Alex Delaware novels
Author
2) Blood Test
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 2
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
It is a case unlike any psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware has ever encountered. Five-year-old Woody Swope is ill, but the real problem is his parents. They refuse to agree to the one treatment that could save this boy's life.
Alex sets out to convince Mr. and Mrs. Swope—only to find that the parents have left the hospital and taken their son with them. Worse, the sleazy motel room where the Swopes were staying is empty—except for the ominous bloodstain....
Alex sets out to convince Mr. and Mrs. Swope—only to find that the parents have left the hospital and taken their son with them. Worse, the sleazy motel room where the Swopes were staying is empty—except for the ominous bloodstain....
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Ballantine Books premium mass market ed.
Physical Desc
529 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Delaware psychologist's attempts to trace the origins of a former patient's breakdown place him at the hub of the investigation into a string of vicious serial murders.
4)
Silent partner , Alex Delaware novels volume 4
Author
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1990
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
752 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
6) Private eyes
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 6
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Ballantine Books ed.
Physical Desc
525 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
The voice belongs to a woman, but Dr. Alex Delaware remembers a little girl. it is eleven years since seven-year-old Melissa Dickinson dialed the hospital help line for comfort-and found it in therapy with Alex Delaware. Now the lovely young heiress is desperately calling for the psychologist's help once more. Only this time it looks like Melissa's deepest childhood nightmare is really coming true.
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 7
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
642 pages (large print) ; 25 cm
Language
English
8) Bad love
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 8
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
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Description
It came in a plain brown wrapper, no return address -- an audiocassette recording of a horrifying, soul-lacerating scream, followed by the sound of a childlike voice delivering the enigmatic and haunting message: "Bad love. Bad love. Don't give me the bad love ..." For Alex Delaware, the chant, repeated over and over like a twisted nursery rhyme, is the first intimation that he is about to enter a living nightmare. Others soon follow: disquieting...
9) Self-defense
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 9
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
511 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
10) The web
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 10
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
11) The clinic
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 11
Language
English
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Description
For three months, the police find no clues in the stabbing death of Hope Devane, the author of a pop-psychology bestseller. So they turn to Dr. Alex Delaware to study the case for insights that might point to a killer. As Alex unlocks the private compartments of Hope's life, the murder looks calculated and vengeful. A study of her childhood reveals that she kept secrets from everyone. It also helps Alex set a trap for the killer."Kellerman mines new...
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 12
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware confronts an almost unimaginably cruel, arrogant and obsessed killer after the slightly retarded daughter of a diplomat is murdered on a school field trip.
13) Monster: a novel
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex Delaware is back! And in Jonathan Kellerman's riveting and ingenious new novel, Monster, he 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.
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14) Dr. Death
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 14
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
2008 Ballantine Books premium mass market edition.
Physical Desc
473 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Someone has murdered euthanasia champion Dr. Eldon Mate - a self-styled Dr. Death responsible for scores of assisted suicides. In a burst of bloody irony, the killer chooses to dispatch the doctor in the back of his own suicide van, hooking Mate up to the killing apparatus dubbed the "humanitron"--And adding some butchering touches of his own. The case is assigned to veteran LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis, who turns, once again, to his friend...
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 15
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
16) The murder book
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 16
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Los Angeles psychologist and sleuth Alex Delaware becomes embroiled in a long-unsolved case of brutal murder, he finds his own life and that of his longtime friend, homicide detective Milo Sturgis, at stake.
17) A cold heart
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 17
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's Guilt.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis summons his friend psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware to a trendy gallery where a promising young artist has been brutally garroted on the night of her first major showing. The details of the murder scene immediately suggest to Alex not an impulsive crime of passion but...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis summons his friend psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware to a trendy gallery where a promising young artist has been brutally garroted on the night of her first major showing. The details of the murder scene immediately suggest to Alex not an impulsive crime of passion but...
18) Therapy
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 18
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
19) Rage
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 19
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
365 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Psychologist Alex Delaware is stunned when Rand Duchay, a patient whom he has been treating since his release from prison, asks for a meeting to confide a dangerous secret to him, only to turn up dead before their arranged rendezvous.
20) Gone
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 20
Language
English
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Description
Psychologist Alex Delaware and L.A.P.D. detective Milo Sturgis investigate the bizarre case of two students whose claims of abduction are revealed to be a hoax, a case that takes an odd turn when one student is found murdered and the other vanishes.
21) Obsession
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 21
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
347 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
22) Compulsion
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 22
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate highway disappears into the inky black night. A retired schoolteacher is stabbed to death in broad daylight. Two women are butchered after closing time in a small-town beauty parlor. These and other bizarre acts of cruelty and psychopathology are linked only by the killer's use of luxury vehicles and a baffling lack of motive. Now Delaware and Sturgis must track down the killer.
23) Bones
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 23
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
When an anonymous tip leads to the skeletal remains of victims whose right hands have been removed and a box containing six human hands, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis calls in Alex Delaware, whose investigation takes them to a reclusive tycoon's mansion.
