“With his latest, [Jonathan Kellerman] not only brings his ‘A’ game but also ratchets it up a notch or three. . . . Victims will keep you up at night.”—Bookreporter
 
Acid-tongued Vita Berlin hadn’t a friend in the world, but whom did she cross so badly as to end up meticulously arranged in such a gruesome murder scene? One look prompts LAPD detective Milo Sturgis to summon his expert...

"The abduction of two art students turns out to have been faked, but the murder that follows is very real"--Library journal.

Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, h

Psychologist Alex Delaware receives a strange, anonymous package in the mail. Inside is an album filled with gruesome crime scene photos. When his friend, homicide detective Milo Sturgis, views this compendium of death, he is immediately shaken by one of the images: a young woman, tortured, strangled, and dumped near a freeway ramp. This particular murder was one of Milo's first cases as a rookie--a vicious killing that he failed to solve. Now,...

Someone has murdered euthanasia champion Dr. Eldon Mate with his own suicide machine. The case is assigned to LAPD detective Milo Sturgis, who turns once again to his psychologist ally Dr. Alex Delaware.

Alex Delaware receives an audiocassette of a horrifying scream followed by a childlike voice saying "Bad love. Bad love. Don't give me the bad love. . ." What does it mean?

A sniper shoots at children in a school yard and no one is hurt. The sniper is killed and an investigation to uncover his motives leads to a darker current of politics and hatred surrounding the school.