Alex Delaware novels
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Alex Delaware novels volume 1
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Child psychologist Alex Delaware examines a disturbed young girl and uncovers proof of a brutal double murder, a child molester's grisly suicide, and a horrible forty-year old secret that continues to have an effect today.
2) Blood test
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Alex Delaware novels volume 2
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Doctors believe that they can successfully treat five-year-old cancer patient Woody Swope. But Woody's parents, members of a cult called "The Touchers", are not only refusing the treatment, they're also threatening to remove him from the hospital. Psychologist Alex Delaware is called in to talk the parents round. But before he can, the Swopes are gone and so is Woody.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 3
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When six young prostitutes are found strangled in Los Angeles, an investigation begins that takes the reader on a wild ride involving powerful families and close friends. Child-psychologist Alex Delaware has received a garbled, middle-of-the-night crisis call from an ex-patient. As Dr. Delaware becomes involved, he stumbles on a deep secret, one that has existed for over forty years. Along with detective Milo Sturgis, Delaware is about to find himself...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 4
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At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist, Alex encounters a face from his own past--Sharon Ransom, an exquisite, alluring lover who left him abruptly more than a decade earlier. Sharon now hints that she desperately needs help, but Alex evades her.
5) Time bomb
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Alex Delaware novels volume 5
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Edgar Award winner Jonathan Kellerman once more explores the corruption of California's golden coast and produces a novel of complex characterizations and nonstop suspense. By the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the school the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt. While the TV news crews feasted on the scene an Alex began his counseling sessions...
6) Private eyes
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Alex Delaware novels volume 6
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Twenty years after her actress mother, Gina, was irreparably scarred by a vengeful assailant, Melissa Dickson fears for her own and her mother's lives when the assailant is released from prison.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 7
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Dr. Alex Delaware goes to Western Pediatrics Hospital to help treat the mysterious illness of a child and gets involved with hospital politics and murder.
8) Bad love
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Alex Delaware novels volume 8
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Alex Delaware receives an audiocassette of a horrifying scream followed by a childlike voice saying "Bad love. Bad love. Don't give me the bad love. . ." What does it mean?
9) Self-defense
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Alex Delaware novels volume 9
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Lucy Lowell, a patient of psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware, has been having a recurring nightmare ever since she was a juror at the trial of a serial killer. Alex suspects that it is the repressed childhood memory of a real murder.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 10
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Psychologist Alex Delaware and his wife are invited to a remote island in the South Pacific to help a scientist organize his research files--three months in paradise, all expenses paid, that is until people start getting murdered. On discovering venomous cockroaches in their room, they know they are next.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 11
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A woman psychologist, famous for a book on human relations, is murdered in Los Angeles. The case is given to a two-man team, one a detective, the other a psychologist. The probe uncovers that for all her advice she was poor in her own human relations and made a lot of enemies.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 12
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The nightmare started with a single crime: the murder of 15-year-old Irit Carmeli, the daughter of the Israeli consul in Los Angeles. But within days it had become one of the darkest, most menacing cases of Alex Delaware's career: three young people dead with no apparent reason, and the only trait linking them is the fact that each has a disability. Driven to find the answers, Alex will work closely with his longtime friend Milo Sturgis of the LAPD,...
13) Monster: a novel
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Alex Delaware novels volume 13
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A woman doctor is murdered in Los Angeles, her death predicted by the mumbling of a killer while in a drugged state. But the killer is locked in an asylum; he therefore must have an accomplice on the outside. Forensic psychologist Alex Delaware investigates.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 14
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Someone has murdered euthanasia champion Dr. Eldon Mate in the back of his own suicide van. The case is assigned to veteran LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis, who turns once again to his friend Dr. Alex Delaware. But working this case raises a conflict of interest for Alex -- one so profound he can't even discuss it with Milo.
15) Flesh and blood
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Alex Delaware novels volume 15
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Lauren Teague is a beautiful, defiant, borderline delinquent teenager when her parents bring her to Dr. Alex Delaware's office. Lauren angrily resists Alex's help----and the psychologist is forced to chalk Lauren up as one of the inevitable failures of his profession. Years later, when Alex and Lauren come face-to-face in a shocking encounter, both doctor and patient are stricken with shame. But the ultimate horror takes place when, soon after, Lauren's...
16) The murder book
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Alex Delaware novels volume 16
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When Los Angeles psychologist and sleuth Alex Delaware becomes embroiled in a long-unsolved case of brutal murder, he finds his own life and that of his longtime friend, homicide detective Milo Sturgis, at stake.
17) A cold heart
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Alex Delaware novels volume 17
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Forensic psychologist-turned-sleuth Alex Delaware searches for a cold-blooded psychotic responsible for the brutal murders of a painter, a ballet dancer, a blues musician, a punk rock singer, and a concert pianist.
18) Therapy
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Alex Delaware novels volume 18
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Jonathan Kellerman has made the psychological thriller his own gripping province with his bestselling series of Alex Delaware novels. Now, Delaware's new adventure leads the sleuthing psychologist on a harrowing exploration into the realm he knows best: the human psyche, in all its complexity, mystery, and terrifying propensity for darkness. "Been a while since I had me a nice little whodunit," homicide detective Milo Sturgis tells Alex Delaware....
