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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.
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February 2, 2021 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780593103401
- File size: 350573 KB
- Duration: 12:10:21
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Narrator John Rubinstein employs all his theater, television, and film experience to bring the latest Alex Delaware thriller to life. Rubinstein sparkles as he contrasts the brilliant psychologist Delaware with LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis as they solve a decades-old murder case involving a rich and influential woman's search for her mother's killer. Rubinstein clearly differentiates the two major characters and distinguishes the minor characters with recognizable qualities. Even the city of Los Angeles, with its well-known landmarks, such as twisty Mulholland Drive, comes alive as a character. Fans of the Delaware-Sturgis duo will find lots to enjoy, and new listeners may be inspired to start from the beginning of this long-running series. R.O. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine -
Starred review from December 14, 2020
In Edgar winner Kellerman’s top-notch 36th Alex Delaware novel (after 2020’s The Museum of Desire), a cold case preoccupies the L.A. consulting psychologist and his friend and colleague, Lt. Milo Sturgis of the LAPD: the death of Dorothy Swoboda, whose burned body was found in a car below Mulholland Drive 36 years earlier. Dorothy’s 39-year-old daughter, Ellie Barker, who recently sold her lucrative exercise wear business for millions, remains haunted by the loss of her mother, who abandoned her when she was three. Now Ellie wants an explanation for what one report at the time called a murder and another a one-vehicle accident. Armed with the thinnest of case files, Milo and Alex uncover a disturbing number of murders that seem related to Dorothy, and they realize that the killing spree might not yet be over. Kellerman maintains pace and suspense through the interactions of the characters—witnesses, detectives, relatives of the victims—all of whom are rendered in striking and precise detail. This entry is pure pleasure, intelligently delivered.
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