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Liked It “I enjoy the Alex Delaware character and Kellerman's writing style is similar to Robert Crais - fast paced, snappy dialog and interesting plots.” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It“I think I've liked every Kellerman book I've read, and while I thought this one started good, it just dragged the story out too much to keep my interest. There are just too many good books out there to stick with a boring one.” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“I enjoy the Alex Delaware character and Kellerman's writing style is similar to Robert Crais - fast paced, snappy dialog and interesting plots.”
Marc R wrote this review 7 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This series teams a child psychologist with a maverick police homicide lieutenant solving the most difficult cases in Los Angeles.”
Jack Durish wrote this review 11 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I think I've liked every Kellerman book I've read, and while I thought this one started good, it just dragged the story out too much to keep my interest. There are just too many good books out there to stick with a boring one.”
Bob W wrote this review Monday, February 20, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, at nineteen, Tanya returns with a curious request: that Delaware investigate her aunt's deathbed confession of murder. While Delaware doubts that Patty Bigelow was capable of such a horrific act, he agrees to look into the matter. Armed with only the vaguest details, Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis retrace Patty's and Tanya's nomadic and increasingly puzzling life. Then a very real murder tears open a terrifying tunnel into the past, where secrets--and bodies--are buried. As the tension mounts, Delaware and Sturgis uncover a tangled history of desperation, vengeance, and death--a legacy of evil that refuses to die.
LaVerne L wrote this review Wednesday, January 4, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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“Not a quick read for someone not familiar with Los Angeles or California. Generally good story line but with lots of layers. Tanya's nurse mother gives a dying confession to "something awful" and Tanya in her obessiveness needs to have it cleared up through mom's doctor friend's detective friend's shrink friend... and that is how the book rambles.”
Lynda J wrote this review Saturday, December 24, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This PW review of Obsession pretty much says it all: "The 21st Alex Delaware novel ... contains fewer twists than usual for this contemporary thriller series. Once again, Delaware, an accomplished psychologist, teams with his friend Milo Sturgis, an LAPD detective, to probe a mystery, though this time there's considerable doubt as to the nature of the puzzle. Teenager Tanya Bigelow, whom Delaware treated as a child for obsessive-compulsive disorder, consults him because her aunt Patty, who raised her, conveyed a cryptic message just before she died, apparently confessing to a crime. Shortly after Delaware and Sturgis start investigating, one of Patty's former neighbors turns up dead, the first in a series of corpses that appear, possibly as a result of the duo's turning over old rocks. Since the identity of the killer is revealed relatively early on, the final sections are short on suspense."”
Alan S wrote this review Wednesday, November 9, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Very uninteresting at the start of the novel with the author kept going back to the past repeatably. It can be quite boring. I decided to stop reading the book just after having gone through a few chapters. Luckily, got this book real cheap! I do remember having enjoyed Jonathan Kellerrman's other books.”
YS Lee wrote this review Tuesday, August 16, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Overall it was interesting; kept me going when I have a bad habit of not finishing even good books. Easy read; I cared about the characters. This was my first Kellerman book and am hoping he has more with Dr. Delaware. I really liked Blanche.”
Janet wrote this review Friday, March 18, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“great who-done-it, surprise ending.”
december280 wrote this review Monday, January 31, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
