Critiques en avant-premièreJesse Kellerman

“An extraordinary work of detection, suspense, and supernatural mystery. I spent three days totally lost in the world Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman have created. This is brilliant, page-turning fiction with mythic underpinnings that give it a special resonance; a rare collaboration where the sum is truly greater than the parts.” -- STEPHEN KING A burnt-out Los Angeles homicide detective…a woman of mystery who is far more than she seems…an ancient monster bent on a mission of retribution. When these three come together, a new standard of suspense is born. The legend of the Golem of Prague has endured through the ages, a creature fashioned by a 16th century rabbi to protect the Jews, and now lying dormant in the garret of a synagogue. But the Golem is dormant no longer. L.A. detective Jacob Lev wakes up one morning to a mystery: he seems to have picked up a beautiful woman in a bar the night before, but he can’t remember anything about it, and before he knows it, she has gone. But this mystery pales in comparison to the one he’s about to be called upon to solve. Newly re-assigned to a Special Projects department he didn’t even know existed, he’s to investigate a murder far up in the hills of Hollywood Division. There is no body. There is only a unidentified head, lying on the floor of a house. The decapitation is absolutely clean. Burnt into a kitchen counter nearby is a single word: the Hebrew for “justice.” Detective Lev is about to embark upon an odyssey – through Los Angeles, through the United States, through London and Prague, but most of all, through himself. All that he has believed to be true will be upended, and not only his world, but the world itself, will be changed. Jonathan Kellerman has long been known for his mastery of criminal psychology, and his ability to create thrilling novels of nuanced drama and suspense. But never anything as spectacular as this. Only Jonathan Kellerman could have imagined it – and only he could have realized it so brilliantly.

Arthur Pfefferkorn is a has-been, or perhaps a never-was: a middle-aged college professor with long-dead literary aspirations. When his oldest friend, bestselling thriller writer William de Vallèe, is lost at sea, Pfefferkorn is torn between envy and grief, for de Vallèe not only outshone Pfefferkorn professionally, but married the woman Pfefferkorn loved. Pfefferkorn’s decision to reconnect with de Vallèe’s widow sets in motion a surreal chain of events, plunging him into a shadowy realm of double crosses and intrigue, a world where no one can be trusted--and nothing can be taken seriously.

Perpetual graduate student Joseph Geist is at his wit's end. Recently kicked out of their shared apartment by his girlfriend, he's left with little more than a half bust of Nietzsche's head and the realization that he's homeless and unemployed. He's hit a dead end on his dissertation; his funding has been cut off. He doesn't even have a phone. Desperate for some source of income, he searches the local newspaper and finds a curious ad: CONVERSATIONALIST SOUGHT. SERIOUS APPLICANTS ONLY. PLEASE CALL 617-XXX-XXXX BETWEEN SEVEN A.M. AND TWO P.M. NO SOLICITORS. And so Joseph meets Alma Spielman: a woman who, with her old-world ways and razor-sharp mind, is his intellectual soul mate. How is he to know that what seems to be the best decision of his life is the one that seals his fate?