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Summary: The Conspiracy Club
Review: Kellerman has lost it! Years ago, when I first discovered his books, I could not put them down. Now I read them through our local book club as punishment. He has become blasé, predictable, self-involved and should be put out to pasture. I sometimes wonder if he has a secretary who fills in the gaps once he has decided on the storyline. Never again, not even for our book club.
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Summary: Good Change of Pace
Review: The Conspiracy Club is told in an odd third party set up...it works...but I was expecting a twist of fate, or another character to come into play.The story is fresh, and offers a new set of characters for Jonathan Kellerman to expand upon. I have been getting burned out on the perfectness of his other stories. I immediately liked the newness, and background of this book. A good change of pace, keep it up.
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Summary: Carrier's not Delaware, but he'll do
Review: I generally don't like it when my authors go off on tangents and write something else other than what they got me hooked with. I loved the first Alex Delaware novel and became an avid reader of all his adventures.
I was mildly disappointed to find that The Conspiracy Club wasn't a Delaware novel, but when I discovered that the protagonist was a psychologist, I decided it might not be too bad.
It wasn't too bad. It took me longer to become engaged in Carrier's adventures than it does with Delaware. I also found the plot development to be somewhat ponderous. The book moved turgidly in the beginning and the premise seemed just a little bizarre. Of course it all became clear at the end, which I suppose is what an author shoots for, but it doesn't make for a really gripping book.
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Summary: Different but Good.
Review: This is a story from author Kellerman which is a bit
of a departure for him, in that he usually writes about his
hero Alex Delaware and his odd pal, Milo, who operate in
the psych and homicide world of L.A. The best of those stories
usually grab your attention and move at a fast, complex pace.
Here, Kellerman does give us a different perspective with his
hero a Ph.D psychologist working in the psych unit of a hospital
in an unnamed city. Dr.Jeremy Carter's life falls suddenly into
new depths when his beautiful girl friend is found murdered,
and the details of her death are so gruesome the detectives
won't talk about them to anyone.
And, of course, since there are few clues, the hidebound police
detectives suspect the boy friend, Jeremy, and they try to work
him into the murder.
Jeremy tries to build a new life, but it is a slow, painful
process; then he meets another beautiful young woman, and they
move toward a more intimate friendship. But he can never forget
his earlier girlfriend and her fate, but the police still won't
tell him anything, but they are obviously losing interest in
what is becoming an old case.
Then Jeremy is suddenly befriended by an older man on staff,
who is a pathologist, and the older doc invites Jeremy to a
dinner, which turns out to be very mysterious indeed. The
handful of participants are all older, seemingly wealthy, and
they have something secret in their past, which they hint of
but never detail.
The pathologist then disappears, and Jeremy begins receiving postcards from around the world, and about the same time, someone is slipping into his interoffice mail copies of bizarre
articles in medical journals. Jeremy's interest is aroused,
of course, and he begins trying to make some connection among
all those articles and the bare hints from his new friend, the
traveling pathologist.
The course is complex, with some false leads, and the psychologist begins investigating on his own. All leading to danger of course.
In the course of his story, author Kellerman tells us a bit about the basic characteristics of serial killers and the kind
of people who kill for no reason, or only for their personal
thrill, and his descriptions are highly interesting, all the more because the author knows this business.
The pace is both quick and easy, and the ending does reveal
this to be a genuine mystery.
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Summary: What happened???
Review: In the past I have found Jonathan Kellerman to be my favorite author, having read every book he has ever written. Conspiracy Club, however, does not live up to his previous works. The plot was weak, the characters even weaker. I found myself bored and thrilled when it ended. Mr. Kellerman, please go back to your previous style, this was simply not worth reading.
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Summary: You should do better.
Review: A decent story but too wordy and full of itself. I found myself wondering about this book when I wasn't reading it but when I picked it up, it was predictible and left too many ends dangling.
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Summary: Conspiracy Club by Jonathan Kellerman
Review: I am an avid reader and huge Johathan Kellerman fan. I have read many of his books and was excited to read his latest novel. This is the first time in years I actually stopped reading a book in the middle out of interminable boredom. This book is extremely slow moving. Too much description and not enough action. It was as if someone else wrote the novel under Jonathan Kellerman's name. The language seemed forced, bombastic, and esoteric. What a huge dissapointment. The only recommendation I would give for this book is to ask for your money back.
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Summary: A Great Beginning!
Review: Although it took a couple of chapters to get beyond Dr. Delaware and the rest of my "friends", the book had the same sub-plots and twists that will be familiar to all Kellerman readers and then ends with what could/should be the start of a fantastic new series of novels. I'm sure I'll miss Alex and Milo, but the CCC sets the stage for more complicated and interesting stories! Kellerman is one of the best insightful mystery author's around today!
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Summary: The Conspiacy Club by Jonathan Kellerman
Review: I have been rading Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware novels for years and I have really enjoyed them. I was so disappointed by his new novel The Conspiracy Club. It moved so slowly it was painful. There were no interesting characters. I can't even remember the "hero's" name. This one wasn't worth the time. I was glad when it ended.
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Summary: Pleasantly Surprised
Review: I am an avid Kellerman reader & I've read many reviews from people who have bashed him having read only one book out of his Alex Delarware series & am highly disappointed that they would consider themselves an expert on good novels having not been privy to the character developments. However, w/ the introduction of a new central character, I found myself in this position of having to learn to warm up to a new hero. I read the first chapter on a website before the book was released & figured I would NEVER read the book, but out of boredom I dove into it w/ an open mind & found by the 3rd chapter I was enthralled & intrigued by Dr. Carrier. And although I hope he doesn't completely abandon the characters we've grown to love in the Alex Delaware novels, I do hope to hear much more about the new characters as well. Although these characters are very similar, i feel for people who read Series novels, it's a great way to get the quality you enjoy and still mix it up w/ out all the redundancy that comes w/ having to read the descriptions of all the same people, places, & things you've been reading about for years.
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