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31 Jan 08

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First British Edition Michael Joseph (2008)

Obsession

The worst thing about deathbed confessions is that you rarely find out why ...

... Or, in this case, who.
Psychologist Alex Delaware hasn’t seen Tanya Bigelow since she was a little girl and her strange behaviour forced her guardian, Patty, to seek professional help. Now Tanya is a young woman and Patty is dead. But she didn’t die nearly as quietly as she lived .. .
After Alex promises Tanya that he’ll look into the ‘terrible thing’ that Patty used her final few breaths to hint at, two things quickly become obvious. First, that the mysterious crime wasn’t necessarily Patty’s only secret; and second, that Alex’s cop friend, Milo Sturgis, picked a bad week to take a quiet vacation.
‘t As the pair follow a murky trail through the sordid alleys of LA clubland in search of the truth about Patty Bigelow, they discover that the danger she whispered about is still alive and well. But the dying is far from over.
Has Patty’s confession put her beloved Tanya’s life at risk? How far will someone go to ensure that the past stays there?
And does obsession ever truly die ...?
‘Kellerman scores again superb’ Independent On Sunday
Praise for Jonathan Kellerman
`Plot and sub-plot coalesce satisfyingly in high-octane entertainment that never loses its characters’ vulnerability’ The Times
‘Kellerman has shaped the psychological mystery novel into an art form’ Los Angeles Times Book Review
‘Jonathan Kellerman has justly earned his reputation as a master of the psychological thriller’ People
'Thanks to his Alex Delaware novels, Jonathan Kellerman is right up there with Patricia Cornwell and Ian Rankin...' The Mirror
‘Kellerman really knows how to keep those pages turning’ New York Times Book Review 'Kellerman has built up an impressive reputation by writing consistently stylish and literate novels that offer a rich mixture of psychological tension and bleak but acute and compassionate social observation' James Melville
'A good read, topical and genuinely engrossing' Time Out
'Endlessly intriguing; as good as they come' Literary Review
'As ingenious as ever ... first-rate' Express
'Kellerman has created a sympathetic and engaging hero' The Times
'Sophisticated, cleverly plotted and satisfying psychodrama' The Sunday Telegraph
'Wholly absorbing' Evening Standard
'Kellerman writes thrillers which nag the nerve ends' Literary Review 'Kellerman has proved that you can combine action, mystery and believable characters to create an intelligent bestseller' Crime Time
'A terrific read and one that will keep you page-turning into the small hours.' Irish Times
‘Often mystery writers can either plot like devils or create believable characters. Kellerman stands out because he can do both. Masterfully.’ USA Today
‘He writes stories of such multi-layered complexity they are among the most rewarding works in any genre of popular fiction… Kellerman grows stronger with every book – this surely is his finest yet’ Ireland on Sunday

Paperback - Penguin (2007)

Gone
The Real Scene Of Crime Is The Mind
Los Angeles is full of performers. But for psychologist Alex Delaware, spotting what’s real and what’s not is a matter of life and death.
Called in to evaluate an aspiring actress accused of staging her own abduction, Alex finds nothing too unusual - until the girl is savagely murdered. To complicate matters, Dylan Meserve, the victim’s boyfriend and fellow accused, has disappeared.
Is Dylan a calculating killer, or another victim? Alex and homicide detective Milo Sturgis are on the hunt for suspects. Meanwhile, the killer’s trawling the seedy underbelly of Hollywood on a very different mission ...
‘Kellerman is skilled at wrapping a mystery in enough layers to keep us guessing until the grisly denouement’ Daily Telegraph
‘Master of the psychological thriller’ People

First British Edition Headline (2004)

Twisted

It was nothing Petra would have ever noticed, even if it had stared her in the face. And her initial reaction is big deal.

