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When a shrewish, combative woman named Vita Verlin is murdered, L.A. homicide detective Milo Sturgis is called to the scene. When he sees that the victim has been ritualistically disemboweled, he calls in his friend, psychologist Alex Delaware, to consult. Alex and Milo have been working together through twenty-seven books, spanning a period of nearly thirty years, and this is the most gruesome case they've ever seen.There's certainly no shortage of suspects. The victim apparently didn't have a
A satisfactory read; tempted to 4-star-stamp it as a decent page-turner~ until the last 1/5 of book, which contained too many mistakes for this lay person to overlook.Although many reviewers note too much familiarity re main characters, its comfort reading for me. The longstanding camaraderie between Alex and Milo makes the storyline flow. Robin and Rick were not really involved; fine by me, since they are low on my appreciation list. Plenty of gory crime scenes for even the hard core thriller a...
"Keep your goals specific and realistic, be happy when anything goes well." This was a very dark book, a very twister crime scene and a lot of mystery. I think this is, so far, the best Jonathan Kellerman book I've read.In this case, former child psychologist and LAPD consultant Dr. Alex Delaware gets a call from Lt. Milo Sturgis informing him of a murder. The crime is unlike any other, as the victim, a woman named Vita Berlin, was disemboweled in her apartment. The killer left behind a note,
Alex Delaware is in for a particularly gruesome ride in this, the latest thriller from Jonathan Kellerman.As bodies keep turning up, all laid out neatly, tidily, but extremely dead, the only clue is an almost blank sheet of paper, and in the middle is a question mark... ? ...Detective Milo Sturgis has seen it all, or so he thought. The clock is ticking, the clues are few, and the bodies are mounting. Alex, criminal psychologist, and charged with helping the police read those clues, wonders if th...
**SPOILER ALERT**While just as riveting as some of his others-- the crime details that is -- this one falls flat for the aspects that are not concerned with the crime(s). For those of us dedicated to the series, there are unanswered questions. Are Milo and Rick no longer together? Why was Rick so obviously absent? Just a passing reference to his name and "surgery" in general. Milo makes a sandwich from ingredients that would have not been present in their refrigerator if Rick had been living wit...
I like Jonathan Kellerman books; I have read most of them (I believe this is #27 in the Alex Delaware series). It is with regret that I cannot give this one an effusively enthusiastic review. I read a couple other reviews where readers said things like "Kellerman must HATE Dr. Delaware and gay LA Police Detective, Milo, by now, but I still like them" and a review that suggested that Kellerman just phones them in now. I love the L.A. locations (because I live there now)but I did not find this nov...
Victims captivated me more the first time I read it, and that's totally normal as the plot unravels, for the first time, and we root for Milo and Alex to put a stop to the killings. This book brought more insight into the mechanism of how some mental institutions were run in the past.These days, I re-listen to the Jonathan Kellerman books in audio-format, first for their quality of story-telling by Kellerman, and as important, for the quality of nuanced narration by John Rubinstein. I know I'll
3.5 stars
Jonathan Kellerman's "Victims" is the 27th novel in his Alex Delaware series (coincidentally, it was written in 2012, the 27th year since the series had started). 27 books in a series is a ridiculously high number and the repetitiveness of the setup makes it impossible for the author to say anything new about the recurring characters. Apparently, many readers crave familiarity and come back to Alex and Milo for the same old stuff, reheated over and over again, like in TV sitcoms. It took me a wh...
There has always been a fair amount of gore in Kellerman’s books but this one in particular was particularly gruesome. Vita Berlin is a malicious and unpleasant woman whose eviscerated remains are found in her apartment. It is the start of a spate of killings where the level of violence shocks even hardened detectives from the LAPD and hints at a level of mental illness from the perpetrator.A link is discovered with a former state psychiatric hospital where a specialised care unit was set up, a
Well, here we are at #27 in this series, and everything is still the same. One of the reasons I like this series is that it is a solidly-written, formulaic police procedural. It's like watching "Law & Order: You Pick the Series." You know what you're going to get. In this series, we have broody, complicated child psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend, homicide cop Milo. Alex's minor character girlfriend, Robin, who is used by Kellerman so we readers can follow Alex's thought processes. (Dial...
Being a fan of Jonathan Kellerman I always look forward to the next Alex/ Milo case. I find the relationship between the two interesting and really like their witty interaction. And of course, reading more about the “noir” L.A. side. Victims, is the 27th book in the series…..wow…pretty amazing it’s been going for so long!!! I have to admit that this one just lacked something for me. The mystery, the crimes, the investigations, the grittiness, the build-up to solving the case is here,
If you're the type of reader who has to read every word and someone who doesn't like grotesque descriptions of people being disemboweled, you might want to skip this one. I know I barely saw a word in the first chapter.I've read this series from the beginning and they vary in gory content, from mild to overload. The tank is full in VICTIMS.Personally, while I don't normally do skip sections in my books, I found myself scanning over the gruesome details of the murders and focused instead on the c...