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Devil's Waltz (Alex Delaware Novels) (original 1992; edition 1993)

by Jonathan Kellerman

Series: Alex Delaware (7)

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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
In one of the most frightening and challenging cases of his career, Dr. Alex Delaware must confront a strange medical mystery involving a child.
 
??Reads like wildfire . . . harrowing suspense.???The New York Times Book Review
 
Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones is the picture of health. Yet her parents rush her to the emergency room night after night with symptoms no doctor can explain. Cassie??s parents seem genuinely concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of devotion. When Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him that one of them could be a monster. Then a physician is brutally murdered. A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and his friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, have only hours to uncover the link between Cassie??s terrifying condition and these shocking, seemingly unrelated events.

BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's
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Title:Devil's Waltz (Alex Delaware Novels)
Authors:Jonathan Kellerman
Info:Bantam (1993), Edition: First, Mass Market Paperback, 528 pages
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Devil's Waltz by Jonathan Kellerman (1992)

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Devil's Waltz is a book with several different problems. The characters are all believable as well as the settings. Four stars were given to this very short review. ( )
  lbswiener | Dec 13, 2023 |
This book was so primal, it ought to have been narrated as an audiobook by a screaming Kurt Cobain. It was so shocking. You know there cannot be a lot of red herrings, but the author did not let that bother him.

Is Kellerman really inferior in writing to his wife Faye? That's what someone told me. Faye better than even Jonathan? Scary.

I read book 34 first. Reason for that simply was the title, 'The Wedding Guest'. I thought I was going to be treated with a cozy like experience. But I can no longer convey my impressions. I've forgotten about book 34.

Maybe that's Kellerman's sins. His books don't stick in the mind. I never see his name in the bestsellers list. He ought to out dough James Patterson. Patterson's books too are forgettable. But will the latter get 5 stars from me? No. ( )
  Jiraiya | Mar 13, 2021 |
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  rooke25cr | Dec 25, 2019 |
The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy, the terrifying disease that causes parents to induce illness in their own children. Now, in his most frightening case, Dr. Alex Delaware may have to prove that a child's own mother or father is making her sick. Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones is bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yet her parents rush her to the emergency room night after night with medical symptoms no doctor can explain. Cassie's parents seem sympathetic and deeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of devotion. Yet when child psychologist Alex Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him that one of them may be a monster. Then a physician at the hospital is brutally murdered. A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and his friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis have only hours to uncover the link between these shocking events and the fate of an innocent child.
  Cultural_Attache | Jul 22, 2018 |
sick child, Munchausen theory - someone makes child sick for attention - good

Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones is bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yet her parents rush her to the emergency room night after night with medical symptoms no doctor can explain. Cassie's parents seem sympathetic and deeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of devotion. Yet when child psychologist Alex Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him that one of them may be a monster.
  christinejoseph | Feb 2, 2016 |
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Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold.

—Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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To my son, Jesse, a gentleman and a scholar.
Special thanks to Reuben Eagle, Allan Marder, Yuki Novick, Michael Samet, Dennis Payne, and Harry Weisman, M.D.
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It was a place of fear and myth, home of miracles and the worst kind of failure.
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"The Tujunga detective—a gal, actually, named Dunn—said Vicki was home when it happened, watching TV in the next room."

—Reference to Marge Dunn, a character in the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus mysteries written by Faye Kellerman.
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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
In one of the most frightening and challenging cases of his career, Dr. Alex Delaware must confront a strange medical mystery involving a child.
 
??Reads like wildfire . . . harrowing suspense.???The New York Times Book Review
 
Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones is the picture of health. Yet her parents rush her to the emergency room night after night with symptoms no doctor can explain. Cassie??s parents seem genuinely concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of devotion. When Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him that one of them could be a monster. Then a physician is brutally murdered. A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and his friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, have only hours to uncover the link between Cassie??s terrifying condition and these shocking, seemingly unrelated events.

BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's

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