Book Preview The house, the life growing inside her. Holly finished her fifth circuit of the back room that looked out to the yard. She paused for breath. The baby—Aimee—had started pushing against her diaphragm. Since escrow had closed, Holly had done a hundred circuits, imagining. Loving every inch of the place despite the odors … Read more
Book Preview CHAPTER 1 She nearly killed an innocent man. *** Creighton “Charley” Bondurant drove carefully because his life depended on it. Latigo Canyon was mile after mile of neck-wrenching, hairpin twists. Charley had no use for government meddlers but the 15 mph signs posted along the road were smart. He lived ten … Read more
Book Preview CHAPTER 1 SAD TRUTH: Had she been just a patient, I probably wouldn’t have remembered her. All those years listening, so many faces. There was a time I recalled every one of them. Forgetting comes with experience. It doesn’t bother me as much as it used to. Her mother phoned my service on … Read more
Book Preview I tell the truth. They lie. I’m strong. They’re weak. I’m good. They’re bad. I tell the truth. They lie. I’m strong. They’re weak. I’m good. They’re bad. This was a zero job but Doyle was getting paid. Why anyone would shell out fifteen bucks an hour, three hours a day, five times … Read more
Book Preview CHAPTER 1 IRONY CAN BE a rich dessert, so when the contents of the van were publicized, some people gorged. The ones who’d believed Eldon H. Mate to be the Angel of Death. Those who’d considered him Mercy Personified grieved. I viewed it through a different lens, had my own worries. Mate … Read more
Book Preview BOOKS BY JONATHAN KELLERMAN FICTION Therapy The Conspiracy Club A Cold Heart The Murder Book Flesh and Blood Dr. Death Monster Billy Straight Survival of the Fittest The Clinic The Web Self-defense Bad Love Devil’s Waltz Private Eyes Time Bomb Silent Partner The Butcher’s Theater Over the Edge Blood Test When the Bough … Read more
Book Preview It was a place of fear and myth, home of miracles and the worst kind of failure. I’d spent a quarter of my life there, learning to deal with the rhythm, the madness, the starched whiteness of it all. Five years’ absence had turned me into a stranger, and as I entered the … Read more
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