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A woman's body is found in marshland outside LA. By the next morning the police have discovered the decaying corpses of three more women. They were all prostitutes except for the most recent victim; a classically trained pianist employed by a wealthy family, Selena Bass seems out of place in the grim tableau. Psychologist Alex Delaware is drafted in by homicide detective Milo Sturgis to help with the case. Details of the crimes suggest a serial killer is prowling LA's gritty streets.

A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. The ultimate whodunits, these crimes demand the attention of LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his collaborator on the crime beat, psychologist Alex Delaware.

In the half-built skeleton of a monstrously vulgar mansion in one of L.A.’s toniest neighborhoods, a watchman stumbles on the bodies of a young couple–murdered in flagrante and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace. Though he’s cracked some of the city’s worst slayings, veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis is still shocked at the grisly sight: a twisted crime that only Milo’s killer instincts–and psychologist Alex Delaware’s keen insights–can hope to solve.

From two number-one New York Times best-selling masters of crime fiction comes an extraordinary thriller about family, murder, and the secrets that refuse to stay buried. It's been over a year since LAPD detective Jacob Lev learned the remarkable truth about his family, and he's not coping well. He's back to drinking, he's not talking to his father, the LAPD Special Projects department continues to shadow him, and the memory of a woman named Mai haunts him day and night.

The best-selling author of When The Bough Breaks, Blood Test, and Over The Edge delivers the most stunning novel yet, featuring psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware. At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist, Alex encounters a face from his own past - Sharon Ransom, an exquisite, alluring lover who left him abruptly more than a decade earlier. Sharon now hints that she desperately needs help, but Alex evades her. The next day she is dead, an apparent suicide.

Børnepsykologen Alex Delaware bliver endnu engang bedt om at hjælpe politiet i deres jagt på en forskruet seriemorder, der hærger Los Angeles' gader. Efterforskningen fører Delaware og efterforskeren Sturgis til et fængsel for psykisk syge kriminelle. Seriemorderen, der stadig terroriserer byen, myrder efter et mønster, der minder om en af de indsattes fremgangsmåde i de forbrydelser, han sidder i fængsel for.

Lauren Teague är en utmanande och stökig tonårsflicka vars föräldrar tar kontakt med psykologen Alex Delaware för att söka hjälp åt sin dotter. Flera år senare korsas deras vägar igen, då Lauren uppträder som strippa på en svensexa där Alex Delaware är med. En kort tid därpå hittas Laurens döda kropp på en bakgata - hon har blivit hänsynslöst avrättad med flera pistolskott. Det visar sig att Lauren har försörjt sig som prostituerad för att få råd med universitetsstudierna i psykologi.

Den radikala professorn Hope Devane hittas brutalt knivmördad utanför sitt hem. Hon var en stridbar debattör i feministiska frågor och författare till en bästsäljande bok där hon tydligt uttryckte sitt förakt för män. Polisen hittar inga som helst ledtrådar och efter några månaders resultatlöst arbete kontaktar man psykologen Alex Delaware för hjälp. Det visar sig snart att Hope var en kvinna med en hel del hemligheter, både privat och yrkesmässigt.

Psykologen Alex Delaware har åkt på en kombinerad arbets- och semesterresa till en paradisisk ö i Stilla havet, tillsammans med sin flickvän. Men deras idylliska tillvaro avbryts plötslig av mystiska nattliga besökare och oförklarliga händelser. Snart är de indragna i en virvelstorm av våld, mord och vansinne. Och när Delaware till slut upptäcker sanningen är den mer chockartad än han kunnat föreställa sig. En briljant sammansatt thriller om förflutna tragedier och begravda hemligheter.

Doktor Alex Delaware tar egentligen inte emot några nya patienter, men den unga Lucy Lowell är ett undantag. Efter att ha suttit i juryn vid den uppmärksammade rättegången mot en seriemördare har hon drabbats av en återkommande mardröm: ett ensamt barn som mitt i natten, ute i skogen, bevittnar ett fruktansvärt brott. Är det kanske minnen från hennes egen barndom som sakta börjar komma upp till ytan? Minnen av ett tidigare mord... En rafflande psykologisk spänningsroman där dåtid och nutid vävs samman på ett ödesmättat sätt.

