I love the Alex Delaware novels and this one is no exception. I couldn't put it down, as I had to know who did it. I love the scenes in the asylum for the criminally insane. Pyschology in general fascinates me, so any book that has a good portion spent talking with the staff and inmates in an asylum will get me hooked.

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I thought this was a great book. I really enjoyed reading it. If you like mysterys you'll like this one.

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DR ALEX DELAWARE IS BACK!!!how can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up ina supposedly secure institution fior homiclial madmen predict bruital murders in the outside world??
a marginal actor is found dead in a car truck,sawn in half..Months later, a psychologist at a hospital for the criminallly insane is discovered murdered and mutilated in a tantalizingly similar way..when reports ofan inmate's incoherent.ramblings begin to make frighteningly sense as predictions of yet mmore slayings, delaware and Strugis are drawn into a web of family secrets, vengenance, and manipulation=both inside the asylum and on the streets of LS, where death, drugs and sex are marketed as commodeties... this book finally reveals how it is possible to get to the truth of the matter that has created this MONSTER

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This is a great detective story. People are being murdered in grisly fashion and it leads back to a gruesome murder from years past. I love this book because it is much gorier and twisted than the average detective thriller. I love Agatha Christie-type mysteries, but this is like a horror-mystery combo and it's excellently written. A great read!!!

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Another AWESOME Alex Delaware novel. I am so hooked on this series.

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From Amazon.com
Consulting psychologist Alex Delaware has a novel approach to crime-solving: he uses his training to unlock the secrets in the minds of the victims and jiggles the clues he finds there until the right scenario emerges. So when Alex's LAPD buddy Milo finds the hacked-up body of a woman psychologist named Claire Argent in an abandoned car trunk--the second such murder in eight months--Alex heads for her place of employment: the Starkweather State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

One of Argent's patients at Starkweather is Ardis "Monster" Peake, imprisoned for the unbelievably brutal murders of his mother and the family she worked for, including a small child and a baby. There's at least one eerie similarity between the mutilation of their bodies and Argent's: in all the bodies, the eyes were taken or destroyed. But Peake, diagnosed as schizophrenic and psychotic, is a well-behaved vegetable due to a steady diet of Thorazine, and he hasn't left the hospital since his incarceration 15 years before. How is it, then, that Claire Argent's assistant, Heidi Ott, swears she heard Peake say, "Dr. A. Bad eyes in a box" soon after he hears only the bare fact of her death? And why does Alex find Peake so empathetic, in spite of his violent past and chillingly vacant mind? When other mutilated bodies turn up, Alex and Milo begin to suspect that the real monster is very much at large. Like Kellerman's 12 previous Alex Delaware mysteries, Monster builds to a big, teeth-clenching bang and ends with some very satisfying surprises. --Barrie Trinkle
This book is a psychological thriller that reminds me of a non-cannibal Hannibal Lecter or Jeffrey Dahmer. Good big read that takes time but is enjoyable. This isn't a book you can read through in a few hours. Full of suspense, fear and drama.

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It was a very intresting read, intense.

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great read

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All of the books that I've read by Kellerman seem to take a while to take off for me. But if I try to skip ahead I always end up having to turn back to find the key clues I missed in the process. Another great book in his Alex Delaware series!

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A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk. Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent ramblings of an inmate at the presumably secure institution begin to make chilling sense - they are, in fact, horrifying predictions. Yet how can a barely functional psychotic locked behind asylum walls possibly know such vivid details of crimes committed in the outside world? Drawn into a labyrinth of secrets, revenge, sex, and manipulation, Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis set out to unlock this enigma and put an end to the brutal killings - before the madman predicts their own demise...

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Very Good pschological thriller

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Kellerman's done it again - lot's of twists and turns - and then brings it all together at the end. I enjoyed.

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good book

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