A year after the Cold Heart murders and Detective Petra Connor is, once again, working Hollywood Homicide solo. She’s struggling with a baffling drive-past murder when Isaac Gomez appears in her office to tell her he’s found something she might want to take a look at. Isaac, a twenty-two-year-old prodigy researching crime patterns for his thesis, has been assigned to Petra’s care, and she views him with a mixture of protectiveness and irritation. His idea that there’s a connection between six unsolved murders committed in the LAPD area over the past six years, all at around midnight on June 28, seems fanciful at first - but as Petra starts to look closely at the files, the links become more and more clear. Something evil has managed to conceal itself between the dry pages: a series of killings so meticulously constructed that the mind behind them would have remained invisible without Isaac’s sharp probing. And June 28 is just a month away - will Petra be able to stop the murderer from striking again?
Twisted is the second Petra Connor novel and a superb example of Jonathan Kellerman’s mastery of the psychological thriller. In a work as compelling as anything he’s written, the Sunday Times bestselling author builds up suspense so subtly that the reader is hooked without knowing it, and drawn on to the very last page.
‘Plot and sub-plot coalesce satisfyingly in high-octane entertainment that never loses its characters’ vulnerability’ The Times
‘He writes stories of such multi-layered complexity they are among the most rewarding works in any genre of popular fiction... Kellerman grows stronger with every book’ Ireland on Sunday
‘Kellerman has shaped the psychological mystery novel into an art form’ Los Angeles Times Book Review
‘Jonathan Kellerman has justly earned his reputation as a master of the psychological thriller’ People
‘Gripping, intricately plotted... Kellerman is a master at building character and slowly unfolding events, divulging just the right amount of information’ Publishers Weekly ‘Endlessly intriguing; as good as they come’ Literary Review
‘Kellerman has proved that you can combine action, mystery and believable characters to create an intelligent bestseller’ Crime Time
‘Sophisticated, cleverly plotted and satisfying’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Often mystery writers can either plot like devils or create believable characters. Kellerman stands out because he can do both. Masterfully’ USA Today

First British Edition Headline (2004)

Therapy

`Been a while since I had me a nice little whodunit,’ Milo Sturgis tells psychologist Alex Delaware. Though there’s definitely nothing nice about the brutal tableau behind the yellow crime-scene tape. On a lonely lovers’ lane in the hills of Los Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each bears a single gunshot wound to the head. But the female victim has also been impaled by a metal spike. And that savage stroke of psychopathic fury tells Milo this case will call for more than standard police procedure. As he explains to Delaware, `Now we’re veering into your territory.’

It is dark territory, indeed. The dead woman remains unidentified and seemingly unknown. But her companion has a name: Gavin Quick - and his troubled past eventually landed him on a therapist’s couch. It’s there, on familiar turf, that Delaware hopes to find vital clues. And that means going head-to-head with Dr Mary Lou Koppel, a popular celebrity psychologist who fiercely guards the privacy of her clients ... dead or alive.
Jonathan Kellerman has made the psychological thriller his own gripping province with his bestselling series of Alex Delaware novels. As provocative as it is suspenseful, Therapy is premier Kellerman that finds the Sunday Times bestselling author firing on all creative cylinders. This new adventure takes Delaware on a harrowing exploration into the realm he knows best: the human psyche, in all its complexity, mystery and terrifying propensity for darkness.

First British Edition Headline (2003)

The Conspiracy Club
Dedicated young psychologist Dr Jeremy Carrier is unschooled in the ways of violent crime and incalculable evil - until his life is irreversibly touched by both. When his romance with nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, he is left emotionally devastated and being warily eyed by police seeking a prime suspect in the unsolved killing. To escape the pain, he buries himself in his work. But when more women turn up murdered in the same gruesome fashion as Jocelyn, the suspicion surrounding Jeremy intensifies and the only way for him to prove his innocence is to follow the trail of a cunning psychopath.
Spurring on Jeremy’s investigation is Dr Arthur Chess, an enigmatic pathologist who harbours a keen fascination with the darker deeds committed by the living. Arthur draws Jeremy into the confidence of a cryptic society devoted to matters unknown and unspoken. But when Arthur suddenly slips away, Jeremy is left to contend with an onslaught of anonymous clues - and the growing realisation that a harrowing game of cat and mouse has been set in motion.
Who besides Jeremy is playing? And who is making the rules? Jeremy races to connect the disturbing puzzle pieces before the killer strikes again. Yet his search for answers only seems to yield more questions. And as the game intensifies, Jeremy must decide whether a secret ally is guiding him on the right path ... or a sadistic enemy is setting him up for a fate far beyond even the most twisted imagination.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Murder Book and a Cold Heart, The Conspiracy Club is a thrilling hunt for a twenty-first century Jack the Ripper, with an intriguing and compulsive plot that seems to coil even as it unravels. It is a masterpiece of suspense from one of the world’s most popular authors.

