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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780345460684
ISBN number: 0345460685
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 512
Printing Date: April 29, 2003
Publishing house: Ballantine Books
Release Date: April 29, 2003
Sale Popularity Level: 81701
Studio: Ballantine Books
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The bestselling author of When The Bough Breaks, Blood Test, and Over The Edge delivers the most stunning novel yet and featuring psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware. At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist, Alex encounters a face from his own past--Sharon Ransom, an exquisite, alluring lover who left him abruptly more than a decade earlier. Sharon now hints that he desperately needs help, but Alex evades her. The next day she is dead, an apparent suicide. Driven by guilt and sadness, Alex plunges into the maze of Sharon's life--a journey that will take him through the pleasure palaces of California's ultra-rich, into the dark closets of a family's disturbing past, and finally into the alleyways of the mind, where childhood terrors still hold sway.
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This was a terriffic book - which highlights the confusion and craziness of the borderline personality.
Truly Alex, at times seemed borderline -
When treating a borderline personality, this is indeed how you feel - crazy.
Kellerman took us into the borderline's world - the confusion of reality/unreality, identity shifts, fragmented world and fragmented childhood.
Kellerman was brave to take on a storyline like this - combining borderline, at times what seemed like multiple personality (because of the three disturbed twins), the world of treatment and psychotherapy, as well as the fallout - as it affected others in the borderlines' worlds.
This was quite a feat!
Yes, at times it was confusing - and that's how working with borderlines is.
I had to reread parts of the book with a few of the twists and turns.
Great book!
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Jonathan Kellerman is a fine writer with a very compelling sense of style. This book, like all of his Alex Delaware books, was fun to read and I recommend it overall.
However, I found the storyline of this book to be incredibly complicated and ultimately quite implausable. Indeed, the last 100 pages of the book are solely devoted to explaining the incredibly convoluted plot! What I like about Kellerman is that his stories are pretty realistic -- but SILENT PARTNER is about as believable as the plotline of a daytime soap opera.
This novel also features quite a bit of sex. Alex Delaware is a good looking man, but is it necessary for four separate women to make a sexual pass at him? He politely turns all of them down, but how believable is that? Even James Bond doesn't get that many opportunites in the course of one book.
Overall, I give this book a mild recommendation. Don't make this your very first Delaware novel, you should instead read WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS, which I found far superior.
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This one is scary! The climax is scarier than that of Bad Love - and
that one is SCARY! Even though Alex ... well, I don't want to give
anything away, so I'll just leave it at that. Alex sure does get himself
into spooky situations. And he can't keep his mouth shut! Who would have
thought Alex would be such as smartalec?
In this one Alex and Robin are seperated and she's off finding herself
or something. In his boredom and despair, he agrees to attend a faculty
party celebrating the appointment of a new department head. Alex and his
friend Larry attend just to make snide remarks about Paul Kruse, the man
of honor. At the party, Alex spots an old flame and that's when all the
trouble starts.
Sharon corners him and all his conflicting emotions flood to the
surface. She says she is not doing so well and wants to get together
with him - just to talk. He agrees, but later, he regrets it and calls
to cancel, leaves a message on her machine. The subsequent day, she is dead -
an apparent suicide - and Alex blames himself. He flashes back to their
relationship in Grad School - which is pretty darned steamy - and then
starts digging - into her past as well as into his own soul and what he
finds isn't all that pretty.
At the start, Milo and Rick are off on a fishing trip and Milo's
description of this trip is pretty darned funny. Alex gets his friend
involved in all the mess, though, and then goes off on his own, leaving
poor Milo out in the cold. I hope he makes it up to Milo in the next
book.
Another book I couldn't put down - another sleepless night - I should
charge the author for my sleep deprivation therapy.
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I have read all of the Alex Delaware books and am eagerly awaiting his next, it made me want more of this interesting character! I have since read all his fiction novels, and love them all, but still think "Silent Partner" the best. So many odd twists and turns, not even the best arm chair detective can anticipate the plot. It held my attention from very first word to the last, and I hated to see it end. It was the book that hooked me on Jonathan Kellerman novels. The type of book you can read in one sitting.
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i enjoy the kellerman novels, but this one was a slight disappointment. a bit meandering, a little overwritten, several flashbacks, and with the most exciting interpersonal dynamics and scenes involving the antagonists being revealed, barely, in retrospective conversation. and finally, are they twins?, triplets?, multiple personalities?, borderlines verging on psychotic?, on and on and on. who knows? after 450 pages, one doesn't much care. with a *who's on first??* narrative that was not very enjoyable, but kind of irritating. what little psychological suspense there is, is eclipsed by the extended series of closing scenes. i hope the subsequent one is tighter. by the way, the length of the novel, for a mystery was not a problem at all, it was a content issue.
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