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Subtitle: An Alex Delaware Novel [#13]
By: [by] Jonathan Kellerman
Edition: First Ballantine Books Canadian Ed. Sep '00
Series: Ballantine Books: An Alex Delaware Novel (#13) [11.99 Can]
Publisher: Ballantine Publishing Group, a div. of Random House, Inc.
Published: September 2000
Place of publication: New York, USA; Toronto, Canada
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780345441720
Copyright date: 2000 by Jonathan Kellerman (Excerpt from Dr. Death by Jonathan Kellerman); 1999 by Jonathan Kellerman
Subjects: FIC; FIC000000; General; Fiction
First sentence: THE GIANT KNEW Richard Nixion.
Description: Alex Delaware is back! With a riveting and devilishly ingenious story about an asylum inmate who seems able to predict grisly slayings in the outside world. How can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up in a supposedly secure institution for homicidal madmen predict brutal murders in the outside world?This is the enigma that Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis must penetrate in order to stop these horrific killings.

First, a marginal actor is found dead in a car trunk, sawn in half. Months later, a psychologist at Starkweather Hospital for the Criminally Insane is discovered murdered and mutilated in a tantalizingly similar way. Dr. Claire Argent has been working caringly with Ardis Peake, a mental patient locked up for decades after he annihilated his mother and the ranching family that rescued him from homelessness.

 When reports of Peake's incoherent ramblings begin to make frightening sense as predictions of yet more murders, Delaware and Sturgis are drawn into a web of family secrets, vengeance, and manipulation - inside Starkweather and on the streets of L.A., where death, drugs, and sex are marketed as commodities.

The climactic disco.
Notes: ***Manufactured in the United States of America* / Published simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Ltd., Toronto. / This edition by arrangement with Random House, Inc. /**