About The Author
Jonathan Kellerman was born in New York City and grew up in Los Angeles. He received a BA in Psychology at UCLA and a PhD in Psychology at the University of Southern California, where he is currently Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine.
His internship and post-doctoral fellowship were at the Children's Hospital/USC School of Medicine, where he became founding director of the Psychosocial Program, Division of Hematology-Oncology. He is the author of numerous articles in the scientific and popular press, two books on psychology - Psychological Aspects of Childhood Cancer and Helping the Fearful Child - two children's books - Daddy, Daddy, Can you Touch the Sky? and Jonathan Kellerman's ABC of Weird Creatures - which he also illustrated, and fourteen consecutive bestselling novels.
His first crime novel When the Bough Breaks was published in 1985, became an American bestseller and was adapted as a television film. He has published a novel every year since then, most of which feature Dr Alex Delaware a former child psychologist and Detective Milo Sturgis of the Los Angeles Police Department. These include: Blood Test, Over the Edge, The Butcher's Theatre, Silent Partner, Time Bomb, Private Eyes, Devil's Waltz, Bad Love, Self-Defence, The Web, The Clinic and Survival of the Fittest. In 1998 Little, Brown published Billy Straight, which though set in Los Angeles featured a female protagonist in the LAPD.
There are currently over 20 million copies of his books in print, translated into two dozen foreign languages.
He has been the recipient of numerous awards over the years: The Samuel Goldwyn Creative Writing Award, the Edgar Allen Poe, the Anthony Boucher, the American Psychological Association's Media Award and Keynote Address, the Psyche Award of the Foundation of the LA County Psychological Association and the Distinguished Alumnus Award and Lecture of the Department of Psychology/UCLA.
He and his wife, the novelist Faye Kellerman, have four children. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Obsession (Michael Joseph, 2008) Jan 08

Gone ( 2006) Penguin Pbk Jun 07

Twisted (Headline, 2004)

Therapy (Headline, 2004) (Alex Delaware)

The Conspiracy Club (Headline, 2003) Pbk Apr 04

A Cold Heart (Headline, 2003) (Alex Delaware)

The Murder Book (Headline, 2002) (Alex Delaware)

Flesh and Blood ( 2001) Headline Pbk Sep 02 (Alex Delaware)

Dr Death (Little,Brown, 2000) (Alex Delaware)

Monster (Little,Brown, 2000) Warner Pbk Dec 00 (Alex Delaware)

Billy Straight (Little,Brown, 1998) Warner Pbk Mar 00 (Petra Connor)

Survival of the Fittest (Little,Brown, 1997) (Alex Delaware)

The Clinic (Little,Brown, 1996) (Alex Delaware)

The Web (Little,Brown, 1995) (Alex Delaware)

Self-Defence (Little,Brown, 1994) Warner Pbk 1997 (Alex Delaware)

Bad Love (Little,Brown, 1993) Warner Pbk 1994 (Alex Delaware)

Devil's Waltz (Little,Brown, 1992) (Alex Delaware)

Private Eyes (Macdonald, 1991) (Alex Delaware)

Time Bomb (Macdonald, 1990) (Alex Delaware)

Silent Partner (Macdonald, 1989) (Alex Delaware)

The Butcher's Theatre (Macdonald, 1988) (Daniel Sharavi)

Over the Edge (Macdonald, 1987) (Alex Delaware)

Blood Test (Macdonald, 1986) Warner Pbk 1988 (Alex Delaware)

When the Bough Breaks (Macdonald, 1985) First published in UK as Shrunken Heads Warner Pbk 1996 (Alex Delaware)