Monster : a novel / Jonathan Kellerman.
by Kellerman, Jonathan.
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BookPublisher: New York : Ballantine Books, c1999Description: 393 p. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 0345413873.Subject(s): Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Sturgis, Milo (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction | Mentally ill offenders -- Fiction | Serial murders -- Fiction | Psychologists -- Fiction | Psycholopaths -- Fiction | Los Angeles (Calif.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery stories. | Psychological fiction.Summary: A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk. Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent ramblings of an inmate at the presumably secure institution begin to make chilling sense--they are, in fact, horrifying predictions. Yet how can a barely functional psychotic locked behind asylum walls possibly know such vivid details of crimes committed in the outside world? Drawn into a labyrinth of secrets, revenge, sex, and manipulation, Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis set out to unlock this enigma and put an end to the brutal killings--before the madman predicts their own demise...
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A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk. Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent ramblings of an inmate at the presumably secure institution begin to make chilling sense--they are, in fact, horrifying predictions. Yet how can a barely functional psychotic locked behind asylum walls possibly know such vivid details of crimes committed in the outside world? Drawn into a labyrinth of secrets, revenge, sex, and manipulation, Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis set out to unlock this enigma and put an end to the brutal killings--before the madman predicts their own demise...
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