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Alex Delaware novels volume 19
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
558 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
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English
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Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he's emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need to talk once again with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comes to a brutal end, that conversation never takes place. Or has...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 20
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Random House Large Print in association with Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
579 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Los Angeles is full of actors. For psychologist Alex Delaware, finding out what's real and what's not is about to become a matter of life and horrific death...Called in to evaluate an aspiring actress accused - along with her boyfriend - of staging her own abduction, Alex is indifferent when the case seems to go nowhere. But then the girl is savagely murdered, and suddenly a straightforward script takes a decidedly unexpected turn. Dylan Meserve,...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 21
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Patty Bigelow had struggled under the burden of raising her sister's abandoned eight-year-old daughter, Tanya, 15 years earlier, but was determined to bring stability to the child's life. At one point she even sought out advice from child psychologist Alex Delaware. After Patty died, Tanya was left with a deathbed confession of murder echoing in her mind. Now, 'she' was the one seeking out Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis to find clues to...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 22
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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LAPD detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware must solve a series of murders involving the use of expensive black automobiles at the scene of the crimes. And what does a child missing for sixteen years have to do with their search for the perpetrator?
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Alex Delaware novels volume 23
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The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something ""real dead ... buried in your marsh."" The eco-volunteer on the other end of the phone thinks it's a prank, but when a young woman's body turns up in L.A.'s Bird Marsh preserve no one's laughing. And when the bones of more victims surface, homicide detective Milo Sturgis realizes the city's under siege to an insidious killer.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 24
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
629 p. : 22 cm.
Language
English
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Veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles as they investigate the gruesome death of a young couple-murdered in flagrante--the man identified as a notorious womanizer and eco-friendly architect, the woman unidentified--in this unforgettable tale spiced with eco-terrorism, arson, blackmail, conspiracy, and a vendetta that runs deep.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 25
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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Los Angeles homicide detective Milo Sturgis turns to his friend, psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware, for help when he is assigned to investigate the murder of Elise Freeman, a teacher at the prestigious Windsor Prep Academy, who left behind a DVD detailing the abuse she suffered at the hands of three sadistic colleagues.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 26
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Psychologist Alex Delaware and his girlfriend Robin are making a farewell visit to an LA hotel bar when one patron in particular grabs their attention -- a beautiful but aloof young woman dressed all in white. Two days later, Alex is called in on a murder case and is shocked when he recognizes the victim as the woman in white.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 27
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English
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"Unraveling the madness behind L.A.'s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. And putting the good doctor through his thrilling paces is what mystery fiction's #1 bestselling master of psychological suspense Jonathan Kellerman does with incomparable brilliance. Kellerman's universally acclaimed novels blend the addictive rhythms of the classic police procedural with chilling glimpses into the darkest...
28) Guilt
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Alex Delaware novels volume 28
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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A series of horrifying events occur in quick succession in the same upscale L.A. neighborhood. A backyard renovation unearths an infant's body, buried sixty years ago. And soon thereafter in a nearby park, another disturbingly bizarre discovery is made not far from the body of a young woman shot in the head. Helping LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to link these eerie incidents is brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But even the good doctor's...
29) Killer
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Alex Delaware novels volume 29
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English
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The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by Connie against her sister and begins to realize that there is...
30) Motive
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Alex Delaware novels volume 30
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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""A much loved woman's dead body is found in her apartment, victim of horrendous overkill even as her dining room table is perfectly set for a romantic dinner. Turns out her devoted boyfriend has an alibi and, with few clues leading to a suspect, LAPD's Lieutenant Milo Sturgis calls in psychologist Alex Delaware for help. Then another woman's shot execution style; three bullets in the back of her head leave her husband with a profitable business....
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Alex Delaware novels volume 31
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware meets beautiful and emotionally fragile TV actress Zelda Chase when called upon to evaluate her five-year-old son, Ovid. Years later, Alex is unexpectedly reunited with Zelda when she is involuntarily committed after a bizarre psychotic episode. Shortly after Zelda's release, an already sad situation turns tragic when she is discovered dead on the grounds of a palatial Bel Air estate. Having experienced more than enough...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 32
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis investigate the death of Alex's most mysterious patient to date in the sensational new thriller from the master of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman. At nearly one hundred years old, Thalia Mars is a far cry from the patients that child psychologist Alex Delaware normally treats. But the charming, witty woman convinces Alex to meet with her in a suite at the Aventura, a luxury hotel...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 33
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English
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"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 sign of a struggle, and, thanks to the victim's missing...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 34
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English
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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 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 his analytical skills to shine than a rowdy hall full of young men...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 35
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English
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"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...
36) Serpentine
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Alex Delaware novels volume 36
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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"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...
37) City of the dead
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Alex Delaware novels volume 37
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Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis must uncover the connection between a brutally murdered psychologist and a victim they're unable to identify in this electrifying thriller ... Two burly movers are heading back into Los Angeles from the dusty wasteland of Ojai when they hit a man--a naked man who appears out of nowhere. Master detective Milo Sturgis is called to the scene and senses immediately that something is amiss. As the Tesla-driving...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 38
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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"Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. It is that shadow world and the violence it breeds that draw brilliant psychologist 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,...
39) The ghost orchid
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Alex Delaware novels volume 39
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English
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"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...