Before I dive into my Teaser Tuesday post, I’m excited to announce that Endowed with Death, the eighth book in the Kenzie Kirsch Medical Thrillers series, is out!
If you’re a fan of forensic crime fiction and medical mysteries, Endowed with Death is an entertaining and thought-provoking story that will keep you turning the pages.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This mesmerizing tale is sure to keep you up late reading “just one more chapter” until you come to the realization that you are not going to put this book down until you have finished the very last sentence.
Endowed with Death is a powerful story that will stay with you long after you’ve finished reading. Join Kenzie today on her quest for justice.
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I have read a number of Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware books, and I always enjoy them. I am about a third of the way through Over the Edge, book 3 in the series, and I’m not sure what Alex will eventually be able to unwind. At this point in the story, it seems as though his client is guilty of at least one murder, possibly, eight, but between you and me, I am not sure that is the case.
Is Jamey really schizophrenic, a victim of the same malady as struck down his grandmother and father? Or is there something more sinister at play and he is being drugged or gaslighted? I’m not convinced that everyone around him is telling the truth. While Alex has been hired to get Jamey off with a diminished capacity defense, I suspect Alex will unwind the web of deceit to find that Jamey is not a serial killer after all, but was being set up all along. I’d like to see Dr. Delaware help restore Jamey to health, not just get him off on a technicality.
As always, Kellerman’s intricate storytelling keeps pulling me in, eagerly anticipating each twist and turn. I can’t wait to see how Alex unravels the mystery and uncovers the real truth behind Jamey’s predicament. Over the Edge is shaping up to be another thrilling addition to the Alex Delaware series, and I can’t wait to see how it all plays out.
I’m in hellstink, Dr. D. Hell’s bells. A glass canyon.
Jonathan Kellerman, Over the Edge
Summary
From the New York Times bestselling author of Serpentine comes a thrilling novel in the Alex Delaware series about a psychologist called in to help when a former patient is accused of committing a string of chilling murders.
When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. Driving through the dream-lit San Fernando Valley, Alex rushes to Jamey Cadmus, the patient he had failed five years before—and who now calls with a bizarre cry for help. But by the time Alex reaches Canyon Oaks Psychiatric Hospital, Jamey is gone, surfacing a day later in the hands of the police, who believe Jamey is the infamous Lavender Slasher, a psychotic serial killer. Wooed by a high-powered attorney to build a defense, Alex will get a chance to do what he couldn’t five years ago. And when he peers into a family’s troubled history and Jamey’s brilliant, tormented mind, the psychologist puts himself at the heart of a high-profile case. Because Alex knows that in a realm of money, loss, and madness, something terrible pushed Jamey over the edge—or else someone is getting away with murder.
