Джонатан Келлерман — новинки

People come to Los Angeles to chase their dreams. Sometimes they find themselves cast into a nightmare. And sometimes, the most ardent dreamers turn out to be the most vicious monsters.

The body of an aspiring actress is found dumped near a hospital emergency room. She’s been drugged and murdered and the motive for the callous crime remains maddeningly out of reach. Until, a prime suspect materializes. Another Hollywood hopeful. Only to be shot dead by a sniper using a weapon that turns out to have been catalogued in a previous murder. And another, before that. It’s not long before more bodies begin piling up.

What makes the murderous spree baffling is the apparent lack of connection among the victims. Is this the work of a random thrill killer, the toughest of all cases to unravel?

LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis sees it all the time: Reinvention’s a way of life in a city fueled by fantasy. But try as you might to erase the person you once were, there are those who will never forget the past . . . and who can still find you.

A pool boy enters a secluded Bel Air property and discovers two bodies floating in the bright blue water: Gio Aggiunta, the playboy heir to an Italian shoe empire, and a gorgeous, even wealthier neighbor named Meagin March. A married neighbor.

An illicit affair stoking rage is a perfect motive. But a “double” in this neighborhood of gated estates isn’t something you see every day. The house is untouched. No forced entry, no forensic evidence. The case has “that feeling,” and when that happens, Milo turns to his friend, the brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware.

As Milo and Alex investigate both victims, they discover two troubled pasts. And as they dig deeper, Meagin March’s very identity begins to blur. Who was this glamorous but conflicted woman? Did her past catch up to her? Or did Gio’s family connections create a threat spanning two continents?

Chasing down the answers leads Alex and Milo on an exploration of L.A.’s darkest side as they contend with one of the most shocking cases of their careers and learn that that some secrets are best left buried in the past.

Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. That shadow world and the violence it breeds draw brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling case of altruism gone wrong.

On a superficially lovely morning, a woman shows up for work with her usual enthusiasm. She’s the newly hired personal assistant to a handsome, wealthy photographer and is ready to greet her boss with coffee and good cheer. Instead, she finds him slumped in bed, shot to death.

The victim had recently received rave media attention for his latest project: images of homeless people in their personal “dream” situations, elaborately costumed and enacting unfulfilled fantasies. There are some, however, who view the whole thing as nothing more than crass exploitation, citing token payments and the victim’s avoidance of any long-term relationships with his subjects.

Has disgruntlement blossomed into homicidal rage? Or do the roots of violence reach down to the victim’s family—a clan, sired by an elusive billionaire, that is bizarre in its own right?

Then new murders arise, and Alex and Milo begin peeling back layer after layer of intrigue and complexity, culminating in one of the deadliest threats they’ve ever faced.

The electrifying new Alex Delaware thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.
At 5am in the upscale neighbourhood of Westwood Village, two removal men are making a routine pick-up when they make a fatal hit. It's a man - who appeared from nowhere - naked and with no means of identification.
Not long after, a woman is found dead in a house nearby, which neighbours suspect to be a brothel. Could the man have come from there?
When LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis calls brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware is called to the scene, the case gets even more complicated. Delaware has met the woman before. She's a psychologist too.
Are the two deaths linked? Or is there a darker force at work?

When a wealthy man is found murdered in his hilltop home, Deputy Coroner Clay Edison is shocked to discover a link to his own brother, Luke, on the scene.
Luke is fresh out of prison and struggling to stay on the right path. When he suddenly goes missing, Clay can't help but question his innocence.
As blackouts and wildfires continue to sweep through the state of California, the search for a

Los Angeles is a city of sunlight, celebrity, and possibility. The L.A. often experienced by Homicide Lt. Detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware, is a city of the dead.

Early one morning, the two of them find themselves in a neighborhood of pretty houses, pretty cars, and pretty people. The scene they encounter is anything but. A naked young man lies dead in the street, the apparent victim of a collision with a moving van hurtling through suburbia in the darkness. But any thoughts of accidental death vanish when a blood trail leads to a nearby home.

