Jonathan Kellerman: Monster (UK 2009)

From the Publisher:
Can Alex solve one of his most thrilling cases yet?
New York Times No. 1 bestseller Jonathan Kellerman gives psychologist Alex Delaware a gruesome and twisting case to unravel in Monster, the gripping thirteenth instalment. Perfect for fans of Harlan Coben and David Baldacci.

'Ingenious and horrifying' -- The Sunday Times

A corpse is found in a car trunk. The victim was a twenty-five-year-old would-be actor called Richard Dada. He had been sawn in half. Eight months later, the body of Claire Argent, a psychologist at a hospital for the criminally insane, is discovered. She was mutilated in the same horrific way.

Detective Milo Sturgis is put on the case and, when the incoherent ramblings of a patient locked up in a mental hospital for the criminally insane begin to make terrifying sense, he calls on psychologist Alex Delaware to help him delve into the muddy waters of insanity.

Can Alex and Milo unravel this dark web of family secrets, vengeance and manipulation in time to stop further killing?

Jonathan Kellerman: Monster. An Alex Delaware Thriller. Headline, ISBN: 9780755342877 (May, 2009), 512 p., £7.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Monster (USA 2008)

From the Publisher:
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.

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 tantalizingly 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 a 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.

With Monster's incomparably deft characterizations and dazzlingly dark plot twists, Jonathan Kellerman further enhances his literary position as master of the psychological thriller.

Jonathan Kellerman: Monster. An Alex Delaware Thriller. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 9780345508515 (May, 2008), 499 p., $9.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Monster (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
A new Alex Delaware thriller in which the victims are as much a mystery as their killer.
Two murder victims have been discovered in the boots of their cars. The first was would-bector, Richard Dada; the second Dr Claire Argent, a psychiatrist at a maximum security hospital. Mile Sturgis tends to think there will be plenty of suspects amongst her clientele, but as his friend Alex Delaware remarks, none of her patients ever killed anyone and as they investigate the backgrounds of both victims it appears that Mile needs to look elsewhere, because neither of them are who they made themselves out to be.

As they slowly unravel the strands of their lives another, truly monstrous, character emerges: a man who gains his pleasure not from mere mutilation and murder but from making his victims watch their own forthcoming death on film. And somehow he has control over some of Claire Argent's patients, apparently securely behind bars.

In one of the most complex plots he has yet devised, Jonathan Kellerman has created a devastating mystery thriller.

Jonathan Kellerman: Monster. The New Alex Delaware Novel. Warner, ISBN: 0751530166 (December, 2000), 394 p., £6.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Monster (USA 2000)

From the Publisher:
A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk. Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent ramblings of an inmate at the presumably secure institution begin to make chilling sense - they are, in fact, horrifying predictions. Yet how can a barely functional psychotic locked behind asylum walls possibly know such vivid details of crimes committed in the outside world? Drawn into a labyrinth of secrets, revenge, sex, and manipulation, Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis set out to unlock this enigma and put an end to the brutal killings - before the madman predicts their own demise...

Jonathan Kellerman: Monster. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 0345413873 (September, 2000), 393 p., $7.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Monster (UK 2000)

From the Publisher:
A new Alex Delaware thriller in which the victims are as much a mystery as their killer.
Two murder victims have been discovered in the boots of their cars. The first was would-be actor, Richard Dada; the second Dr Claire Argent, a psychiatrist at a maximum security hospital. Mile Sturgis tends to think there will be plenty of suspects amongst her clientele, but as his friend Alex Delaware remarks, none of her patients ever killed anyone and as they investigate the backgrounds of both victims it appears that Mile needs to look elsewhere, because neither of them are who they made themselves out to be.

As they slowly unravel the strands of their lives another, truly monstrous, character emerges: a man who gains his pleasure not from mere mutilation and murder but from making his victims watch their own forthcoming death on film. And somehow he has control over some of Claire Argent's patients, apparently securely behind bars.

In one of the most complex plots he has yet devised, Jonathan Kellerman has created a devastating mystery thriller.

Jonathan Kellerman: Monster. Little, Brown, ISBN: 0316646326 (February, 2000), 394 p., £15.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Monster (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
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.

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 tantalizingly 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 a 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.

With Monster's incomparably deft characterizations and dazzlingly dark plot twists, Jonathan Kellerman further enhances his literary position as master of the psychological thriller.

Jonathan Kellerman: Monster. An Alex Delaware Novel. Random House, ISBN: 067945960X (December, 1999), 396 p., $25.95.