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22nd out of 57 books
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84 voters
Twisted (Petra Connor #2)
Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has helped psychologist Alex Delaware crack tough cases in the past. And in Jonathan Kellerman’s New York Times bestseller Billy Straight she took the lead in the desperate hunt for a teenage runaway stalked by a vengeful murderer. Now the complex and wryly compassionate Petra is once again at the center of the action, in a novel o...more
Paperback, 416 pages
Published
September 27th 2005
by Ballantine Books
(first published 2004)
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Really great Kellerman story stars Petra and Latino genius !
We're long-time Jonathan Kellerman fans, and have generally enjoyed his entire book list. We've noticed his last few books seemed to lack some of the interest and pizzazz of the earlier ones, particularly those featuring his leading man Alex Delaware. Noticing that "Twisted" is his fifth novel published in the last 24 months, counting his somewhat disappointing book co-authored with wife Faye ["Double Homicide"], we didn't have particul...more
We're long-time Jonathan Kellerman fans, and have generally enjoyed his entire book list. We've noticed his last few books seemed to lack some of the interest and pizzazz of the earlier ones, particularly those featuring his leading man Alex Delaware. Noticing that "Twisted" is his fifth novel published in the last 24 months, counting his somewhat disappointing book co-authored with wife Faye ["Double Homicide"], we didn't have particul...more
First a confession, I rarely buy books. I use the library, my grandfather's cousin gave a significant part of his fortune to build libraries so in his honor I use the library. As a child the monthly classroom book order (Scholastic I think) got most of my cash. I spent change on comic books too, ten cents, fifteen cents, then twenty five cents. I'm old snickers were a nickle then too. Anyway when I'm away from home and I have finished reading the book or books I have brought with me I buy a book...more
L’inspectrice du commissariat d’Hollywood Petra Connor a souvent aidé le psychologue Alex
Delaware à résoudre des affaires difficiles. Cette fois, elle se retrouve seule pour élucider un
quadruple meurtre dans le parking d’un dancing à la mode. Abattues par un tireur qui passait en
voiture, les victimes semblent avoir été tuées au hasard. Une seule d’entre elles - elle portait des
tennis roses - n’est toujours pas identifiée plusieurs jours après le massacre. Sans aucune piste et
sans aucun mobile ap...more
Delaware à résoudre des affaires difficiles. Cette fois, elle se retrouve seule pour élucider un
quadruple meurtre dans le parking d’un dancing à la mode. Abattues par un tireur qui passait en
voiture, les victimes semblent avoir été tuées au hasard. Une seule d’entre elles - elle portait des
tennis roses - n’est toujours pas identifiée plusieurs jours après le massacre. Sans aucune piste et
sans aucun mobile ap...more
L.A. homicide detective Petra Conner (showcased in Kellerman's "A Cold Heart") takes center stage here in trying to solve a drive-by shooting at a nightclub that leaves four dead. She's aided by genius Isaac Gomez, a nerdy 22 year old who's working on his dissertation. He values Petra's opinion but is torn between fitting into the world of education, prestige and intellectualism and the crime-ridden neighborhood where his family lives and tries to survive. Isaac believes that several cold cases...more
I didn't think it was possible for a book to lose two stars in the post-climax tie-up. I was wrong. Jonathan Kellerman does a terrific job of developing the character of protagonist Petra Connor as a competent, complex, rational detective who fully understands the consequences of her actions in the field. Like many fictional detectives, she colors outside of the lines on a regular basis, but always for the purpose of catching the bad guy.
The climax to Twisted wasn't the pulse pounder that I anti...more
The climax to Twisted wasn't the pulse pounder that I anti...more
Kellerman is one of those authors I can always count on delivering a good story and characters I find believable. His prose is always readable.
I generally pick up his books in hardcover when they're released. One of the few authors I read in hardcover, but it's always worth the expense.
When you find an author who makes reading fun, you enjoy going back to them again and again.
Twisted is not one of his Alex Delaware novels, instead following the character Petra Connor. She was introduced in the s...more
I generally pick up his books in hardcover when they're released. One of the few authors I read in hardcover, but it's always worth the expense.
When you find an author who makes reading fun, you enjoy going back to them again and again.
Twisted is not one of his Alex Delaware novels, instead following the character Petra Connor. She was introduced in the s...more
In Kellerman’s second book to focus exclusively on LAPD detective Petra Connor, Petra is involved in two cases simultaneously. First, four teens are gunned down at a concert with no apparent motive and one victim is proving difficult to identify. Second, Petra’s genius intern has identified a pattern of murders occurring on June 28 every year with the same cause of death.
