Critiques en avant-premièreJonathan Kellerman

From the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of the acclaimed Alex Delaware series comes a tour de force standalone novel that illustrates perfectly why “Jonathan Kellerman has justly earned his reputation as a master of the psychological thriller” (People). A brilliant, deeply dedicated psychologist, Grace Blades has a gift for treating troubled souls and tormented psyches—perhaps because she bears her own invisible scars: Only five years old when she witnessed her parents’ death in a bloody murder-suicide, Grace took refuge in her fierce intellect and found comfort in the loving couple who adopted her. But even as an adult with an accomplished professional life, Grace still has a dark, secret side. When her two worlds shockingly converge, Grace’s harrowing past returns with a vengeance. Both Grace and her newest patient are stunned when they recognize each other from a recent encounter. Haunted by his bleak past, mild-mannered Andrew Toner is desperate for Grace’s renowned therapeutic expertise and more than willing to ignore their connection. And while Grace is tempted to explore his case, which seems to eerily echo her grim early years, she refuses—a decision she regrets when a homicide detective appears on her doorstep. An evil she thought she’d outrun has reared its head again, but Grace fears that a police inquiry will expose her double life. Launching her own personal investigation leads her to a murderously manipulative foe, one whose warped craving for power forces Grace back into the chaos and madness she’d long ago fled.

“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.

L.A. psychologist-detective Alex Delaware has received a strange, anonymous package in the mail. Inside is an album filled with gruesome crime-scene photos. When his old friend and colleague, homicide detective Milo Sturgis, views the compendium of death, he is immediately shaken by one of the images: a young woman tortured, strangled, and dumped near a freeway ramp. The murder was one of Milo’s first cases as a rookie homicide cop: a vicious killing that he failed to solve—and has haunted him ever since. Now, two decades later, someone has chosen to stir up the past. As Alex and Milo set out to uncover what really happened twenty years ago, their relentless investigation reaches deep into L.A.’s nerve centers of power and wealth—past and present. While peeling back layer after layer of ugly secrets, they discover that the murder of one forgotten girl has chilling ramifications that extend far beyond the tragic loss of a single life.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s “psychology skills and dark imagination are a potent literary mix” (Los Angeles Times), and this intensely thrilling blend has never been so powerful as in the acclaimed author’s new novel of murder and madness among the beautiful dreamers, seductive predators, and doomed innocents adrift in the glare of Southern California’s eternal sunshine. A series of horrifying events occur in quick succession in the same upscale L.A. neighborhood. A backyard renovation unearths an infant’s body, buried sixty years ago. And soon thereafter in a nearby park, another disturbingly bizarre discovery is made not far from the body of a young woman shot in the head. Helping LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to link these eerie incidents is brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But even the good doctor’s vast experience with matters both clinical and criminal might not be enough to cut down to the bone of this chilling case—and draw out the disturbing truth. Backtracking six decades into the past stirs up tales of a beautiful nurse with a mystery lover, a handsome, wealthy doctor who seems too good to be true, and a hospital with a notorious reputation—all of them long gone, along with any records of a newborn, and destined for anonymity. But the specter of fame rears its head when the case unexpectedly twists in the direction of the highest echelons of celebrity privilege. Entering this sheltered world, Alex little imagines the macabre layer just below the surface—a decadent quagmire of unholy rituals and grisly sacrifice. Before their work is done, Alex and Milo, “the most original whodunit duo since Watson and Holmes” (Forbes), must confront a fanatically deranged mind of such monstrous cunning that even the most depraved madman would shudder.

A gripping psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author who "owns the genre" (Detroit Free Press)--Jonathan Kellerman delivers a new fast-paced tale featuring the ever fascinating psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware. Despite the myriad of passionate enemies made while she was alive, when acid-tongued Vita Berlin is discovered brutally murdered in her apartment, psychologist Alex Delaware doubts the grisly act was one of revenge. LAPD's Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is skeptical until a second murder victim shows up, dispatched identically to Vita but with no apparent connection to her. When the list of victims grows, Alex and Milo must face the horrible possibility that a cunning killer has established a malevolent killing pattern based on no pattern at all, selecting random prey, stalking with serenity, then striking without warning. While Milo feels intense pressure from above to bring this shocking opera of blood to its final act, Alex embarks upon a one-man excavation, unearthing a host of tantalizing clues. When the shocking truth is at last confronted, it is even more deeply, darkly chilling than Alex could ever have anticipated.