Delaware Mysteries

Barnpsykologen Alex Delaware mottar ett kassettband där någon har spelat in ett skrik och en barnröst som entonigt rabblar orden "ond kärlek, ond kärlek. Ge mig inte ond kärlek!" När hans kollega Milo Sturgis får höra det kopplar han det genast ihop det med mordet på en socialarbetare, där gärningsmannen - en psykiskt sjuk uteliggare - skrikit exakt samma ord. Tillsammans nystar de upp en fruktansvärd historia om barnmisshandel, hat och hämnd. En skakande berättelse om hur det "goda" kan slå över i sin motsats, och hur offer plötsligt förvandlas till förövare.

Psykologen Alex Delaware har åkt på en kombinerad arbets- och semesterresa till en paradisisk ö i Stilla havet, tillsammans med sin flickvän. Men deras idylliska tillvaro avbryts plötslig av mystiska nattliga besökare och oförklarliga händelser. Snart är de indragna i en virvelstorm av våld, mord och vansinne. Och när Delaware till slut upptäcker sanningen är den mer chockartad än han kunnat föreställa sig. En briljant sammansatt thriller om förflutna tragedier och begravda hemligheter.

Unraveling the madness behind L.A.’s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. And putting the good doctor through his thrilling paces is what mystery fiction’s #1 best-selling master of psychological suspense Jonathan Kellerman does with incomparable brilliance. Kellerman’s universally acclaimed novels blend the addictive rhythms of the classic police procedural with chilling glimpses into the darkest depths of the human condition.

The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something "real dead . . . buried in your marsh." The eco-volunteer on the other end of the phone thinks it's a prank, but when a young woman's body turns up in L.A.'s Bird Marsh preserve no one's laughing. And when the bones of more victims surface, homicide detective Milo Sturgis realizes the city's under siege to an insidious killer. Milo's first move: calling in psychologist Alex Delaware.

Forgetting is hard; remembering is hell. Twins Jennie and Lizzie Hall grow up in a gilded cage. Daughters of a sadistic Hollywood producer, they live in the lap of luxury but tremble when Mommy goes to bed and it’s time to sit on Daddy’s lap. They make a suicide pact - but when Lizzie changes her mind halfway through, it lands Jennie in an institution. Always the strong one, she’s eager for revenge, preferably before Lizzie loses what’s left of her mind.

Eldon Mate kallas Doktor Död eftersom han brukar hjälpa människor ut på "den sista resan”. En kall morgon hittas han själv svårt lemlästad i sin skåpbil, fastspänd vid sin egen uppfinning, dödsmaskinen Humanitron. Milo Sturgis vid Los Angeles-polisen kallar in sin vän psykologen Alex Delaware för att göra en brottsprofil. Alex känner sig olustig till mods inför uppdraget. Han har nyligen behandlat en flicka vars mor tagit livet av sig, troligen med hjälp av Doktor Död.

Billy Straight är tolv år. Han har rymt hemifrån för att komma undan sin misslyckade mor och framför allt hennes våldsamma pojkvän. Med hjälp av mammans sparpengar tar han sig till Los Angeles, där han försörjer sig genom att tigga och stjäla. En natt får han se en ung kvinna mördas och flyr i rädsla av att ha blivit upptäckt. Snart inleder polisen sitt sökande, både efter den brutale mördaren och det vittne som glömt kvar sina tillhörigheter i närheten av brottsplatsen. Plötsligt är Billy jagad, inte bara av gärningsmannen och polisen, utan även av andra som uppenbarligen inte vill att han ska komma undan.

Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has helped psychologist Alex Delaware crack tough cases in the past. And in Jonathan Kellerman's New York Times best seller Billy Straight, she took the lead in the desperate hunt for a teenage runaway stalked by a vengeful murderer. Now the complex and wryly compassionate Petra is once again at the center of the action, in a novel of cunning twists and page-turning suspense.

In a host of consecutive best sellers, Jonathan Kellerman has kept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acute adventures of Dr. Alex Delaware. Rage offers a powerful new case in point, as Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis revisit a horrifying crime from the past that has taken on shocking and deadly new dimensions.

A series of horrifying events occur in quick succession in the same upscale L.A. neighborhood. A backyard renovation unearths an infant’s body, buried 60 years ago. And soon thereafter in a nearby park, another disturbingly bizarre discovery is made not far from the body of a young woman shot in the head. Helping LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to link these eerie incidents is brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But even the good doctor’s vast experience with matters both clinical and criminal might not be enough to cut down to the bone of this chilling case - and draw out the disturbing truth.

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.

When the slightly retarded 15-year-old daughter of a diplomat is murdered in cold blood on school field trip in the Santa Monica Mountains, her father adamantly denies the possibility of a political motive. The Los Angeles Police Department's Detective Milo Sturgis and his longtime friend, psychologist Alex Delaware, pose the question: Why?

In the half-built skeleton of a monstrously vulgar mansion in one of L.A.’s toniest neighborhoods, a watchman stumbles on the bodies of a young couple–murdered in flagrante and left in a gruesome postmortem embrace. Though he’s cracked some of the city’s worst slayings, veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis is still shocked at the grisly sight: a twisted crime that only Milo’s killer instincts–and psychologist Alex Delaware’s keen insights–can hope to solve.

Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, at 19, Patty Bigelow, Tanya's aunt and adoptive mother, has made a deathbed confession of murder and urged the young woman to seek Delaware's help.

A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts of cruelty and psychopathology are linked only by the killer's use of luxury vehicles and a baffling lack of motive.

Even having hundreds of closed cases to his credit can't keep LAPD police lieutenant Milo Sturgis from agonizing over the crimes that don't get solved - and the victims who go without justice. Victims like Katherine Hennepin, a young woman strangled and stabbed in her home. A single suspect with a solid alibi leads to a dead end - one even Alex Delaware's expert insight can't explain. The only thing to do is move on to the next murder case - because there's always a next one.

Jonathan Kellerman has distinguished himself as the master of the psychological thriller. Now L.A. psychologist-detective Alex Delaware confronts a long-unsolved murder of unspeakable brutality - an ice-cold case whose resolution threatens his survival, and that of longtime friend, homicide detective, Milo Sturgis.

Jonathan Kellerman's LA 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 as its best.

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.

Børnepsykologen Alex Delaware bliver endnu engang bedt om at hjælpe politiet i deres jagt på en forskruet seriemorder, der hærger Los Angeles' gader. Efterforskningen fører Delaware og efterforskeren Sturgis til et fængsel for psykisk syge kriminelle. Seriemorderen, der stadig terroriserer byen, myrder efter et mønster, der minder om en af de indsattes fremgangsmåde i de forbrydelser, han sidder i fængsel for.