Both investigations move at a realistic pace (which I appreciate, because a lot of crime shows and novels portray crimes as be...more
Both investigations move at a realistic pace (which I appreciate, because a lot of crime shows and novels portray crimes as be...more
I almost gave this one up just a few pages in. There's a gang style drive-by shooting in which 'every single bullet' hits someone, and where a couple of folks are hit multiple times in lethal zones. I doubt that's ever happened in reality. It really threw me completely out of the story and if I hadn't been on a day trip and had no other book to read I would have put the novel down right there.
I did continue though, and in general I came to like it quite a lot better by the end. The characters w...more
I did continue though, and in general I came to like it quite a lot better by the end. The characters w...more
As might be expected by an accomplished mystery writer like Kellerman, the book has subplots and twist, and reveals. It moves smoothly with from start to finish with interesting characters and enough intrigue, sex, and violence, to keep the story interesting without becoming morbid, prurient, or dull.
My only complaint, is the editing. I read the first edition where 77 centimeters equaled three inches, and where drunks in mid-June were characterized starting St. Patrick's Day early. Happy to repo...more
My only complaint, is the editing. I read the first edition where 77 centimeters equaled three inches, and where drunks in mid-June were characterized starting St. Patrick's Day early. Happy to repo...more
Well, I finished this. For some reason I had set it aside some time ago (audio) and forgot I was listening to it. Unlike most of the Kellerman series it doesn't feature Alex Delaware and his friend Milo, rather Detective Petra Connor and Eric, her erstwhile lover, who apparently walks on water. The show stealer is Isaac, a PhD candidate interning with the police department, who, through diligent research and a hell of a randy librarian, manages to find the connection between the killer and his v...more
Petra Conner is faced with solving a shooting murder outside a nightclub that left four young kids dead. The young girl who can't be identified seems to be the key to the case. Meanwhile, Petra is also playing mentor to Isaac Gomez, a wonderboy working on his Ph.D. disseratation, collecting data from the homicide squad. Isaac has discovered what he thinks is a pattern...there's a serial killer who's been committing murders in L.A. for years and no one has put the pattern together before this. Th...more
A fine novel. Interesting plot, not too over the top. Kellerman writes a story centered on Petra Connor, the Hollywood homicide detective from Billy Straight and A cold heart. The secondary characters are well rounded and somewhat unpredictable. We are reintroduced to Eric Stahl, who's become attached to the anti terrorist unit and no longer partnered with Petra but has become her long distance lover.
Kellerman also created a character that could have been the ultimate Marty Sue but somewhat isn'...more
Kellerman also created a character that could have been the ultimate Marty Sue but somewhat isn'...more
The story wasn't very cohesive. At the end I was left wondering why storylines were included since they ended 3/4 of the way through the book. Also, there were several characters that were included that never really were developed, made to be a part of the main story, but not really to the full extent, so you are left wondering why they were even included. All in all, it felt like the book was written by two different people who never really tried to tie it all together.
Unlike the Delaware series, Kellerman is able to find a new, fresh voice – that of Petra O’Connor, a compassionate but tough female Hollywood detective. Add the brainy Isaac Gomez and you’d barely know that Twisted was by the same author. Both characters are smart, and the plot moves along at a steady pace; indulging in little back-stories that pertain to the central storyline.
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Although I was interested enough to finish the book, I had trouble getting over the police-procedural hump. It's difficult to convince me that the characters/cops are personally involved in the outcome, which leaves getting the bad guy off the street as my only draw. There were 2 bad guys (main plot and subplot) in this case, and they were awful enough to motivate pretty much anybody. Most interesting to me was the young genius intern.
One of the books on the commute, the protagonist is policewoman Petra Connor. She is helped in this book by genius college student Isaac Gomez. Isaac finds an anomaly in unsolved homicides of bludgeonings that all happen on June 28 over a period of years. Method and date are consistent, but the places and victims are very dissimilar...and Petra is also following a murder in her precinct. Very predictable and unremarkable.
4 kids gunned down outside of a dance club; who and why? Petra Conner, detective,is assigned to investigate. It's slow going to figuring out whodunit, and one of the victims is not reported missing and remains unidentified. In a subplot, Isaac Gomez, boy genius, picks up a pattern of murder, every year on the same date by bashing in the head. Petra gets drawn into investigating this on the side. Good story line.
