Jonathan Kellerman

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Jonathan Kellerman

Billy Straight

15 Sep 02

Flesh and Blood

Dr Death

by Jonathan Kellerman

About the Author (Photo (c) Jonathan Exley)

Bibliography

Audio Tape ISIS (2002)

Billy Straight
A young boy witnesses a murder but who will find him first - the cops or 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. Suspicion at once falls on the millionaire actor but this is L. A., home of media frenzy and O. J. Simpson, and the brass at the 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 on him, only Petra realises the peril in which this child has been placed.
Jeff Harding was born in Massachusetts, U.S.A.
He has worked extensively in television, with recent roles in The Fast Show and Trail of Guilt. Jeff also played Father Buzz Cagney in Father Ted. Jeff has appeared in feature films including Tomorrow Never Dies.
Unabridged: 12 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 16 hrs

Audio Tape - ISIS (2002)

Flesh and Blood
Sometimes home is the last place you want to go.
When Alex Delaware first saw Lauren Teague she was a sullen teenager with the usual problems: bad grades at school, moody, uncommunicative with her parents - which is why they thought she needed to see a psychologist. Years later, at a bachelor party for a colleague, Delaware finds himself uncomfortably watching two strippers performing a degrading display - one of them is Lauren Teague.
And now Lauren’s mother is pleading for Delaware’s help once again. Lauren has disappeared - and she thinks that he can find her. He’s not so sure, but when Lauren’s disappearance turns into a murder investigation, he knows that he owes it to the dead girl to find out what demons drove her to such a horrifying end.
Jeff Harding was born in Massachusetts, U.S.A.
He has worked extensively in television, with recent roles in The Fast Show and Trail of Guilt. Jeff also played Father Buzz Cagney in Father Ted. Jeff has appeared in feature films including Tomorrow Never Dies.
Unabridged: 10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 12 hrs 20 mins

Audio Tape ISIS (2001)

Dr Death
When Eldon Mate, medical buraucrat turned self-proclaimed mercy killer, is the victim of a grisly Hollywood Hills slaying - hooked up to the macabre "Humanitron" with which he has despatched dozens of people - veteran cop Milo Sturgis is assigned to the case. Baffled, Milo consults his friend, psychologist Alex Delaware, who realises quickly that lack of suspects is not the problem - there are many who might want the controversial Mate dead: those whose beliefs cause them to see the "Angel of Death" as the devil incarnate, a disgruntled relative of one of Mate’s "travellers" or, as a shadowy FBI agent suggests, even a homicidal psychopath. Furthermore, Mate’s lawyer has disappeared and the death doctor’s mentally unstable son has been hanging around.
Praise for Jonathan Kellerman
'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 Jeff Harding was born in Massachusetts, U.S.A.
He has worked extensively in television, with recent roles in The Fast Show and Trail of Guilt. Jeff also played Father Buzz Cagney in Father Ted. Jeff has appeared in feature films including Tomorrow Never Dies.
Unabridged: 8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 15 mins

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.

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

Billy Straight (ISIS, 2002) Sep 02

Flesh and Blood (ISIS, 2002) (Alex Delaware)

Dr Death (ISIS, 2001) (Alex Delaware)