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Billy Straight Survival of the Fittest The Clinic The Web Self-Defence

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Paperback - Warner (2000)

First British Edition Little,Brown (1998)

Billy Straight
A young boy witnesses a murder, but who will find him first… the cops of the killer?
When beautiful Lisa Boehlinger Ramsey is found brutally stabbed to death in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, a highly sensitive investigation begins for Detective Petra Connor and her partner Stu Bishop. For Lisa was the ex-wife of TV star Cart Ramsey, and she had publicly revealed how Ramsey had beaten her up, so suspicion must fall on the millionaire actor. But this is L.A., home of media frenzy and O.J. Simpson, and the brass at LAPD do not want history repeated.
Meanwhile, forensic evidence points to a witness to the murder: twelve-year-old Billy Straight – a very scared little boy, too frightened to come forward, and when Lisa’s parents put a reward out on him, only Petra realises the peril in which this child has been placed.
‘Kellerman's plotting is as ingenious as ever, with the narrative adding layers of complexity to what is already a dramatic whodunit.’ Daily Express
‘The slaying of Lisa is one of the most vivid scenes Kellerman has written; even the sound of the knifing has a disturbingly visceral quality.’ TLS
‘Full of Kellerman's customary psychological insights and pace, this is crime writing as a good read’ Time Out

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First British Edition Little,Brown (1997)

Paperback - Warner

Survival of the Fittest
The slightly retarded fifteen-year-old daughter of a diplomat dies on a school field trip - forced or lured into a deserted corner of the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father adamantly denies the possibility of a political motive, which leaves LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and his longtime friend Alex Delaware to pose the question: why?
The victim's father is so intent on controlling the investigation that Alex and Milo start to wonder if he wants to bring out the truth - or make sure it stays buried. Then there is another killing, and within days Alex finds himself ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of his career. Driven to find answers, he and Milo will work closely with Inspector Daniel Sharavi, the brilliant Israeli police detective introduced in Jonathan Kellerman's The Butcher's Theatre, but it is Alex who goes undercover, alone, to expose the smug brutality of a murderous conspiracy and a terrifying contempt for human life.
Weaving together the threads of a mystery that lead from a child's murder to a young scientist's suicide, Jonathan Kellerman draws one of the most chilling, frighteningly realistic portraits of evil you will ever experience.
‘Fast-paced, well thought out, with an unexpected denouement’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Kellerman writes a passionate denunciation of Eugenics and those who are trying to smuggle it through the back door of mercy killing while keeping the plot racing along and providing a satisfying conclusion. Incidental pleasures include the constant evolution of Californian English and finally an explanation for why Milo, a gay man would deliberately dress badly, something that puzzled me for years… Jonathan Kellerman has proved that you can combine action, mystery and believable characters to create an intelligent bestseller.’ Mark Ramsden, Crime Time
‘Kellerman never fails to maintain interest, and I found this one a particularly good example of his work.’ Irish Times
'Inspired and entirely credible detective work with cockeyed science the chief villain and Nazi exterminators coming a close second. Required reading though, for anyone who still thinks Mossad an organisation to applaud. Good guys and bad guys grow harder and harder to tell apart' Literary Review
'…this is Kellerman firing on all cylinders, by turns ruminative and thrilling, always holding a mirror up to a society in terminal decline. Cracking stuff' Philip Nolan, Evening Herald

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Paperback - Warner

First British Edition Little,Brown (1996)

The Clinic
See Review by Andrew Taylor - author of the highly acclaimed Roth & Lydmouth Series
See Review by Val McDermid - Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill
She was found stabbed to death on a quiet, shaded street in one of Los Angeles' safest neighbourhoods. For three months the police have found no clues to the murder of Hope Devane, psychology professor and controversial author of a pop-psych bestseller, an angry indictment of men. Now homicide detective Milo Sturgis, newly assigned to the case, turns to his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delaware, looking for insights into Devane's life.
To both men the cold stalking of Hope Devane suggests calculation fuelled by hate - an execution. They discover why as they unlock, one by one, the very private compartments of her life: her marriage, her shadowy work for a Beverly Hills clinic, the Conduct Committee she ran with an iron hand at the University, and her baffling link to another murder victim. But it is when Alex delves into her childhood that he begins to understand the formidable woman she was - and the ties that entangled her life until the horrifying act of betrayal that ended it.
Building to a white-knuckle climax in which Alex sets a trap for a killer, The Clinic is brilliantly plotted suspense as wrenchingly disturbing as today's headlines.
‘One of Kellerman's best… Couch-wise, does Kellerman know of what he speaks? Better than most. Trust him, he's a psychologist.’ The Literary Review
‘Alex Delaware is in cracking form in The Clinic. ‘ Scotland On Sunday - Ian Rankin
‘A slow burn that builds up speed as it sucks the reader in irresistibly, forcing us to turn those pages to a gruesome and tragic ending… Disconcerting and distressing, this is no glib and superficial thriller. It's anatomy of multiple murder that reveals how the past shapes the present in the saddest of ways.’ Val McDermid, Manchester Evening News

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First British Edition Little,Brown (1995)

The Web
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 house-guests, frightening nocturnal visitors, and the elusive Dr Moreland himself dim the pleasures of deep blue water and white sand.
The cases Moreland chooses to share - a patient driven to madness by a cruel, unspeakable act; a man who succumbed forty years ago to radiation poisoning after a nuclear blast; a young woman, brutally murdered, whose mutilated body was found on the beach just six months before - seem unconnected. And yet Alex can't help wondering what the good doctor is trying to tell him ... and what Moreland's real reason for inviting him to Aruk is.
As Alex probes - with a little long-distance help from his friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis - he comes to believe the answer lies hidden somewhere on Moreland's vast estate. Yet when he finally discovers the truth, the revelation will be more shocking than he could have imagined. And it will come too late to stem the tide of violence that threatens guilty and innocent alike on the lovely lost island of Aruk.
Once again, with his brilliant characterizations and rapid-fire pace, Jonathan Kellerman has redefined the boundaries of suspense, probing real-life horrors and innermost fears in a novel that transfixes from first page to last.
Critical acclaim for Bad Love
'Cat and mouse games between psychologist and serial killer, good twists and a wicked portrait of Hollywood and California mores make this a return to top form for Kellerman.' Time Out
'It moves at a satisfying pace and has enough "whodunnit" about it to keep the reader guessing in vain, even though the clues are there.’ The Times
'Kellerman is as reliable as they come.’ Mail on Sunday

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Paperback - Warner (1997)

Self-Defence
Dr Alex Delaware doesn’t see many private patients any more, but for a young woman called Lucy Lowell he’s prepared to make an exception. Referred to him by the police detective Milo Sturgis, Lucy had been a juror at the harrowing trial of a serial killer, and having survived that trauma is now being subjected to further emotional stress: a recurrent nightmare of a young child in a forest at night, watching something as furtive as it is disturbing.
Now Lucy’s dream is starting to disrupt her waking life, and Alex believes the power of the dream and its grip on her emotions may be a repressed childhood memory of something very real.
Something like murder ...
With its haunting images and riveting pace, Self-Defence is superb entertainment from today’s most darkly imaginative, consistently surprising author of psychological suspense.
`Simply too good to miss’ Stephen King
`A return to top form for Kellerman’ Time Out
‘Wholly absorbing’ Evening Standard
`Good fun all the way ... Kellerman designs his predictably unpredictable plots like expert crossword puzzles’ Observer

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