Monster

An Alex Delaware Novel

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

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Alex Delaware faces one of the most grisly and baffling mysteries of his career: How can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up in a supposedly secure institution for homicidal madmen predict brutal murders in the outside world? Delaware and his friend and partner Detective Milo Sturgis must penetrate this enigma in order to stop the horrific killings.

A marginal actor is found dead in a car trunk, sawn in half. Months later, a psychologist at a hospital for the criminally insane is discovered murdered and mutilated in a tantalizingly similar way. When reports of an inmate's incoherent ramblings begin to make frightening sense as predictions of yet more slayings, Delaware and Sturgis are drawn into a web of family secrets, vengeance, and manipulation—both inside the asylum and on the streets of L.A., where death, drugs, and sex are marketed as commodities. The climactic discovery they make as they race to prevent more killings gives fresh and terrifying meaning to the concept of monstrosity.

Critic reviews

Praise for Jonathan Kellerman

"Kellerman doesn't just write psychological thrillers--he owns the genre."
--Detroit Free Press

Praise for the New York Times bestseller Billy Straight, by Jonathan Kellerman

"The title character is a noble creation: a kind of urban Huckleberry Finn. . . The writing is vivid, the suspense sustained, and Kellerman has arranged one final, exquisitely surprising plot twist to confound the complacent reader." --People

"Billy Straight is everything a thriller ought to be. The writing is excellent. The plotting is superior. The characters ring true. . . . A taut, compelling story." --USA Today

"Nobody evokes Los Angeles better than Jonathan Kellerman. . . . Riveting."
--Los Angeles Times

Loved it

I really enjoyed this book. Suspenseful and kept my interest until the end. On to the next book in the series.

One of the best of the series

As always, deep character enhancement, steady progression to the superlative end. As a re-read, still one of the best!

Not John Rubenstein.

The illustration of the book jacket said the narrator was John Rubenstein. Just not the truth. It's a Books on Tape version that wasn't edited well. Someone should have actually listened to it before releasing it. There are duplicate sentences in multiple places. Overall I am disappointed.

A VERY ENGAGING LISTEN

Loved this story. and really happy that Milo played a big part this time. probably my favorite so far.

Lots of repeated lines

This book has several times repeated the previous line in book. The editing is bad but the story is great.