Flesh and Blood - Jonathan Kellerman

Perennial bestseller and acknowledged master of the psychological thriller, Jonathan
Kellerman has created a riveting and memorable Alex Delaware
novel about a troubled and elusive young woman whose brutal murder forces the brilliant
psychologist-detective to confront his own fallibility.

Lauren Teague is a beautiful,
defiant, borderline-delinquent teenager when her parents bring her to Alex Delaware's
office. But for all Alex's skill and effort, Lauren resists-angrily, provocatively.
Reluctantly, the psychologist chalks Lauren up as one of the inevitable failures
of a challenging profession. But years later, when Alex encounters Lauren as a stag
party's featured entertainment, both doctor and patient are sticken with shame. And
the ultimate horror takes place when, soon after, Lauren's brutalized corpse is found
dumped in an alley. Alex disregards the advice of his trusted friend, LAPD detective
Milo Sturgis, and jeopardizes his relationship with longtime lover, Robin Castagna,
in order to pursue Lauren's murderer. As he investigates his young patient's troubled
past, Alex enters the shadowy worlds of fringe psychological experimentation and
the sex industry, and then into mortal danger when lust and big money collide in
Southern California.

Jonathan Kellerman's L.A. is evil, seductive, and unforgiving,
and Flesh and Blood is mind-opening in its drama of a driven man's personal quest,
breathtaking in its ingenious plot, filled with unforgettable characters, and topped
off by a terrifying climax. This is suspense fiction at its finest.