Doctor Death (Alex Delaware series, Book 14): A psychological thriller taut with suspense - Softcover

Kellerman, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075534295X ISBN 13: 9780755342952

Publisher: Headline, 2009

Synopsis

In DOCTOR DEATH, New York Times No. 1 bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman demonstrates once again his unique insights into the darkest corners of the human psyche. 'Kellerman is the acknowledged king of the psychological thriller' (Dallas Morning News) and his novels are perfect for fans of Michael Connelly and Harlan Coben.

People are voluntarily dying before their time in California. Some call it assisted suicide when cancer, heart disease or painful old age make the quality of life unbearable. Others say it is murder, that no-one has the right to help others take their own life.

As the debate rages over whether euthanasia should be legalised or not, the man at the centre of the row, nicknamed Doctor Death, continues his work. Dr Alex Delaware joins in the argument, but when Detective Milo Sturgis comes to him with the suspicion that some of Doctor Death's patients are not willing collaborators, Delaware finds himself on the frontline of the affair, and increasingly believes that euthanasia is not the prime motivation. So what is driving Doctor Death to kill so many?

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Review

Someone who kills a lot of people is a serial killer, except, perhaps, when they all wanted to die, and he is an advocate of euthanasia. Doctor Mate Doctor Death is found brutally tortured to death, strapped to his own painless death machine and tough LA cop Milo finds himself lumbered with the investigation. His usual adviser, psychologist Alex Delaware, has problems about helping him--Delaware treated the daughter of one of the women Mate helped die, and her father and brother both become suspects. An FBI man with a mission to track a serial killer in whom no one else believes involves himself in the case, claiming that two completely different sets of killings down the years can be attributed to the same man. Jonathan Kellerman has an inventive eye to the oddities of human nature and the things that lead people to kill--he is also solidly imaginative on the process of legwork which makes it possible to back up insights with actual knowledge. Doctor Death is a powerful and ingenious thriller in which Milo and Alex yet again discover things they never knew about the darkness of the human soul and about the limits of revenge. --Roz Kaveney

Review

Strong insights into the quirks of human and criminal behaviour (Guardian)

Filled with insight (Stephen King)

Coolly intelligent (GQ)

A sense of humanity and justice (Publishers Weekly)

An alert eye for detail (New York Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Headline
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 075534295X
• ISBN 13: 9780755342952
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512