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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780345460707
ISBN number: 0345460707
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 560
Printing Date: April 01, 2003
Publishing house: Ballantine Books
Release Date: April 01, 2003
Sale Popularity Level: 70514
Studio: Ballantine Books
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The voice belongs to a woman, but Dr. Alex  Delaware remembers a little girl. It is eleven  years since seven-years-old Melissa Dickinson dialed  a hospital help line for comfort--and found it in  therapy with Alex Delaware. Now the lovely young  heiress is desperately calling for psychologist's  help once more. Only this time it looks like  Melissa's deepest childhood nightmare is really  coming true ...  Twenty years ago, Gina Dickinson, Melissa's  mother, suffered a grisly assault that left the budding  actress irreparably scarred and emotionally  crippled. Now her acid-wielding assailant is out of  prison and back in L.A.--and Melissa is terrified  that the monster has returned to hurt Gina again.  But before Alex Delaware  can even begin to soothe his former patient's  fears, Gina, a recluse for twenty, disappears. And  now, unless Delaware turns crack detective to  uncover the truth, Gina Dickinson will be just one  more victim of a cold fury that has already spawned  madness--and murder.
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I enjoy Jonathan Kellerman's Alex Delaware series, but I think certain entries are better than others. PRIVATE EYES isn't a great Kellerman novel, but it's enjoyable enough if you like psychological thrillers.
Kellerman is undoubtedly a very gifted author, but I find his writing style a little too long winded. In PRIVATE EYES, Kellerman takes a great deal of time developing his "missing person" plot, with long stretches of ponderous dialogue that serve no real purpose. Most of the dialogue is actually quite rich and fascinating, but it begins wearing thin once you reach the halfway point. This is ultimately a rather slow paced novel with some tedious moments, and I think a stronger editor could have dramatically strengthened the story with some judicious editing.
PRIVATE EYES also suffers from an absolutely absurd ending. I've read about eight Kellerman novels, and he seems overly fond of convulted plots with outlandish finishes. Given Kellerman's obvious intelligence, I think he could have offered a smarter conclusion than what I found here.
Overall, PRIVATE EYES is moderately enjoyable, but my advice is to read WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS if you want to read a great Kellerman book.
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Alex Delaware does it again! Jonathan Kellerman writes amazing mysteries and I love his Alex Delaware series. Highly recommend reading!
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Kellerman's character Alex Delaware once again captures the psychological mystery lover's reading mind. I have read most of Faye Kellerman's Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus detective novels and have now discovered Alex Delaware. I am trying to read the novels in a series to follow the personal history of the characters as well which Kellerman does so masterfully. It is a good read for the crime detective lover!
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What a great book. Kept me buried in it till I was finished. The ending really was exciting. I love Jonathan Kellerman books. He makes you feel like you are right there watching almost like tv but reading instead.
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I stumbled onto Jonathan Kellerman peripherally, since I enjoy his wife's novels. Although I have read Private Eyes out of order of the Alex Delaware series, I didn't have any trouble accepting it as a stand-alone novel, nor did I feel there was something missing by not having read the earlier novels.
The book had a bit of the feel of an adventure or mystery computer game, where you just keep going back and forth to non-player characters to get new information, go complete a little side quest to unlock more information, and then go back to the same NPCs to get different conversations. However, the characters were an interesting and varied bunch of suspicious and neurotic people. During my reading of the book, there wasn't a single person other than Dr. Delaware himself who didn't come under suspicion, however briefly.
Alex Delaware is contacted by Melissa Dickinson, a patient he hasn't seen in nine years. She is now graduating high school and wants to go off to Harvard, but she's worried about her severely agoraphobic mother and needs Delaware's advice. When Melissa's mother turns up missing, Delaware, as Melissa's therapist, joins the investigation to find her. Any more twists and turns and surprise sub-plots, and I'd suggest that Kellerman should open his own pretzel factory, but it made for fascinating reading and I enjoyed it immensely. I'll look for more Delaware stories by Mr. Kellerman.
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