24) Evidence
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 24
Language
English
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Description
Veteran homicide cop Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles as they investigate the gruesome death of a young couple-murdered in flagrante--the man identified as a notorious womanizer and eco-friendly architect, the woman unidentified--in this unforgettable tale spiced with eco-terrorism, arson, blackmail, conspiracy, and a vendetta that runs deep.
25) Deception
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 25
Language
English
Description
Homicide detective Milo Sturgis and psychologist Alex Delaware probe the hallowed halls of Windsor Prep Academy, one of L.A.'s most prestigious prep schools, searching for the killers of a murdered woman.
26) Mystery
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 26
Language
English
Description
Psychologist Alex Delaware and his girlfriend Robin are making a farewell visit to an LA hotel bar when one patron in particular grabs their attention -- a beautiful but aloof young woman dressed all in white. Two days later, Alex is called in on a murder case and is shocked when he recognizes the victim as the woman in white.
27) Victims
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 27
Language
English
Description
Unraveling the madness behind L.A.'s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. By all accounts, acid-tongued Vita Berlin hadn't a friend in the world, but whom did she cross so badly as to end up arranged in such a grotesque tableau? One look at her apartment-turned-charnel house prompts hard-bitten LAPD detective Milo Sturgis to summon his go-to expert in hunting homicidal maniacs, Alex Delaware. But...
28) Guilt
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 28
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
A series of horrifying events occur in quick succession in the same upscale L.A. neighborhood. A backyard renovation unearths an infant's body, buried sixty years ago. And soon thereafter in a nearby park, another disturbingly bizarre discovery is made not far from the body of a young woman shot in the head. Helping LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to link these eerie incidents is brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But even the good doctor's...
29) Killer
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 29
Language
English
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Description
"Well-used to elevated emotions, psychologist Alex Delaware shrugs off a joking death threat from beautiful Beverly Hills physician Constance Sykes, whose attempt to secure legal custody of her baby niece is thwarted by Alex's forthright report to the court. Alex plays down the threat until LAPD's Milo Sturgis rushes to his side with the shocking word on the street that a hit's been taken out on him. But while Alex may be in grave danger, it won't...
30) Motive
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 30
Language
English
Description
"A much loved woman's dead body is found in her apartment, victim of horrendous overkill even as her dining room table is perfectly set for a romantic dinner. Turns out her devoted boyfriend has an alibi and, with few clues leading to a suspect, LAPD's Lieutenant Milo Sturgis calls in psychologist Alex Delaware for help. Then another woman's shot execution style; three bullets in the back of her head leave her husband with a profitable business. He's...
31) Breakdown
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 31
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman has been universally hailed as the master of psychological suspense, and the blockbuster new thriller featuring Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis confirms his status as today's preeminent practitioner of saber-sharp storytelling. Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware meets beautiful and emotionally fragile TV actress Zelda Chase when called upon to evaluate her five-year-old son, Ovid. Years later, Alex is unexpectedly...
32) Heartbreak Hotel
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 32
Language
English
Description
"Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis investigate the murder of woman who led a long life full of dark secrets"--
33) Night moves
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 33
Language
English
Description
"An affluent family returns home from Sunday dinner only to find the murdered and brutalized corpse of a total stranger in their house. This baffling, twisted tale tests Alex and Milo to their intellectual and emotional limits"--
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 34
Language
English
Description
"LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a fine homicide detective, but when he needs to get into the mind of a killer, he leans on the expertise of his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. While Sturgis has a knack for piecing together the details of a crime, Delaware can decipher the darkest intents driving the most vicious of perpetrators. And there's no better place for the doctor's analytical skills to shine than a rowdy hall full...
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 35
Language
English
Description
"Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis struggle to make sense of a seemingly inexplicable massacre in this electrifying psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis has solved a lot of murder cases. On many of them--the ones he calls "different"--he taps the brain of brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. But neither Alex nor Milo are prepared for what they find on...
36) Serpentine
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 36
Language
English
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Description
"LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a master detective. He has a near-perfect solve rate and he's written his own rule book. Some of those successes the - toughest ones - have involved his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But Milo doesn't call Alex in unless cases are different. This murder warrants an immediate call. Milo's independence has been compromised as never before, as the department pressures him to cater to the...
37) City of the dead
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 37
Language
English
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Description
"Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis must uncover the connection between a brutally murdered psychologist and a victim they're unable to identify in this electrifying thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. Two burly movers are heading back into Los Angeles from the dusty wasteland of Ojai when they hit a man-a naked man who appears out of nowhere. Master detective Milo Sturgis is called to the scene and senses immediately...
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 38
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. It is that shadow world and the violence it breeds that draw brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling case of altruism gone wrong. On a superficially lovely morning a woman shows up for work with her usual enthusiasm. She's the newly hired personal assistant to a handsome,...
39) The ghost orchid
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Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 39
Language
English
Description
"Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis are faced with their most perplexing case yet when a double homicide investigation leads them to stolen identities and long-buried secrets worth killing for in this riveting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author"--
Los Angeles is a city of reinvention. Many come to start anew, to strike it big. Many kill the person they once were, the person they left behind. And in turn, someone...