I enjoyed the story and the problems of investigation that Kellerman set up for his protaganist Petra Connor to deal with. I liked the back story information regarding the Isaac Gomez character and would like to see him again maybe in his own story. While I have read one or two of the Alex Delaware stories I did not like them as much as I did this one. I am looking forward to more Petra Connor stories in the future.
I like Jonathan Kellerman mysteries across the board so far. His characters are interesting, with depth. I get a strong sense of them and they seem very real. He delves into some very twisted psyches, and I am fascinated by that kind of thing. He also knows how to braid several plot lines together into an intriguing whole at the end. All that in a package that in an easy read.
A good but in my opinion not a great story. Dragged a little in some places and left me a little wanting. The end was a real twist I didn't figure out the killer and probably never would have so that in my book was a plus. The characters were pretty good, I thought Petra was a little over the top with the "I'm a tough woman detective" act but for the most part the characters weren't portrayed that bad even if I thought they were a little bland. I may not be a real good critic of Kellerman's book...more
Good book that doesn't take a lot of time to "get into." Two cases going on at the same time--one that Petra is supposed to be working on, and a serial killing that her genius intern discovered from the past, but it isn't as politically important. According to the pattern, she has only a few days before the next murder takes place.
In my opinion this was genre mixing at it's worst. Kellerman took a taut mystery plot and scrambled with a subplot that belongs in a romance novel. I enjoyed the mystery part. Found the romance cloying.
There are other ways he also seems to be losing his edge -- or maybe that falls on the editors -- when did "10 and 3" become the proper position of hands on the steering wheel?
There are other ways he also seems to be losing his edge -- or maybe that falls on the editors -- when did "10 and 3" become the proper position of hands on the steering wheel?
I read Jonathan Kellerman but, honestly, I can't tell you why. I find his characters unbelievable, well at least in the ways they interact with one another and his dialogue extremely verbose and tedious. I guess the nicest thing I can say about his books, this one included, is that there's comfort in predictability.
Kellerman pulls off a feat many genre writers cannot. He's created a new and very satisfying character who can take the spotlight from his franchise-building characters Alex Deleware and Milo Sturgis. Petra Connor is a good, strong character who left me NOT wishing that Alex and Milo would turn up in the next chapter.
Det. Petra Connor is on the case of a night-club shooting where 6 teens were violently struck down. No one is talking and Petra fears the case will run cold. Meanwhile she is set up to mentor a grad student, Isaac Gomez. Isaac is crazy smart and turns her on to a cold case with an eerie pattern. Stumped on her active case she follows the interns lead. Meanwhile she struggles with her love and professional lives.
Another fantastic thriller by Jonathan Kellerman. He covers police beaurocracy and in...more
Another fantastic thriller by Jonathan Kellerman. He covers police beaurocracy and in...more
Jonathan Kellerman is one of my favorite authors! All of his books that I have read do a great job at keeping my attention and they're easy to get wrapped up in. Twisted did just that! I was able to read through it easily and escape my world for a while. Although I do have to say I'm not so sure I like the Petra series as much as the Alex Delaware series, but I'll just have to read another to be a fair judge on that! :)
Pretty good police procedural. Dragged a bit in the middle--not enough suspects, too many descriptions of clothes and meals and traffic patterns. Really good ending, though.
I used to read a lot of Kellerman books. I liked this one enough to finish it, but not enough to seek out more by him.
I used to read a lot of Kellerman books. I liked this one enough to finish it, but not enough to seek out more by him.
typical Kellerman. story is engagins and characters are interesting. handled a gory subject in a readable way. this author never disappoints! i liked reading this story about one of the characters from his Alex Delaware series. can a book be called a spin off?
Kellerman's mystery novels are virtually unrivaled. Twisted in particular sticks out, while the book is occaisonally graphic, it's fascinating, especially if you have an interest in criminal psychology. You literally cannot put this down, which isn't much of a surprise given who wrote it.
Started out really good and interesting but seemed like he rushed to finish the book at the very end like he got bored with writing it or had OCD. I even found two misspelled words in the last chapter where I had not noticed any before. Lame.
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Jonathan Kellerman was born in New York City in 1949 and grew up in Los Angeles. He helped work his way through UCLA as an editorial cartoonist, columnist, editor and freelance musician. As a senior, at the age of 22, he won a Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for fiction.
Like his fictional protagonist, Alex Delaware, Jonathan received at Ph.D. in psychology at the age of 24, with a specialty in the t...more
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