Inside, a young woman lies butchered. The identity of the male victim and his role in the horror remain elusive, but that of the woman creates additional questions. And adding to the shock, Alex has met her while working a convoluted child custody case. Cordelia Gannett was a self-styled internet influencer who’d gotten into legal troubles by palming herself off as a psychologist. Even after promising to desist, she’s found a loophole and has continued her online career, aiming to amass clicks and ads by cyber-coaching and cyber-counseling people plagued with relationship issues.

But upon closer examination, Alex and Milo discover that her own relationships are troublesome, including a tortured family history and a dubious personal past. Has that come back to haunt her in the worst way? Is the mystery man out in the street collateral damage or will he turn out to be the key to solving a grisly double homicide? As the psychologist and the detective explore L.A.'s meanest streets, they peel back layer after layer of secrets and encounter a savage, psychologically twisted, almost unthinkable motive for violence and bloodshed.

This is classic Delaware: Alex, a man Milo has come to see as irreplaceable, at his most insightful and brilliant.

A Detective under Pressure
Deputy Coroner Clay Edison is juggling a new baby who won't sleep with working the graveyard shift. For once he's trying to keep things simple.
A Haunting Discovery
When infant remains are found by developers demolishing a local park, a devastating cold case is brought back to light.
A Desperate Search for Answers
Clay has barely begun to investigate when he receives a call from a man who thinks the remains could belong to his sister - who went missing fifty years ago. Now Clay is locked in a relentless search that will unearth a web of violence, secrets and betrayal.
Because in this town, the past isn't dead. It's very much alive. And it can kill.

LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a master detective. He has a near-perfect solve rate and he’s written his own rule book. Some of those successes—the toughest ones—have involved his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But Milo doesn’t call Alex in unless cases are “different.”
This murder warrants an immediate call. Milo’s independence has been compromised as never before, as the department pressures him to cater to the demands of a mogul: a hard-to-fathom, megarich young woman who is obsessed with reopening the coldest of cases—the decades-old death of the mother she never knew.

The facts describe a likely loser: a mysterious woman found with a bullet in her head in a torched Cadillac that has overturned on infamously treacherous Mulholland Drive. No physical evidence, no witnesses, no apparent motive. And a slew of detectives have already worked the case and failed. But as Delaware and Sturgis begin digging, the mist begins to lift. Too many coincidences. Facts turn out to be anything but. And as they soon discover, very real threats lurking in the present.

This is Delaware/Sturgis at their best: traversing the beautiful but forbidding place known as Los Angeles and exhuming the past in order to bring a vicious killer to justice.

LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis has solved a lot of murder cases. On many of them—the ones he calls “different”—he taps the brain of brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. But neither Alex nor Milo are prepared for what they find on an early morning call to a deserted mansion in Bel Air. This one’s beyond different. This is predation, premeditation, and cruelty on a whole new level.

Four people have been slaughtered and left displayed bizarrely and horrifically in a stretch limousine. Confounding the investigation, none of the victims seems to have any connection to any other, and a variety of methods have been used to dispatch them. As Alex and Milo make their way through blind alleys and mazes baited with misdirection, they encounter a crime so vicious that it stretches the definitions of evil.