Barnpsykologen Alex Delaware mottar ett kassettband där någon har spelat in ett skrik och en barnröst som entonigt rabblar orden "ond kärlek, ond kärlek. Ge mig inte ond kärlek!" När hans kollega Milo Sturgis får höra det kopplar han det genast ihop det med mordet på en socialarbetare, där gärningsmannen - en psykiskt sjuk uteliggare - skrikit exakt samma ord. Tillsammans nystar de upp en fruktansvärd historia om barnmisshandel, hat och hämnd. En skakande berättelse om hur det "goda" kan slå över i sin motsats, och hur offer plötsligt förvandlas till förövare.

La Città degli Angeli ha la sua buona dose di psicopatici, e nessuno lo sa meglio del dottor Alex Delaware, il brillante psicologo che collabora con la polizia. Constance Sykes, un noto fisico piuttosto eccentrico, è la tipica donna che Alex Delaware sa di dover temere. Rimasto invischiato in una strana causa per la custodia di una bambina, intentata dalla scienziata contro la sorella, scoprirà che i rapporti tra fratelli sono più foschi e insondabili di quanto credeva.

Efter en snigskytte har skudt løs i en skolegård, bliver børnepsykologen Alex Delaware tilkaldt af politiet for at yde krisehjaelp til de rystede skolebørn. Da gerningskvinden selv er blevet skudt, finder politiet hurtigt frem til, at der er tale om en tidligere elev ved navn Holly Burden. Det lader til, at den unge, retarderede pige har vaeret under indflydelse af både nynazister og venstrefløjsterrorister.

They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher's theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage, a faceless killer performs his violent specialty: The first to die brutally is a fifteen-year-old girl. She is drained of blood, then carefully bathed and shrouded in white. Precisely one week later, a second victim is found.

In Jonathan Kellerman’s gripping novels, the city of Los Angeles is as much a living, breathing character as the heroes and villains who roam its labyrinthine streets. Sunny on the surface but shadowy beneath, this world of privilege and pleasure has a dark core and a dangerous edge. In True Detectives, Kellerman skillfully brings his renowned gifts for breathless suspense and sharp psychological insight to a tale that resonates on every level and satisfies at every turn.

When his brief, passionate romance with nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, Dr. Jeremy Carrier is left emotionally devastated, haunted by his lover's grisly demise and warily eyed by police still seeking a prime suspect in the unsolved slaying. To escape the pain, he buries himself in his work as staff psychologist at City Central Hospital, only to be drawn deeper into a waking nightmare when more women turn up murdered in the same gruesome fashion as Jocelyn Banks.

Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has helped psychologist Alex Delaware crack tough cases in the past. And in Jonathan Kellerman's New York Times best seller Billy Straight, she took the lead in the desperate hunt for a teenage runaway stalked by a vengeful murderer. Now the complex and wryly compassionate Petra is once again at the center of the action, in a novel of cunning twists and page-turning suspense.

It is a case unlike any psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware has ever encountered. Five-year-old Woody Swope is ill, but the real problem is his parents. They refuse to agree to the one treatment that could save this boy's life. Alex sets out to convince Mr. and Mrs. Swope - only to find that the parents have left the hospital and taken their son with them. Worse, the sleazy motel room where the Swopes were staying is empty - except for the ominous bloodstain. The Swopes and their son have vanished into the sordid shadows of the city.

Few know the city of Los Angeles the way #1 bestselling author and acclaimed suspense master Jonathan Kellerman does. His thrilling novels of psychological drama and criminal detection make the capital of dreams a living, breathing character in all its glamour and infamy. That storied history of fame, seduction, scandal, and murder looms large in Mystery, as Alex Delaware finds himself drawn into a twisting, shadowy whodunit that’s pure L.A. noir—and vintage Kellerman.

When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. Driving through the dream-lit San Fernando Valley, Alex rushes to Jamey Cadmus, the patient he had failed five years before - and who now calls with a bizarre cry for help. But by the time Alex reaches Canyon Oaks Psychiatric Hospital, Jamey is gone, surfacing a day later in the hands of the police, who believe Jamey is the infamous Lavender Slasher, a psychotic serial killer.