN DELIVERS . . . GET READY TO SLEEP WITH THE LIGHTS ON. . . . GET READY TO BE HORRIFIED . . . AND PERVERSELY INTRIGUED." -Rocky Mountain News "Jonathan Kellerman has justly earned his reputation as a master of the psychological thriller." -People "Riveting . . . Kellerman's latest shiver-producing, hair-raising, shocking, suspenseful thriller [is] definitely his best yet. . . . The tension is palpable, the plot filled with devilish convolutions, and the sense of impending danger heart-stoppingly tense. . . . Dr. Alex Delaware is at his brilliantly analytical zenith." -Booklist(starred and boxed review) Kellerman "has shaped the psychological mystery novel into an art form." -Los Angeles Times Book Review "Often, mystery writers can either plot like devils or create believable characters. Kellerman stands out because he can do both. Masterfully." -USA Today "Kellerman doesn't just write psychological thrillers-he owns the genre." -Detroit Free Press "In top form in his latest mystery featuring L.A. forensic psychologist Alex Delaware, Kellerman devises a deviously twisted, contemporary tale that draws pulsing suspense from the ageless relationship between madness and evil. . . . A tense climax in the hills above L.A. brings together all the tautly woven threads as Kellerman delivers another chilling look into the dark corners of the human psyche." -Publishers Weekly(starred review) "Nobody evokes Los Angeles better than Kellerman." -Los Angeles Times "Monster, a furiously paced mind-bender, contains enough mystery to hold readers spellbound." -BookPage "Kellerman is an ace at spinning a story that holds the reader's interest, plausible but unpredictable until the final page." -The Denver Post "Recommended . . . Intelligent, well-drawn characters and the kind of plot twists that make the best mysteries fun to read." -Library Journal From the Paperback edition.
Series Volume NumberNumber 13
Dewey Decimal813.5/4
Edition DescriptionAbridged Edition
