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Title details for The Museum of Desire by Jonathan Kellerman - Available

The Museum of Desire

#35 in series

by Jonathan Kellerman
John Rubinstein
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis struggle to make sense of a seemingly inexplicable massacre in this electrifying psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.

LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis has solved a lot of murder cases. On many of them—the ones he calls “different”—he taps the brain of brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware. But neither Alex nor Milo are prepared for what they find on an early morning call to a deserted mansion in Bel Air. This one’s beyond different. This is predation, premeditation, and cruelty on a whole new level.
Four people have been slaughtered and left displayed bizarrely and horrifically in a stretch limousine. Confounding the investigation, none of the victims seems to have any connection to any other, and a variety of methods have been used to dispatch them. As Alex and Milo make their way through blind alleys and mazes baited with misdirection, they encounter a crime so vicious that it stretches the definitions of evil.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Alex Delaware

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    February 4, 2020

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593103364
      • File size: 323164 KB
      • Duration: 11:13:15

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Fans of Kellerman's Alex Delaware series will find the 35th book in the series an engaging listen, thanks to John Rubinstein's masterful narration. The plot, which starts with a gruesome staged multiple murder, involves well-known characters from previous audiobooks in the series as well as new characters. Rubinstein shines at differentiating the many characters, including a socially "different" teenager, social-climbing women, a nun, and a drunk, dysfunctional artist. Typical of Kellerman's style, the story is driven through dialogue, much of which involves speculating and analyzing from a psychological perspective. Delaware's specialty is the behavior and motivation of the potential suspects. While the action doesn't get revved up until near the end, the audiobook is worth staying with. E.Q. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 2, 2019
      Early in bestseller Kellerman’s disappointing 35th whodunit featuring L.A. psychologist Alex Delaware (after 2019’s The Wedding Guest), a professional cleaner who arrives at a house the morning after a big party finds a white stretch limo parked near the pool containing four corpses. All are dressed in black and drenched in blood from the waist down. In the front seat, the chauffeur has a bullet wound to the head; in the backseat, the lone female victim holds the penis of a male victim. Delaware and his LAPD buddy, Lt. Milo Sturgis, must figure out how the four are connected, along with a motive for the murders and the staging of the bodies. The eventual explanation is a letdown, and Delaware and Sturgis make a judgment error at the climax that doesn’t fit with their years of experience interviewing suspects. Overdone prose is another negative (“Misfortune is the mother’s milk of journalism... those who suckle the teats of tragedy are rarely forced to confront evil directly”). Those looking for a cleverer resolution of a similar macabre setup should check out P.D. James’s A Taste for Death.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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