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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I'm guessing this is the first Alex Delaware book. Creepy tale of child abuse and murder. A good read. mochap | May 29, 2009 |   The Alex Delaware series is one of the first I read in this genre, probably 15 years ago. Of course, I started in the middle of the series and had yet to get around to the first books. This was okay. I got a little bogged down in the mystery because a lot of the characters were similar to each other and I sometimes forgot who was being referred to. There was a lot of "the bad guy explains the entire scheme" at the end. However, it was worth it to see how Alex starts working for the police and the beginnings of his friendship with Milo and relationship with Robin. (  )miyurose | Dec 12, 2008 | Fairly good tale with psychopathic child molesters as bad guys. The ending is a little too much. (  )Darrol | Mar 30, 2008 | This is the first Alex Delaware novel. As a beginner, it is a good novel. It introduces us to Alex Delaware, and Milo Sturgis, his detective friend. The story itself is pretty dark, with a little girl witnessing a murder. Overall a good read and very good start to the Alex Delaware series. (  )willow23 | Mar 26, 2008 | This is the first of the Alex Delaware novels. In this one, we get the background on how Alex and Milo Sturgis met - over a child abuse case - and details their semi-first case together. The plot's a somewhat improbable one; Melody Quinn possibly saw murderers on their way to commit a crime, so Milo calls Alex in to talk to her, that being his specialty. The plot wanders up to - perhaps over - that line between 'complex' and 'ridiculously unlikely with one coincidence too many'. Workmanline, certainly readable and enjoyable. ( )rotheche | Nov 10, 2007 | 0.030 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345466608, Mass Market Paperback)In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness: seven-year-old Melody Quinn.It's psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job to try to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody's memory. But as the sinister shadows in the girl's mind begin to take shape, Alex discovers that the mystery touches a shocking incident in his own past. This connection is only the beginning, a single link in a forty-year-old conspiracy. And behind it lies an unspeakable evil that Alex Delaware must expose before it claims another innocent victim: Melody Quinn. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:05 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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