false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172410605m/172913.jpg 172913 30 Consulting psychologist Alex Delaware has a novel approach to crime-solving: he uses his training to unlock the secrets in the minds of the victims and jiggles the clues he finds there until the right scenario emerges. So when Alex's LAPD buddy Milo finds the hacked-up body of a woman psychologist named Claire Argent in an abandoned car trunk--the second such murder in eight months--Alex heads for her place of employment: the Starkweather State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.<p> One of Argent's patients at Starkweather is Ardis "Monster" Peake, imprisoned for the unbelievably brutal murders of his mother and the family she worked for, including a small child and a baby. There's at least one eerie similarity between the mutilation of their bodies and Argent's: in all the bodies, the eyes were taken or destroyed. But Peake, diagnosed as schizophrenic and psychotic, is a well-behaved vegetable due to a steady diet of Thorazine, and he hasn't left the hospital since his incarceration 15 years before. How is it, then, that Claire Argent's assistant, Heidi Ott, swears she heard Peake say, "Dr. A. Bad eyes in a box" soon after he hears only the bare fact of her death? And why does Alex find Peake so empathetic, in spite of his violent past and chillingly vacant mind? When other mutilated bodies turn up, Alex and Milo begin to suspect that the real monster is very much at large. Like Kellerman's 12 previous Alex Delaware mysteries, <I>Monster</I> builds to a big, teeth-clenching bang and ends with some very satisfying surprises. <I>--Barrie Trinkle</I> 2644236 1999 Monster (Alex Delaware Series, #13) total:1369|5:251|4:546|3:488|2:73|1:11| 1369 5060 1807 53 3 0 false false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 13:54:29 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 18:01:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jul 30 11:26:11 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 11:30:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 15:08:22 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 16:18:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 11:49:50 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 11:31:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 17 15:45:02 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 16:50:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 13:48:20 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 11:24:47 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 18:19:22 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 07:11:09 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 15:30:51 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 15:32:49 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 31 18:40:24 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 18:45:52 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 26 17:06:45 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 17:06:45 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 21:40:18 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 21:41:09 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Nov 15 16:39:16 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 16:39:21 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 02:34:49 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 14:04:34 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Jan 18 18:55:04 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 18:55:04 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jan 16 18:42:42 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 18:43:17 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Sep 27 19:19:25 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 19:19:47 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jul 27 08:18:03 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 08:19:02 -0700 2009 ]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Thu Jun 25 00:26:41 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 00:34:55 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Feb 03 10:46:38 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 10:47:03 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jul 28 12:15:31 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 12:15:50 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=172913