Delaware Mysteries

At nearly 100 years old, Thalia Mars is a far cry from the patients that child psychologist Alex Delaware normally treats. But the charming, witty woman convinces Alex to meet with her in a suite at the Aventura, a luxury hotel with a checkered history. What Thalia wants from Alex are answers to unsettling questions - about guilt, patterns of criminal behavior, victim selection. When Alex asks the reason for her morbid fascination, Thalia promises to tell all during their next session. When he shows up the following morning, he is met with silence: Thalia is dead.

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 stricken with shame.

Three months in paradise, all expenses paid. It's an invitation Alex Delaware can't refuse. Dr. Woodrow Wilson Moreland, a revered scientist and philanthropist on the tiny Pacific island of Aruk, has invited Alex to his home to help him organize his papers for publication - a light workload leaving Alex plenty of time to enjoy a romantic interlude with Robin Castagna. Quickly, however, secretive houseguests, frightening nocturnal visitors, and the elusive Dr. Moreland himself dim the pleasures of deep blue water and white sand.

The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by Connie against her sister and begins to realize that there is much about the siblings he has failed to comprehend.

In Los Angeles, the law is anything other than an open-and-shut matter. There are those who think it's flexible, and those who strive to enforce it above all else. A young woman is found dead at her kitchen table and the DNA on the cigarette butts in the ashtray in front of her belongs to her ex-boyfriend, who has a record. This is a case Milo and Alex call open and shut, but the guy has an airtight alibi. Could an enemy from his shady past have framed him?

Few know the city of Los Angeles the way #1 bestselling author and acclaimed suspense master Jonathan Kellerman does. His thrilling novels of psychological drama and criminal detection make the capital of dreams a living, breathing character in all its glamour and infamy. That storied history of fame, seduction, scandal, and murder looms large in Mystery, as Alex Delaware finds himself drawn into a twisting, shadowy whodunit that’s pure L.A. noir—and vintage Kellerman.

Three months ago, Hope Devane was found stabbed to death on a quiet, shady street in one of LA's safest neighborhoods. The police have found no clues to her murder. Now Detective Milo Sturgis, newly assigned to the case, turns to his psychologist friend, Dr. Alex Delaware, looking for insights into Hope's life. She was a psychology professor and controversial author of a pop-psych best seller, an angry indictment of men. Both Milo and Alex believe Hope's murder to be an execution fueled by hate.

Philadelphia. Marsha O’Shea is eager to reclaim her mojo. So when the dedicated FBI agent receives intel on a Russian gangster consolidating power throughout the city, she digs deep into covert plans threatening to fill the streets with bullet-ridden terror. But she’s devastated when her investigation leads to the torturous death of a crime-beat reporter with evidence.

Her name is Elise Freeman, and her chilling cry for help to whoever may be listening comes too late to save her. On a DVD found near her lifeless body, the emotionally and physically battered woman chronicles a year-and-a-half-long ordeal of monstrous abuse at the hands of three sadistic tormentors. But even more shocking than the lurid details is the revelation that the offenders, like their victim, are teachers at one of L.A.s most prestigious prep schools.

"I’ve got a weird one, so naturally I thought of you,” says Milo Sturgis, summoning his friend Alex to the trendy gallery where a promising young artist has been brutally garroted on the night of her first major showing. What makes it “a weird one” is the lack of any obvious motive, and the luridly careful staging of the murder scene - which immediately suggests to Alex not an impulsive crime of passion...but the meticulous and taunting modus operandi of a serial killer.

"Been a while since I had me a nice little whodunit," homicide detective Milo Sturgis tells Alex Delaware. But there's definitely nothing nice about the brutal tableau behind the yellow crime-scene tape. On a lonely lover's lane in the hills of Los Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each bears a single gunshot wound to the head.

It is a case unlike any psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware has ever encountered. Five-year-old Woody Swope is ill, but the real problem is his parents. They refuse to agree to the one treatment that could save this boy's life. Alex sets out to convince Mr. and Mrs. Swope - only to find that the parents have left the hospital and taken their son with them. Worse, the sleazy motel room where the Swopes were staying is empty - except for the ominous bloodstain. The Swopes and their son have vanished into the sordid shadows of the city.

