Book Preview Books by Jonathan Kellerman FICTION ALEX DELAWARE NOVELS Deception (2010) Survival of the Fittest (1997) Evidence (2009) The Clinic (1997) Bones (2008) The Web (1996) Compulsion (2008) Self-Defense (1995) Obsession (2007) Bad Love (1994) Gone (2006) Devil’s Waltz (1993) Rage (2005) Private Eyes (1992) Therapy (2004) Time Bomb (1990) A Cold Heart (2003) … Read more
Book Preview 1 Raging emotions, dead tissue. Polar opposites was the way Jeremy Carrier had always seen it. In a hospital setting, no two disciplines were less connected than psychology and pathology. As a practitioner of the former, Jeremy prided himself on an open mind; a good psychotherapist worked hard at avoiding stereotypes. But during … Read more
Book Preview CHAPTER 1 Kat loved breaking the rules. Don’t talk to strangers. She’d talked to plenty of them tonight. Danced with a few, too. If you could call the way those losers moved dancing. The big, scary consequence: a stomped toe, courtesy of a loser in a red shirt. Don’t go crazy mixing your … Read more
Book Preview Few murder streets are lovely. This one was. Elm-shaded, a softly curving stroll to the University, lined with generous haciendas and California colonials above lawns as unblemished as fresh billiard felt. Giant elms. Hope Devane had bled to death under one of them, a block from her home, on the southwest corner. I … Read more
Book Preview ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR MY SISTER’S KEEPER Special thanks to Chief Douglas N. Hambleton and Officer Joseph E. Okies, Jr., of the Berkeley Police Department; Detective Jesse Grant of the Oakland Police Department; and Dr. Mordecai and Rena Rosen. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR MY SISTER’S KEEPER Special thanks to Chief Douglas N. Hambleton and Officer Joseph E. … Read more
Book Preview Yaakov Schlesinger could think only of food. Idiot, he told himself. Immersed in such beauty and unable to take your mind off your belly. Unclipping his flashlight from his belt, he beamed it briefly on the southern gate of the campus. Satisfied that the lock was in place, he hitched up his trousers … Read more
Book Preview CHAPTER 1 Everyone does it is not a defense! Wrong. If everyone did it, that made it normal, right? And after Chance did the research he knew he did nothing wrong. Googling high school cheating because writing an essay was part of the punishment. Finding out four out of five high school students—that’s … Read more
Book Preview I SAT in the courtroom and watched Richard Moody get the bad news from the judge. Moody’d come dressed for the occasion in a chocolate polyester suit, canary yellow shirt, string tie, and lizard skin boots. He grimaced and bit his lip and tried to lock eyes with the judge, but she out … Read more
Book Preview 1 In the park you see things. But not what I saw tonight. God, God… I wanted to be dreaming but I was awake, smelling chili meat and onions and the pine trees. First, the car drove up to the edge of the parking lot. They got out and talked and he grabbed … Read more
Book Preview 1 It came in a plain brown wrapper. Padded envelope, book rate, book sized. I assumed it was an academic text I’d forgotten ordering. It went on to the mail table, along with Monday’s bills and announcements of scholarly seminars in Hawaii and St. Croix. I returned to the library and tried to … Read more
Book Preview 1 The witness remembers it like this: Shortly after 2 A.M., Baby Boy Lee exits the Snake Pit through the rear alley fire door. The light fixture above the door is set up for two bulbs, but one is missing, and the illumination that trickles down onto the garbage-flecked asphalt is feeble and … Read more
Book Preview FOUR DECADES OF detective work had taught Decker a thing or two. One of the delights of Missing Persons cases was that they often had happy endings. But sometimes not. Because people disappear for a variety of reasons. Some individuals vanished by accident: a wrong turn on a hiking trail or a rogue … Read more
Book Preview Because the murder had been kept “secret” for so long, it had taken on mythological proportions. Yet here was the proof, the tangible evidence that it really had happened. In the dead of night, in the privacy of her own home, Rina gingerly slit open the manila envelope postmarked from Munich and, with … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY FAYE KELLERMAN The Ritual Bath Sacred and Profane The Quality of Mercy Milk and Honey Day of Atonement False Prophet Grievous Sin Sanctuary Justice Prayers for the Dead Serpent’s Tooth Moon Music Jupiter’s Bones Stalker The Forgotten Stone Kiss Street Dreams Double Homicide (with Jonathan Kellerman) ALSO BY FAYE KELLERMAN Double … Read more
Book Preview I am very pleased to be part of eBooks and the twenty-first century. For many years, I resisted being part of the web, happily pounding out my books on an old IBM double drive DOS system computer. I still have it somewhere and I’m sure it works just fine. In the changeable world … Read more
Book Preview It should have happened at night, in a secluded corner of a dimly lit parking lot. Instead, it occurred at one twenty-five in the afternoon. Farin knew the time because she had peeked through the car window, gla ncing at the clock in her Volvo — purportedly one of the safest cars on … Read more
Book Preview The call was a surprise; the reason behind it even more so. Though Rina had known Honey Klein née Hersh for years — the two girls had been classmates — she had never considered her a close friend. Their small Orthodox high school had had a student body of eighty-seven at the time … Read more
Book Preview You can keep your white Christmas, thought Decker dreamily, as sunlight blanketed his prone frame. Give me December in L.A. anytime. Currier and Ives snowscapes looked swell on wrapping paper, but as far as he was concerned, icy Christmas winters were best left to penguins and polar bears. Besides, he wasn’t really sure … Read more