Пятилетний Вуди опасно, смертельно болен. Но его родители не приемлют современной медицины и не дают спасти мальчика. Психолог Алекс Делавэр берется их переубедить. Cлишком поздно — они выкрали ребенка из больницы и исчезли в сумраке городских джунглей. Осталось лишь жуткое кровавое пятно в номере убогого мотеля… Чтобы найти Вуди, которому не выжить без должного ухода, Алекс и его друг, детектив Майло Стёрджис, вынуждены погрузиться в подпольный мир больных фантазий и извращенного секса, где за грязные удовольствия платят чем угодно, даже жизнью маленького мальчика…

Именно с этого романа началась серия книг о докторе Алексе Делавэре и лейтенанте Майло Стёрджисе. Джонатан Келлерман – один из самых популярных в мире писателей детективов и триллеров. Свой опыт в области клинической психологии он вложил в более чем 40 романов, каждый из которых становился бестселлером New York Times. Практикующий психотерапевт и профессор клинической педиатрии, он также автор ряда научных статей и трехтомного учебника по психологии. Лауреат многих литературных премий. Лос-Анджелес. Бойня. Убиты известный психолог и его любовница. Улик нет. Подозреваемых нет. Есть только маленькая девочка, живущая по соседству.…

Джонатан Келлерман – один из самых популярных в мире писателей детективов и триллеров. Свой опыт в области клинической психологии он вложил в более чем 40 романов, каждый из которых становился бестселлером New York Times. Практикующий психотерапевт и профессор клинической педиатрии, он также автор ряда научных статей и трехтомного учебника по психологии. Лауреат многих литературных премий.

Отчаянный зов на помощь остался неуслышанным. Учительница Элиза Фриман была найдена в своей ванной, заполненной сухим льдом. А рядом лежал диск с видеозаписью ее гневного обличения своих обидчиков – троих коллег по колледжу, постоянно домогавшихся до нее. Но обстоятельства смерти Элизы выглядели настолько странно, что шеф полиции Лос-Анджелеса сразу передал дело лучшей паре сыщиков – лейтенанту Майло Стёрджису и психологу Алексу Делавэру. И намекнул, что более секретного расследования у них еще не было…

ONE NIGHT OF HEDONISM. FOUR COUNTS OF MURDER.

A run-down mansion nestled between Beverley Hills and the San Fernando Valley is leased out for one night to house a party big enough to herald the end of days.

When a limo is discovered in the grounds of the house the morning after with four dead bodies inside, a mind-bending case begins.

With no link between the four people in the car, and each of the victims murdered in a different way, psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis are about to begin their grisliest and most baffling case yet.

And as they struggle to make sense of the vicious mass slaying, they will be forced to confront a level of lust and evil for which their combined wisdom can provide no preparation.

LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a fine homicide detective, but when he needs to get into the mind of a killer, he leans on the expertise of his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. While Sturgis has a knack for piecing together the details of a crime, Delaware can decipher the darkest intents driving the most vicious of perpetrators. And there’s no better place for the doctor’s analytical skills to shine than a rowdy hall full of young men and women intoxicated on life and lust . . . and suddenly faced with the specter of death.

Summoned to a run-down former strip joint, Delaware and Sturgis find themselves crashing a wild Saints and Sinners–themed wedding reception. But they’re not the only uninvited guests. A horrified bridesmaid has discovered the body of a young woman, dressed to impress in pricey haute couture and accessorized with a grisly red slash around her neck. What’s missing is any means of identification, or a single partygoer who recognizes the victim. The baffled bride is convinced the stranger snuck in to sabotage her big day—and the groom is sure it’s all a dreadful mistake. But Delaware and Sturgis have a hundred guests to question, and a sneaking suspicion that the motive for murder is personal. Now they must separate the sinners from the saints, the true from the false, and the secrets from those keeping them. The party’s over—and the hunt for whoever killed it is on.

The electrifying new Alex Delaware thriller from global bestseller Jonathan Kellerman. First comes love...then comes murder.

In the middle of a 'Saints and Sinners' themed wedding, a bridesmaid finds a young woman's corpse collapsed in the bathroom. None of the wedding guests claim to know the well-dressed victim but psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis aren't so convinced.

