fb2Маньяк наносит удар только раз в год - 28 июня.
У его жертв нет ничего общего - кроме способа, которым их лишили жизни. Полиция - в тупике.
И тогда за дело берется Петра Коннор - талантливая ученица легендарного Алекса Делавэра. С помощью способного практиканта Айзека Гомеса ей удается сделать поразительное открытие: серия деяний маньяка должна включать в себя семь убийств.
Почему? В ответе на этот вопрос - ключ к разгадке преступлений. Шесть человек уже мертвы. На карту поставлена жизнь седьмого…
Лорен Тиг. Девочка-подросток, которая нуждалась в помощи психолога — но отказалась ее принять.
Алекс Делавэр считал ее своей профессиональной неудачей — однако так и не смог о ней забыть…
Прошли годы — и однажды чудовищно изуродованное тело Лорен нашли в темном переулке.
Алекс понял — он никогда не простит себе смерть девушки, которой не сумел помочь.
Его отговаривают от расследования все — и полиция, и друзья, и любимая женщина.
Но он упрямо продолжает поиски убийцы — и, наконец, выходит на след… След, ведущий в темный и опасный мир рискованных психологических экспериментов и секс индустрии для избранных. Туда, где истина может стоить ему жизни…
Лорен Тиг. Девочка-подросток, которая нуждалась в помощи психолога – но отказалась ее принять.
Алекс Делавэр считал ее своей профессиональной неудачей – однако так и не смог о ней забыть...
Прошли годы – и однажды чудовищно изуродованное тело Лорен нашли в темном переулке.
Алекс понял – он никогда не простит себе смерть девушки, которой не сумел помочь.
Его отговаривают от расследования все – и полиция, и друзья, и любимая женщина.
Но он упрямо продолжает поиски убийцы – и, наконец, выходит на след... След, ведущий в темный и опасный мир рискованных психологических экспериментов и секс индустрии для избранных. Туда, где истина может стоить ему жизни...
Лорен Тиг. Девочка-подросток, которая нуждалась в помощи психолога – но отказалась ее принять.
Алекс Делавэр считал ее своей профессиональной неудачей – однако так и не смог о ней забыть...
Прошли годы – и однажды чудовищно изуродованное тело Лорен нашли в темном переулке.
Алекс понял – он никогда не простит себе смерть девушки, которой не сумел помочь.
Его отговаривают от расследования все – и полиция, и друзья, и любимая женщина.
Но он упрямо продолжает поиски убийцы – и, наконец, выходит на след... След, ведущий в темный и опасный мир рискованных психологических экспериментов и секс индустрии для избранных. Туда, где истина может стоить ему жизни...
В Лос-Анджелесе – Городе Ангелов – полным-полно психопатов; блестящему психологу и полицейскому консультанту доктору Алексу Делавэру это хорошо известно. И он, как никто, умеет определять их, выделять из общей массы людей. Но, столкнувшись с делом Конни Сайкс, успешного и уважаемого врача, добивающейся через суд опеки над маленькой дочерью своей родной сестры, Алексу начинает казаться, что, возможно, до сих пор он вообще не понимал людей. Внезапно перед ним разверзлась чудовищная бездна человеческой жадности, беспринципности, жестокости – и безумия…
Келлерман не просто пишет психологические триллеры – он хозяин этого жанра…
Психологический триллер, автор которого, признанный мастер этого синтетического жанра, тщательно исследует внутренний мир своих героев, глубины их подсознания. В центре сюжета — поиски внезапно исчезнувшей миллионерши, бывшей голливудской звезды Джины Принс, которые ведут врач-психотерапевт Алекс Делавэр, в силу обстоятельств ставший сыщиком, и его друг — профессиональный детектив Майло Стерджис.
