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Monsterby Kellerman, Jonathan
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Book DescriptionNY: Random House, 1999. First edition stated. Other than slight edge wear the book and jacket are in very good condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book summaryAfter solving a case that involved a hated female professor in THE CLINIC, Dr. Alex Delaware is once again asked by LAPD detective Milo Sturgis to find the killer of a despised woman in this grisly thriller. Dr. Claire Argent, a reclusive and harsh staff psychologist at the Starkweather State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, was recently found miles from the asylum with her throat slit and her eyes cut out. While any one of her patients might be seen as mentally capable of committing such a horrific crime, their steel-tight incarceration provides them with ironclad alibis. But that doesn't stop Alex from suspecting Ardis Peake, a psychotic who almost never leaves his room and, aside from the occasional mumble concerning an upcoming murder, rarely speaks. Aggressive probing leads Alex to details about Dr. Argent's past, which surprisingly include connections to Ardis. Could this nonfunctional madman be the monster Alex is looking for?Media Reviews"Some sharp plot twists and a very tantalizing mystery make this one of the strongest entries in the Delaware series." -- Chris Petrakos, Chicago Tribune "Both Sturgis and Delaware occasionally make some surprising imaginative leaps owing to authorial manipulation, and the book does suffer from a fairly long denoument. But these flaws are not enough to bring the compelling story to a halt." -- Randy Michael Signor, Book "MONSTER [is] a gory thriller of surprising psychological substance." -- Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review "Alert, ironic and absorbing." -- Philip Oakes, Literary Review Publisher NotesThe ramblings of a well-guarded psychotic patient and mass murderer attracts the attention of Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis when the killer's words seem to predict a string of serial murders outside the prison walls. Other Recommended Books
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