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Flesh and Blood
by Jonathan Kellerman (Narrator: John Rubinstein)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Random House Audio (2001-11-20)
ISBN: 037541942X
EAN: 9780375419423
Dewey Decimal #: 813.54
Audio Cassette
Edition: Unabridged
Release Date: 2001-11-20
SKU: 01KA-015-6-0708
Condition: New
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
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Perennial bestseller and acknowledged master of the psychological thriller, Jonathan Kellerman has created his most riveting and memorable work to date in the Alex Delaware novel about a troubled and elusive young woman whose brutal murder forces the brilliant psychologist-detective to confront his own fallibility.
Lauren Teague is a beautiful, defiant, borderline-delinquent teenager when her parents bring her to Alex Delaware's office. But for all Alex's skill and effort, Lauren resists—angrily, provocatively. Reluctantly, the psychologist chalks Lauren up as one of the inevitable failures of a challenging profession. But years later, when Alex encounters Lauren as a stag party's featured entertainment, both doctor and patient are sticken with shame. And the ultimate horror takes place when, soon after, Lauren's brutalized corpse is found dumped in an alley. Alex disregards the advice of his trusted friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, and jeopardizes his relationship with longtime lover, Robin Castagna, in order to pursue Lauren's murderer. As he investigates his young patient's troubled past, Alex enters the shadowy worlds of fringe psychological experimentation and the sex industry, and then into mortal danger when lust and big money collide in Southern California.
Jonathan Kellerman's L.A. is evil, seductive, erotic, and unforgiving, and Flesh and Blood is mind-opening in its drama of a driven man's personal quest, breathtaking in its ingenious plot, filled with unforgettable characters, and topped off by a terrifying climax. This is suspense fiction at its finest.
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Amazon.com Review
Psychologist Alex Delaware hasn't been in private practice for a long time, but when the mother of a former patient calls and asks for his help, he can't turn her down. He couldn't help Lauren Teague when she was alive, but something about his failure with the beautiful, sullen teenager who grew up to be a high-priced call girl won't let him walk away after her bullet-ridden body turns up in an L.A. dumpster. When she wasn't turning tricks, she was a straight-A student; despite his detective pal Milo's demurral, Alex is convinced there's a connection between Lauren's death and another beautiful UCLA psych major who disappeared a year earlier. With his customary skill and compassion, Jonathan Kellerman draws us deep into Lauren's complicated life, from a university campus to a Malibu estate owned by a wealthy publisher of soft-core porn (who bears a distinct resemblance to the pajama-clad mogul who made a small white bunny famous). Kellerman's last couple of books have been a bit disappointing, but here the bestselling author is writing up to the high standard he set in his earlier ones. With solid plotting, well-realized characterizations, and a strong narrative drive, Flesh and Blood delivers the real goods on every page. --Jane Adams
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Customer Reviews
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Lots of twists and turns
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-01-16
This a book with so many mysteries. Maybe the greatest is how can Delaware be wrong so many times about so many things and then everything becomes crystal clear to him. Still, it's an enjoyable read, and Kellerman does do a decent job of fleshing out many of the minor characters. Delaware's propensity to develop outlandish scenarios on the barest of evidence did get a bit tiring. Overall it was good book with an ending that you didn't see coming from page 1.
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Jonathan Kellerman is my favorite!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-12-30
I love all of the Alex Delaware books! I have the entire series and have almost finished them. Sometimes some of the books are slower than others, but for the most part I am always thrilled! Jonathan Kellerman always comes through!
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Kellerman Doesn't Impress
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-04-16
The first Kellerman book I have read, and possibly the last I think.
It was Ok, a murder mystery that delves into the world of prostitution and porn. It didn't leave me wanting to read more from this author, but judging from other reviews on this page, it is possible I started with the wrong book.
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Delaware Delivers
Rating (4)
Date: 2007-01-21
When Alex Delaware, former counseling psychologist turned consultant to LAPD, has a former patient murdered, he seems compelled to try to find the murderer. He contacts his friend, Milo, police detective, and they work on the case together. Kellerman's style of writing is very descriptive and enjoyable. Also, the book is fairly suspensful (and a little far fetched at times). Despite a few flaws, it is an enjoyable read. I actually listened to this book on tape and it was easy to get into. This is the third book I have read by Kellerman, and so far it's my favorite. I like the way the author chooses to have the main character, Alex, reveal his thoughts about various people as suspects. He often sifts through his thoughts, and it keeps the reader in tune with who the character sees as the most likely suspects. I would recommend this book as a great starting point, if you were interested in trying out Kellerman.
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Alex is digging himself a deep hole.
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-07-09
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Seems to me Alex has been getting increasingly obsessive over the years and in this one, he is going over the deep end.
Out of nowhere, Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware gets a frantic phone call from the mother of a former patient. Lauren Teague was a troubled teen when Alex tried to treat her years ago - one of his failures. After years on the street, though, the 25 year old woman seems to have turned her life around and is currently a psych major at the U - influenced by her brief visits to Dr. Delaware as a teen. But now, she is missing and her mother fears the worse. Alex does what little he can to try to find her, but when his pal Milo Sturgis, the homicide detective, finds her murdered, Alex becomes absolutely obsessed.
He starts neglecting his girlfriend Robin, he disregards Milo's warnings and goes snooping on his own. Is it because he feels he failed Lauren all those years ago? Or is the case merely a welcomed distraction from his own disquietude? And he's not his usual erudite self in this one either - he gets a lot of things wrong - almost gets himself killed. He gets enough right, though, to lead Milo in the right direction and eventually the tangled conspiracy is unearthed and the true tragedy is revealed. But at what expense? Will his relationship with Robin survive?
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