Flesh and Blood: An Alex Delaware Novel-Fast Shipping

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Perennial bestseller and acknowledged master of the psychological thriller, JonathanKellerman has created a riveting and memorable Alex Delawarenovel about a troubled and elusive young woman whose brutal murder forces the brilliantpsychologist-detective to confront his own fallibility.

Lauren Teague is a beautiful,defiant, borderline-delinquent teenager when her parents bring her to Alex Delaware’soffice. But for all Alex’s skill and effort, Lauren resists—angrily, , the psychologist chalks Lauren up as one of the inevitable failuresof a challenging profession. But years later, when Alex encounters Lauren as a stagparty’s featured entertainment, both doctor and patient are sticken with shame. Andthe ultimate horror takes place when, soon after, Lauren’s brutalized corpse is founddumped in an alley. Alex disregards the advice of his trusted friend, LAPD detectiveMilo Sturgis, and jeopardizes his relationship with longtime lover, Robin Castagna,in order to pursue Lauren’s murderer. As he investigates his young patient’s troubledpast, Alex enters the shadowy worlds of fringe psychological experimentation andthe sex industry, and then into mortal danger when lust and big money collide inSouthern California.

Jonathan Kellerman’s L.A. is evil, seductive, and unforgiving,and Flesh and Blood is mind-opening in its drama of a driven man’s personal quest,breathtaking in its ingenious plot, filled with unforgettable characters, and toppedoff by a terrifying climax. This is suspense fiction at its finest.