Private Eyes (Alex Delaware)
by Jonathan Kellerman
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Author: Jonathan KellermanEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-04-01
ISBN: 0345460707
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: Enjoyable, but Slow Paced
Summary: 3 Stars
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.
Summary of Private Eyes (Alex Delaware)
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.Contemporary Books
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