Early Reviewers

A gripping psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author who "owns the genre" (Detroit Free Press)--Jonathan Kellerman delivers a new fast-paced tale featuring the ever fascinating psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware. Despite the myriad of passionate enemies made while she was alive, when acid-tongued Vita Berlin is discovered brutally murdered in her apartment, psychologist Alex Delaware doubts the grisly act was one of revenge. LAPD's Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is skeptical until a second murder victim shows up, dispatched identically to Vita but with no apparent connection to her. When the list of victims grows, Alex and Milo must face the horrible possibility that a cunning killer has established a malevolent killing pattern based on no pattern at all, selecting random prey, stalking with serenity, then striking without warning. While Milo feels intense pressure from above to bring this shocking opera of blood to its final act, Alex embarks upon a one-man excavation, unearthing a host of tantalizing clues. When the shocking truth is at last confronted, it is even more deeply, darkly chilling than Alex could ever have anticipated.