Джонатан Келлерман — один из самых популярных в мире писателей детективов и триллеров. Свой опыт в области клинической психологии он вложил в более чем 40 романов, каждый из которых становился бестселлером New York Times. Практикующий психотерапевт и профессор клинической педиатрии, он также автор ряда научных статей и трехтомного учебника по психологии. Лауреат многих литературных премий. Несколько лет назад доктор Алекс Делавэр наблюдал маленького сына известной голливудской актрисы. А недавно мертвое тело бывшей звезды сериалов, опустившейся и всеми забытой, было найдено во дворе чужого роскошного особняка. Оказывается, последние годы она бомжевала. Алекс очень переживает за судьбу ее сына. Но мальчик бесследно исчез. Чтобы отыскать его, нужно сперва изучить историю матери. А история эта оказалась запутанным и страшным пазлом…

«Познания Келлермана в области психологии и его темное воображение - мощная литературная смесь». - Los Angeles Times «Эти психолог и коп - самый оригинальный детективный дуэт со времен Холмса и Ватсона». - Forbes Джонатан Келлерман - один из самых популярных в мире писателей детективов и триллеров. Свой опыт в области клинической психологии он вложил в более чем 40 романов, каждый из которых становился бестселлером New York Times. Практикующий психотерапевт и профессор клинической педиатрии, он также автор ряда научных статей и трехтомного учебника по психологии. Лауреат многих литературных премий. Между убитыми нет ничего общего. Скромная бухгалтерша и любвеобильная разведенка, сколотившая приличное состояние на азиатском ширпотребе. Но обеих постигла одна и та же участь: изысканная предсмертная трапеза и жестокая гибель. Чутье детектива Майло Стёрджиса и психолога Алекса Делавэра подсказывает - это извращенный почерк нового серийного убийцы…

В Лос-Анджелесе - Городе Ангелов - полным-полно психопатов; блестящему психологу и полицейскому консультанту доктору Алексу Делавэру это хорошо известно. И он, как никто, умеет определять их, выделять из общей массы людей. Но, столкнувшись с делом Конни Сайкс, успешного и уважаемого врача, добивающейся через суд опеки над маленькой дочерью своей родной сестры, Алексу начинает казаться, что, возможно, до сих пор он вообще не понимал людей. Внезапно перед ним разверзлась чудовищная бездна человеческой жадности, беспринципности, жестокости - и безумия…
Келлерман не просто пишет психологические триллеры - он хозяин этого жанра…
Detroit Free Press

Even with all his years of experience, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis knows there are crimes his skill and savvy cannot solve alone. That’s when he calls on brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware to read between the lines, where the darkest motives lurk. And if ever the good doctor’s insight is needed, it’s at the scene of a murder as baffling as it is brutal.

There’s no spilled blood, no evidence of a struggle, and, thanks to the victim’s missing face and hands, no immediate means of identification. And no telling why the disfigured corpse of a stranger has appeared in an upscale L.A. family’s home. Chet Corvin, his wife, and their two teenage children are certain the John Doe is unknown to them. Despite that, their cooperation seems guarded. And that’s more than Milo and Alex can elicit from the Corvins’ creepy next-door neighbor—a notorious cartoonist with a warped sense of humor and a seriously antisocial attitude.

As the investigation ensues, it becomes clear that this well-to-do suburban enclave has its share of curious eyes, suspicious minds, and loose lips. And as Milo tightens the screws on potential persons of interest—and Alex tries to breach the barriers that guard their deepest secrets—a strangling web of corrupted love, cold-blooded greed, and shattered trust is exposed. Though the grass may be greener on these privileged streets, there’s enough dirt below the surface to bury a multitude of sins. Including the deadliest.

Между убитыми нет ничего общего. Скромная бухгалтерша и любвеобильная разведенка, сколотившая приличное состояние на азиатском ширпотребе. Но обеих постигла одна и та же участь: изысканная предсмертная трапеза и жестокая гибель. Чутье детектива Майло Стёрджиса и психолога Алекса Делавэра подсказывает – это извращенный почерк нового серийного убийцы…