In
a host of consecutive bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman has kept readers
spellbound with the intense, psychologically acute adventures of Dr.
Alex Delaware-and with excursions through the raw underside of L.A. and
the coldest alleys of the criminal mind.Rage offers a powerful
new case in point, as Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis
revisit a horrifying crime from the past that has taken on shocking and
deadly new dimensions.
Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely
teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a
remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking,
slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one,
he's emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to
talk-once again-with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer
comes to a brutal end, that conversation never takes place.
Has
karma caught up with Rand? Or has someone waited for eight patient years
to dine on ice-cold revenge? Both seem strong possibilities to Sturgis,
but Delaware's suspicions run deeper . . . and darker. Because fear in
the voice of the grownup Rand Duchay-and his eerie final words to Alex:
"I'm not a bad person"-betray untold secrets. Buried revelations so horrendous, and so damning, they're worth killing for.
As
Delaware and Sturgis retrace their steps through a grisly murder case
that devastated a community, they discover a chilling legacy of madness,
suicide, and multiple killings left in its wake-and even uglier truths
waiting to be unearthed. And the nearer they come to understanding an
unspeakable crime, the more harrowingly close they get to unmasking a
monster hiding in plain sight.
Rage finds Jonathan Kellerman in
phenomenal form-orchestrating a relentlessly suspenseful, devilishly
unpredictable plot to a finale as stunning and thought-provoking as it
is satisfying.
Description:
Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he's emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to talk-once again-with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comes to a brutal end, that conversation never takes place.
Has karma caught up with Rand? Or has someone waited for eight patient years to dine on ice-cold revenge? Both seem strong possibilities to Sturgis, but Delaware's suspicions run deeper . . . and darker. Because fear in the voice of the grownup Rand Duchay-and his eerie final words to Alex: "I'm not a bad person"-betray untold secrets. Buried revelations so horrendous, and so damning, they're worth killing for.
As Delaware and Sturgis retrace their steps through a grisly murder case that devastated a community, they discover a chilling legacy of madness, suicide, and multiple killings left in its wake-and even uglier truths waiting to be unearthed. And the nearer they come to understanding an unspeakable crime, the more harrowingly close they get to unmasking a monster hiding in plain sight.
Rage finds Jonathan Kellerman in phenomenal form-orchestrating a relentlessly suspenseful, devilishly unpredictable plot to a finale as stunning and thought-provoking as it is satisfying.