I prefer the Alex Delaware novels. The brothers are interesting, but the friendship between Alex and Milo is more compelling than the antagonism between the brothers, one a private detective and one a cop. ( )

This is loosely tied to Kellerman's Alex Delaware series, about a psychologist who consults often with the police. In the last book in the series, Kellerman introduced two new detectives, Aaron Fox and Moses Reed.. They are brothers with the same mother, but different fathers. Aaron, the older, is the son of a black cop, and Moe is the son of a white cop who was the black cop's partner. The brothers do not get along. Reed is a policeman while Fox is a private detective.

Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis, the main characters for most of the series, almost don't show up in this novel at all. It is all about Reed and Fox. They wind up on the same case of a college student who has been missing for a year and a half. Their antagonism is sometimes put aside for the sake of solving the case.

The story is a good one, though perhaps a little overlong. The new guys are good, and one of the best characters is their mother. But I miss both Alex and Milo. ( )

I'm fond of Jonathan Kellerman's books, but this one was a disappointment.

Generally, his books are well-plotted with interesting well-developed characters & unusual spins on behavior that keep me absorbed & in suspense. I also really like his wife's books (Faye Kellerman) & I enjoy the way they mix their LA characters into each other's worlds. It makes the world of their LA more real somehow.

This book is okay, but just okay. The characters are okay, the plot is okay, it's just kind of flat & okay. It feels perfunctory in the way a series starts to feel when the author has written too many too fast for too long & is running out of ideas &/or desire (see also, Patricia Cornwell). Kellerman's writing about new characters here, but it still falls flat. Hopefully the next one out will have improved. He's capable of writing great mysteries/thrillers which makes this one even more disappointing. ( )

A fairly average thriller featuring brothers Moses Reed and Aaron Fox. The difficult relationship between them is really the main focus of the story, the plot itself feels a bit incidental. The story was okay but I missed the presence of Delaware and Sturgis, despite a cameo from the former. The character of Lem Dement, a Hollywood big shot who sets up his own virtual religious cult within his large family, seemed to be a not so subtle jab at Mel Gibson. Overall, it was all a little tiresome. ( )

Was rather slow and not the best book he has written. ( )