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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780345452627
ISBN number: 0345452623
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 480
Printing Date: March 27, 2007
Publishing house: Ballantine Books
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 50262
Studio: Ballantine Books
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No one conducts a more chilling, suspenseful, thoroughly engrossing tour through the winding corridors of criminal behavior and the secret chambers of psychopathology than Jonathan Kellerman, the bestselling “master of the psychological thriller” (People). Now the incomparable team of psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide cop Milo Sturgis embark on their most dangerous excursion yet, into the dark places where risk runs high and blood runs cold.
It’s a story tailor-made for the nightly news: Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibu -battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor.
The details of the nightmarish event are shocking and brutal: The couple was carjacked at gunpoint by a masked assailant and subjected to a horrific regimen of confinement, starvation and assault.
But before long, doubts arise about the couple’s story, and as forensic details unfold, the abduction is exposed as a hoax. Charged as criminals themselves, the aspiring actors claim emotional problems, and the court orders psychological evaluation for both.
Michaela is examined by Alex Delaware, who finds that her claims of depression and stress ring true enough. But they don’t explain her lies, and Alex is certain that there are hidden layers in this sordid psychodrama that even he hasn’t been able to penetrate.
Nevertheless, the case is closed–only to be violently reopened when Michaela is savagely murdered. When the police look for Dylan, they find that he’s gone. Is he the killer or a victim himself? Casting their dragnet into the murkiest corners of L.A., Delaware and Sturgis unearth more questions than answers–including a host of eerily identical killings. What really happened to the couple who cried wolf? And what bizarre and brutal epidemic is infecting the city with terror, madness, and sudden, twisted death?
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Gone by Jonathan Kellerman is a great fast paced mystery thriller. In this one Kellerman tells us what kind of things can happen to naive young people who go to Hollywood hoping to become stars. It's an old shtick, but Kellerman makes it feel fresh and new. As in most of his books, we learn of yet another group of people that are vulnerable to exploitation because they are somewhat invisible to the rest of us. (I'm not talking about Hollywood wannabes here). The great thing about Kellerman's stories is right from the beginning you think you know where it's going, and you're always wrong. Kellerman's villains are all different and motivated, each one brings a new meaning to Evil.
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I gave up on J. Kellerman some years ago and only picked this up on CD at the library when I failed to put something of more interest on my reserve list in time. Far from it being a fill-in, I'm loving the book. The reader is a wonderful performer. Like Jim Dale, he gives each character a different voice, and does an excellent job.
I read about 1/2 other-readers comments and the capsule reviews above, and concede that while they may have a point, I recommend this book on CD or tape to anyone with a long commute or drive. It's engaging, the detail level is absolutely perfect for anyone, like me, who "reads" the book in 30-to-40-minute increments over 3 weeks (perhaps a person who also enjoys Eric Rohmer films for the dialogue AND wallpaper/china/house furnishings), and the characters/friendship between Milo and Alex never fail to be interesting. I'm not done yet (3 disks to go), so I don't know whodunnit yet - but if it turns out to be the person I've been mentally saying, "hey! look harder at this person!" then I concede that the set-up might have been tighter.
Again, not completely done, but I also appreciate that this doesn't have the level of gore and psychosis most A.D. by J.K. books have (so far).
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This is the second book by Jonathan Kellerman I've read, "Billy Straight" being the first. I really enjoyed that one and anticipated a good read with "Gone". Wrong! This book was extremely tedious, from start to finish. I kept at it longer than I should have, to the point I just started skimming through the details to just find out who did it..so that I could give them book away to some unsuspecting victim.
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Where is it? I've never received it and it's been a month since I ordered it!
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Unlike many reviewers here, I enjoyed the book. Maybe it's because I am a new Jonathan Kellerman reader, and not having read all of his previous Alex Delaware novels (I've only read Obsession), I don't find them repetitive or disappointing. This one is about Hollywood, and the dream that brings so many into the Hollywood scene, the idea of being a star. A young couple creates a hoax where they have been carjacked and held against their will for attention. Soon, one of them is found murdered and the other is missing, and the body count soon rises.
By not reading them in order, I have missed out on the relationships between Allison and Alex and Robin and Alex, which are also in this book. I do look forward to reading more of the series.
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