NIGHT MOVES

By Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Kellerman is back with his friends and characters beloved by readers everywhere, Detective Milo Sturgis and Dr. Alex Delaware, psychologist/advisor to the police. This great relationship has gone on for years, and has definitely endured the passage of time.

As always, Milo calls Alex late one night with news of a strange new murder to solve. It seems that a family, out for supper, returned home and settled down for a spot of “family time” before heading off to sleep. But when the father of the group runs downstairs to find some reading material to help him get some shut-eye, instead of a great book on the shelf, he finds a mutilated dead body on the floor. It seems that the body has been basically blown away, but the hands have also been removed which will make it even more difficult to identify the victim and begin to understand why on earth this body was placed in this very “normal” family home to begin with.

This case grows stranger and stranger as it progresses, bringing in the backstories and lives of odd neighbors, a young teenager, and a whole lot of families who are just a little ‘funny’ as the twists and turns mount up page after page. The entire police force, it seems, along with Alex are all looking into different ways on why and how this crime occurred. But, as it always is with Kellerman, no reader will even guess the finale of this one.

There are people who remember Alex Delaware from his first appearance in the world of suspense fiction back in 1985. And perhaps it still surprises one and all that even though the good doctor has been around for decades, every crime that lands in his lap is new, fresh and an expertly carved puzzle that seems even better than the one that came before.