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Summary: MURDER W/MUTILATION WORTH 3-1/2 to 4 stars.
Review: There are enough characters in this book for 2 novels. Add aliasand AKAs and you need a score card. The story was not a spellbinder so I laid the book aside too often and thereby lost thethread of the story. Milo Sturgiswas barely in the picture as AlexDelaware kept working out different theories of the killer'sID and motive. Some people want to die and hire a doctor death tohelp them out of their miseries;but no one wants his body carved into pieces with hate. A lot ofsuspects have to be eliminated andthe killer brought to justice. I'mnot sure who did what with theexception of one father killing the man who mutilated his daughter. Alex keeps changing hissuspects like he changes socks with the exception of one family in particular. Turns out they wereinnocent after all, just needed his services as a psychologist.Then Here Comes De Judge! She wasguilty of something and very angryat a neighbor who tutored thedaughter in math.Suddenly Alex develops the insightin the last few pages that has been eluding him for over 300 pagsand the secrets are out, as far asconfidentality will permit. Ah,yes, the psychology of it all.Read it and judge for yourself ifDr. Death is up to Kellerman'susual notch on the pole.
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Summary: AN EMOTIONALLY INTENSE READING
Review: Tony Award-winner John Rubinstein has read the audio book versions of each of Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware novels. "Performed" might be a more appropriate word than "read" as his deliveries are riveting. (Need we say that Kellerman, a master of the psychological thriller, writes can't-put-down tales?)There's a diabolical twist in this story as the man some have described as a killer is killed - Dr. Eldon Mate, a proponent of euthanasia, is murdered in the back of his own vehicle, attached to the mechanism he has used to assist others in ending their lives. Of course, the LAPD seeks assistance from Dr. Alex Delaware who has a few qualms of his own regarding the case. Rife with menacing characters and psychological detail, "Dr. Death" is Kellerman at the peak of his authorial prowess. In the case of the audiobook Rubinstein's emotionally intense voice is frosting on this devil's food cake.
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