Психологический триллер, автор которого, признанный мастер этого синтетического жанра, тщательно исследует внутренний мир своих героев, глубины их подсознания. В центре сюжета — поиски внезапно исчезнувшей миллионерши, бывшей голливудской звезды Джины Принс, которые ведут врач-психотерапевт Алекс Делавэр, в силу обстоятельств ставший сыщиком, и его друг — профессиональный детектив Майло Стерджис.
Natural causes or foul play? That’s the question Clay Edison must answer each time he examines a body. Figuring out motives and chasing down suspects aren’t part of his beat — not until a seemingly open-and-shut case proves to be more than meets his highly trained eye.
Eccentric, reclusive Walter Rennert lies cold at the bottom of his stairs. At first glance the scene looks straightforward: a once-respected psychology professor, done in by booze and a bad heart. But his daughter Tatiana insists that her father has been murdered, and she persuades Clay to take a closer look at the grim facts of Rennert’s life.
What emerges is a history of scandal and violence, and an experiment gone horribly wrong that ended in the brutal murder of a coed. Walter Rennert, it appears, was a broken man — and maybe a marked one. And when Clay learns that a colleague of Rennert’s died in a nearly identical manner, he begins to question everything in the official record.
All the while, his relationship with Tatiana is evolving into something forbidden. The closer they grow, the more determined he becomes to catch her father’s killer — even if he has to overstep his bounds to do it.
The twisting trail Clay follows will lead him into the darkest corners of the human soul. It’s his job to listen to the tales the dead tell. But this time, he’s part of a story that makes his blood run cold.
Even with all his years of experience, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis knows there are crimes his skill and savvy cannot solve alone. That’s when he calls on brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware to read between the lines, where the darkest motives lurk. And if ever the good doctor’s insight is needed, it’s at the scene of a murder as baffling as it is brutal.
There’s no spilled blood, no evidence of a struggle, and, thanks to the victim’s missing face and hands, no immediate means of identification. And no telling why the disfigured corpse of a stranger has appeared in an upscale L.A. family’s home. Chet Corvin, his wife, and their two teenage children are certain the John Doe is unknown to them. Despite that, their cooperation seems guarded. And that’s more than Milo and Alex can elicit from the Corvins’ creepy next-door neighbor — a notorious cartoonist with a warped sense of humor and a seriously antisocial attitude.
As the investigation ensues, it becomes clear that this well-to-do suburban enclave has its share of curious eyes, suspicious minds, and loose lips. And as Milo tightens the screws on potential persons of interest — and Alex tries to breach the barriers that guard their deepest secrets — a strangling web of corrupted love, cold-blooded greed, and shattered trust is exposed. Though the grass may be greener on these privileged streets, there’s enough dirt below the surface to bury a multitude of sins. Including the deadliest.
**Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis search for answers to a brutal, decades-old crime in this electrifying psychological thriller from the #1** New York Times **bestselling master of suspense.**
LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a master detective. He has a near-perfect solve rate and he's written his own rulebook. Some of those successes—the toughest ones—have involved his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But Milo doesn't call Alex in unless cases are "different."
This murder warrants an immediate call: Milo's independence has been compromised as never before, as the department pressures him to cater to the demands of a mogul. A hard-to-fathom, mega-rich young woman obsessed with reopening the coldest of cases: the decades-old death of the mother she never knew.
The facts describe a likely loser: a mysterious woman found with a bullet in her head in a torched Cadillac that has overturned on infamously treacherous Mulholland Drive. No physical evidence, no witnesses, no apparent motive. And a slew of detectives have already worked the case and failed. But as Delaware and Sturgis begin digging, the mist begins to lift. Too many coincidences. Facts turn out to be anything but. And as they soon discover, very real threats lurking in the present.
This is Delaware/Sturgis at their best: traversing the beautiful but forbidding place known as Los Angeles and exhuming the past in order to bring a vicious killer to justice.
LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a master detective. He has a near-perfect solve rate and he’s written his own rule book. Some of those successes — the toughest ones — have involved his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But Milo doesn’t call Alex in unless cases are “different.”
