Monster
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jonathan Kellerman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Sturgis, Milo (Fictitious character) -- Fiction; Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction; Mentally ill offenders -- Fiction; Serial murders -- Fiction; Psychologists -- Fiction; Psychopaths -- Fiction; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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.".

"A marginal actor is found dead in a car trunk, sawn in half. Months later, a psychologist at a hospital for the criminally insane is discovered murdered and mutilated in a similar way. When reports of an inmate's incoherent ramblings begin to make frightening sense as predictions of yet more slayings, Delaware and Sturgis are drawn into web of family secrets, vengeance, and manipulation - both inside the asylum and on the streets of L.A., where death, drugs, and sex are marketed as commodities.

The climactic discovery they make as they race to prevent more killings gives fresh and terrifying meaning to the concept of monstrosity."--BOOK JACKET.