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Bad Love

Blood Test

When the Bough Breaks

Paperback - Warner (1994)

Bad Love
Taut, penetrating, terrifying, Bad Love is vintage Kellerman.
It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address - a tape recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound of a childlike voice delivering the enigmatic and haunting message:
`Bad love. Bad love. Don’t give me the bad love...’
For child psychologist Dr Alex Delaware, the chant, repeated over and over like a twisted nursery rhyme, is the first intimation that he is about to enter a living nightmare. Others soon follow: disquieting laughter echoing over a phone line that suddenly goes dead, a chilling trespass outside his home, a sickening act of vandalism. A carefully orchestrated campaign of vague threats and intimidation rapidly builds to a crescendo as harassment turns to terror, mischief to madness. Searching his memory for the phrase `bad love’, Alex recalls a symposium he attended over a decade ago commemorating the work of Dr Andres de Bosch who ran a clinic for troubled adolescents. But when he tries to contact the other delegates, Alex discovers a seemingly random series of violent deaths amongst them.
As he delves deeper into the history of the clinic, the escalating pattern of violence becomes inescapably clear. And if Alex fails to decipher the twisted logic of the stalker’s mindgames, he will be the next to die.
`Simply too good to miss’ Stephen King

Paperback - Warner (1988)

Blood Test

`Family disputes are a cop’s most dreaded calls, for they are the most likely to erupt in violence that is murderously sudden, stunningly intense…’

Little Woody Swope was gravely ill. Treatment was possible, if painful. But his parents, members of a bizarre sect called the Touchers; threatened to take him out, of hospital. Then Woody was gone. So were the Swopes, leaving their motel suite heavily bloodstained.
Enter Alex Delaware, child psychologist, young, burned out and semi-retired. He and his LA cop friend Milo find a heap of suspects - an ageing ex-hippy doctor; a backcountry police chief; a male stripper; even Nona, Woody’s sister, a flame-haired Lolita with hate in her eyes and larceny in her soul.
But the truth was more bizarre than even Alex could have imagined . . . `Exciting . . . a tour de force’ New York Times `A relentlessly intelligent thriller’ Newsweek

Paperback - Warner (1996)

When the Bough Breaks
Winner of the Edgar Award
It began with a double murder: particularly vicious, particularly gruesome. There was only one witness: but little Melody Quinn can’t or won’t say a word. Which is where child psychologist Alex Delaware comes in - and takes the first step into a maelstrom of atrocities . . .
A breathtaking novel of the sewer of perversion and corruption lying below the glittering surface of California cool.
`A gruesome psychodrama of depravity and organised vice . . . assured skill and horripilating effect’ Observer
`Exceptionally exciting’ New York Times
`Ingenious and horrifying’ Sunday Times