This murder warrants an immediate call. Milo’s independence has been compromised as never before, as the department pressures him to cater to the demands of a mogul: a hard-to-fathom, megarich young woman who is obsessed with reopening the coldest of cases — the decades-old death of the mother she never knew.
The facts describe a likely loser: a mysterious woman found with a bullet in her head in a torched Cadillac that has overturned on infamously treacherous Mulholland Drive. No physical evidence, no witnesses, no apparent motive. And a slew of detectives have already worked the case and failed. But as Delaware and Sturgis begin digging, the mist begins to lift. Too many coincidences. Facts turn out to be anything but. And as they soon discover, very real threats lurking in the present.
This is Delaware/Sturgis at their best: traversing the beautiful but forbidding place known as Los Angeles and exhuming the past in order to bring a vicious killer to justice.
Detective Jacob Lev has awakened dazed and confused: it appears he picked up a woman the night before, but can’t remember anything about it. And then suddenly, she’s gone. Not long after, he’s dispatched to a murder scene in a house in the Hollywood hills. There is no body, only a head. And seared into a kitchen counter is a message: the Hebrew word for justice.
Lev is about to embark on an odyssey — through Los Angeles, London, and Prague, through the labyrinthine mysteries of a grotesque ancient legend, and 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.
It’s been more than a year since LAPD detective Jacob Lev learned the remarkable truth about his family, and he’s not coping well. He’s back to drinking, the LAPD Special Projects Department continues to shadow him, and the memory of a woman named Mai haunts him. And while Jacob has tried to build a bridge to his mother, she remains imprisoned inside her own tattered mind.
Then he comes across the file for a gruesome unsolved murder that brings the two halves of his life into startling collision. Finding the killer will take him halfway around the world, to Paris.
It’s a dangerous search for truth that plunges him into the past. And for Jacob Lev, there is no place more frightening.
LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis has solved a lot of murder cases. On many of them — the ones he calls “different” — he taps the brain of brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. But neither Alex nor Milo are prepared for what they find on an early morning call to a deserted mansion in Bel Air. This one’s beyond different. This is predation, premeditation, and cruelty on a whole new level.
Four people have been slaughtered and left displayed bizarrely and horrifically in a stretch limousine. Confounding the investigation, none of the victims seems to have any connection to any other, and a variety of methods have been used to dispatch them. As Alex and Milo make their way through blind alleys and mazes baited with misdirection, they encounter a crime so vicious that it stretches the definitions of evil.
LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a fine homicide detective, but when he needs to get into the mind of a killer, he leans on the expertise of his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. While Sturgis has a knack for piecing together the details of a crime, Delaware can decipher the darkest intents driving the most vicious of perpetrators. And there’s no better place for the doctor’s analytical skills to shine than a rowdy hall full of young men and women intoxicated on life and lust... and suddenly faced with the specter of death.
Summoned to a run-down former strip joint, Delaware and Sturgis find themselves crashing a wild Saints and Sinners — themed wedding reception. But they’re not the only uninvited guests. A horrified bridesmaid has discovered the body of a young woman, dressed to impress in pricey haute couture and accessorized with a grisly red slash around her neck. What’s missing is any means of identification, or a single partygoer who recognizes the victim. The baffled bride is convinced the stranger snuck in to sabotage her big day — and the groom is sure it’s all a dreadful mistake. But Delaware and Sturgis have a hundred guests to question, and a sneaking suspicion that the motive for murder is personal. Now they must separate the sinners from the saints, the true from the false, and the secrets from those keeping them. The party’s over — and the hunt for whoever killed it is on.
An Alex Delaware Novel #1
It began with a double murder: particularly vicious, particularly gruesome. There was only one witness: but little Melody Quinn can’t or won’t say a word. Which is where child psychologist Alex Delaware comes in – and takes the first step into a maelstrom of atrocities… A breathtaking novel about the sewer of perversion and corruption lying below the glittering surface of California cool.