Jonathan Kellerman: Flesh and Blood (UK 2009) From the Publisher: '[Kellerman] has shaped the psychological mystery novel into an art form' Los Angeles Times Book Review When Alex Delaware first saw Lauren Teague she was a sullen teenager with the usual problems: bad grades at school, moody, uncommunicative with her parents -- which is why they thought she needed to see a psychologist. Then years later, a shock: at a batchelor party for a fellow doctor, Delaware finds himself uncomfortably watching two strippers going through a degrading display -- and one of them is Lauren Teague. And now her mother is pleading for help once again: Lauren has disappeared -- and she thinks Delaware can find her. He's not so sure -- but when her disappearance turns into a murder investigation, he knows he owes it to the dead girl to find out what demons drove her to such a horrifying end... Jonathan Kellerman: Flesh and Blood. An Alex Delaware Thriller. Headline, ISBN: 9780747265009 (June, 2009), 439 p., £7.99.
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Jonathan Kellerman: Flesh and Blood (USA 2002) From the Publisher: Lauren Teague is a beautiful, defiant, borderline-delinquent teenager when her parents bring her to Alex Delaware's office. But for all Alex's skill and effort, Lauren resists-angrily, provocatively. Reluctantly, the psychologist chalks Lauren up as one of the inevitable failures of a challenging profession. But years later, when Alex encounters Lauren as a stag party's featured entertainment, both doctor and patient are sticken with shame. And the ultimate horror takes place when, soon after, Lauren's brutalized corpse is found dumped in an alley. Alex disregards the advice of his trusted friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, and jeopardizes his relationship with longtime lover, Robin Castagna, in order to pursue Lauren's murderer. As he investigates his young patient's troubled past, Alex enters the shadowy worlds of fringe psychological experimentation and the sex industry, and then into mortal danger when lust and big money collide in Southern California. Jonathan Kellerman's L.A. is evil, seductive, erotic, and unforgiving, and Flesh and Blood is mind-opening in its drama of a driven man's personal quest, breathtaking in its ingenious plot, filled with unforgettable characters, and topped off by a terrifying climax. This is suspense fiction at its finest. Jonathan Kellerman: Flesh and Blood. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 034541389X (October, 2002), 437 p., $7.99.
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Jonathan Kellerman: Flesh and Blood (UK 2002) From the Publisher: Jonathan Kellerman: Flesh and Blood. Headline, ISBN: 0747265003 (September, 2002), 566 p., £6.99.
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Jonathan Kellerman: Flesh and Blood (UK 2002) From the Publisher: Jonathan Kellerman: Flesh and Blood. Headline, ISBN: 0747267006 (December, 2001), 406 p., £12.99.
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Jonathan Kellerman: Flesh and Blood (USA 2001) From the Publisher: Jonathan Kellerman's L.A. is evil, seductive, erotic, and unforgiving, and Flesh and Blood is mind-opening in its drama of a driven man's personal quest, breathtaking in its ingenious plot, filled with unforgettable characters, and topped off by a terrifying climax. This is suspense fiction as its best. Jonathan Kellerman: Flesh and Blood. An Alex Delaware Novel. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0679459626 (December, 2001), 371 p., $26.95.
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