Taut, penetrating, terrifying, BAD LOVE is vintage Kellerman.
Jonathan Kellerman was a child psychologist before becoming a full-time novelist. He is married to the writer Faye Kellerman and they live in Los Angeles with their four children.
'Simply too good to miss' Stephen King'Convincing psychiatrics; stylish, solidly characterised and salted as usual with Kellerman's distaste for the LA landscape.' LITERARY REVIEW'His portrait of lotus land under seige, with its underclass of sickos, addicts and no-hopers is precise and convincing.' OBERVER'Kellerman's books get better and better, and this story is filled with tension right up to the final revelations.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'A terrific read and one that will keep you page-turning into the small hours.' IRISH TIMES'His ninth novel featuring child pyschologist turned amateur sleuth Dr Alex Delaware, Kellerman always writes intelligently, treading with compassion and understanding through the minefield of the human psyche. He also evokes successfully the new Californian landscape, where therapy is both the solution to and the cause of every problem.' HARPERS AND QUEEN' not just one but two startling twists in the tail.' SOUTH WALES EVENING POST'Kellerman is as reliable as they come as a purveyor of long haul page-turners.' MAIL ON SUNDAY
The latest Dr. Alex Delaware novel, after Devil's Waltz , follows the child psychologist on an intricately plotted, murder-strewn course that started 20 years earlier when he was on staff at a Los Angeles children's hospital. Recently, Alex has become the target of ominous threats: weird laughter over the phone, a fish from his pond cruelly skewered, a tape of a child's voice repeating the words ``bad love . '' Initially he ties the threats to his work with two young sisters whose father, in prison for the murder of their mother, is claiming visitation rights. But Alex also remembers the phrase ``bad love'' was used by a child psychiatrist honored at a 1979 symposium he cosponsored at the hospital. A file search by his LAPD pal Milo Sturgis connects the phrase to two LA murders five and three years ago; inquiries by Alex reveal a surprisingly high death rate among speakers at the symposium. After more murders and harsher threats, the trails converge in a confrontation with a psychotic killer. Kellerman constructs his plot as adeptly as Robin Castagna, Alex's live-in lover, builds her prized guitars, but the decades-past motivation, the tangled connections among victims and Alex's peripheral association with the murderer foster a clinical detachment from the story's events. BOMC selection. (Jan.)
'Simply too good to miss' Stephen King'Convincing psychiatrics; stylish, solidly characterised and salted as usual with Kellerman's distaste for the LA landscape.' LITERARY REVIEW'His portrait of lotus land under seige, with its underclass of sickos, addicts and no-hopers is precise and convincing.' OBERVER'Kellerman's books get better and better, and this story is filled with tension right up to the final revelations.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'A terrific read and one that will keep you page-turning into the small hours.' IRISH TIMES'His ninth novel featuring child pyschologist turned amateur sleuth Dr Alex Delaware, Kellerman always writes intelligently, treading with compassion and understanding through the minefield of the human psyche. He also evokes successfully the new Californian landscape, where therapy is both the solution to and the cause of every problem.' HARPERS AND QUEEN' not just one but two startling twists in the tail.' SOUTH WALES EVENING POST'Kellerman is as reliable as they come as a purveyor of long haul page-turners.' MAIL ON SUNDAY
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