It is into the mist-shrouded heart of this forbidden, mountainous realm that our plucky and intrepid heroes, Jasper Dash: Boy Technonaut and his friends Lily Gefelty and Katie Mulligan, must journey to unravel a terrible mystery. Come along on a tale of grand adventure that includes in its pages: Lost cities! Tentacles! Monks! Dinosaurs! Gangsters! Cheap suits! Eye doctors! And, of course, the fabled curse of the jaguar!

Lauren Teague är en utmanande och stökig tonårsflicka vars föräldrar tar kontakt med psykologen Alex Delaware för att söka hjälp åt sin dotter. Flera år senare korsas deras vägar igen, då Lauren uppträder som strippa på en svensexa där Alex Delaware är med. En kort tid därpå hittas Laurens döda kropp på en bakgata - hon har blivit hänsynslöst avrättad med flera pistolskott. Det visar sig att Lauren har försörjt sig som prostituerad för att få råd med universitetsstudierna i psykologi.

Polismannen Nolan Dahl går in på ett kafé, stoppar pistolen i munnen och trycker av. Hans syster Helena chockas svårt och blir remitterad till psykolog Alex Delaware, som försöker få ihop en rättvisande bild av Nolan och ett svar på frågan varför han sköt sig. Strax därefter hittas två handikappade barn mördade med kort mellanrum. Kommissarie Milo Sturgis tar sin vän Alex Delaware till hjälp i utredningen och snart står det klart att någon dödar utifrån egna elitistiska värderingar - tar liv som inte är värda att leva. Men vem är den skoningslöse mördaren?

Doktor Alex Delaware tar egentligen inte emot några nya patienter, men den unga Lucy Lowell är ett undantag. Efter att ha suttit i juryn vid den uppmärksammade rättegången mot en seriemördare har hon drabbats av en återkommande mardröm: ett ensamt barn som mitt i natten, ute i skogen, bevittnar ett fruktansvärt brott. Är det kanske minnen från hennes egen barndom som sakta börjar komma upp till ytan? Minnen av ett tidigare mord... En rafflande psykologisk spänningsroman där dåtid och nutid vävs samman på ett ödesmättat sätt.

En ung man med skådespelardrömmar hittas död i bagageluckan på en bil, sågad mitt itu. Några månader senare påträffas en ung kvinnlig psykolog mördad och stympad. Morden har en hel del gemensamma nämnare så polisen utgår från att det är samma gärningsman. Psykolog Alex Delaware och hans vän kommissarie Milo Sturgis får i uppdrag att undersöka illdåden. De dras in i en virvel av familjetragedier, hämnd och manipulationer. Och deras slutgiltiga upptäckt ger en helt ny och skrämmande innebörd åt begreppet monster.

Den radikala professorn Hope Devane hittas brutalt knivmördad utanför sitt hem. Hon var en stridbar debattör i feministiska frågor och författare till en bästsäljande bok där hon tydligt uttryckte sitt förakt för män. Polisen hittar inga som helst ledtrådar och efter några månaders resultatlöst arbete kontaktar man psykologen Alex Delaware för hjälp. Det visar sig snart att Hope var en kvinna med en hel del hemligheter, både privat och yrkesmässigt.

George and Gracie begin their adventure in Dover, Delaware 1776. The kids are surprised to discover that one of them changes into an animal every time they travel, and this time Gracie is a horse. All the twins want to do is return a pair of antique school desks and search for their parents. But instead they find themselves in the middle of the American Revolution and end up helping Caesar Rodney make his famous ride into Philadelphia to vote “yes” for the Declaration of Independence. Crowe lands in Delaware, too, and he plans to take the time machine - with George and Gracie inside!

Psykologen Alex Delaware får ett märkligt paket utan avsändare. Inuti finns ett album med fruktansvärda fotografier av brottsplatser. Bilderna säger inte Alex något, men när hans vän, Los Angeles-polisen Milo Sturgis, får syn på en av dem - fotot av en ung strypt kvinna - blir han djupt skakad. Det var ett av hans första fall, ett brutalt mord som aldrig blev löst. Nu, två decennier senare, har någon uppenbarligen valt att låta det förflutna återuppstå. När Alex och Milo börjar gräva i den gamla historien sätter de sina egna liv på spel.