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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  FMRox | Nov 14, 2009 |  Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibu. They were carjacked at gunpoint by a masked assailant and subjected to a horrific regimen of confinement, starvation, and assault. Before long, the abduction is exposed as a hoax and the aspiring actors are exposed as criminals themselves. Michaela is examined by Alex Delaware, the case is closed, but reopened when Michaela is found savagely murdered. Dylan has disappeared and Delaware and Sturgis start their search. (  ) jepeters333 | Nov 16, 2008 | Several murders are committed over a several years. All are related to an acting school in LA. The culperate is a family leader who is manipulating some of the family members to rape and kill the people because they remind him of his mother and father. ( ) amacmillen | Oct 28, 2008 | Really bad, couldn't get past the first five chapters. Slow, irrelevant intro failed to grab me. I didn't even get to the girl character's murder (as promised on the book jacket.) DNF. (  ) grheault | Jul 11, 2008 | Another Delaware, ho hum. Fot those that like this sort of thing they'll like this sort of thing. It's better than a wet Thursday in Ballybunion in February - or at least it'll pass the day. (  ) liehtzu | May 10, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0345452615, Hardcover)No one conducts a more chilling, suspenseful, thoroughly engrossing tour through the winding corridors of criminal behavior and the secret chambers of psychopathology than Jonathan Kellerman, the bestselling “master of the psychological thriller” (People). Now the incomparable team of psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide cop Milo Sturgis embark on their most dangerous excursion yet, into the dark places where risk runs high and blood runs cold.It’s a story tailor-made for the nightly news: Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibu -battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor. The details of the nightmarish event are shocking and brutal: The couple was carjacked at gunpoint by a masked assailant and subjected to a horrific regimen of confinement, starvation and assault. But before long, doubts arise about the couple’s story, and as forensic details unfold, the abduction is exposed as a hoax. Charged as criminals themselves, the aspiring actors claim emotional problems, and the court orders psychological evaluation for both. Michaela is examined by Alex Delaware, who finds that her claims of depression and stress ring true enough. But they don’t explain her lies, and Alex is certain that there are hidden layers in this sordid psychodrama that even he hasn’t been able to penetrate. Nevertheless, the case is closed–only to be violently reopened when Michaela is savagely murdered. When the police look for Dylan, they find that he’s gone. Is he the killer or a victim himself? Casting their dragnet into the murkiest corners of L.A., Delaware and Sturgis unearth more questions than answers–including a host of eerily identical killings. What really happened to the couple who cried wolf? And what bizarre and brutal epidemic is infecting the city with terror, madness, and sudden, twisted death? (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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The writing and style are definitely Kellerman-quick and to the point. This book does a better job of keeping the plot interesting with all new twists and turns. No boring moments. Kellerman seem seems to be "softening" Sturgis but not sure if this is going to really develop into anything. Delaware gets beat up some in this one which is unusual for an analytical bystander. There is one entirely hilarious, laugh out loud chapter with a heavily sedated Alex Delaware in the hospital bed-I could use more chapters like that. All in all this book is better than some of Kellerman's other works but the antagonists are gory and deeply disturbed. (