- Hardcover: 350 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; First Edition edition (7 Dec 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316646210
- ISBN-13: 978-0316646215
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.4 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,588,894 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Someone who kills a lot of people is a serial killer, except, perhaps, when they all wanted to die, and he is an advocate of euthanasia. Doctor Mate Doctor Death is found brutally tortured to death, strapped to his own painless death machine and tough LA cop Milo finds himself lumbered with the investigation. His usual adviser, psychologist Alex Delaware, has problems about helping him--Delaware treated the daughter of one of the women Mate helped die, and her father and brother both become suspects. An FBI man with a mission to track a serial killer in whom no one else believes involves himself in the case, claiming that two completely different sets of killings down the years can be attributed to the same man. Jonathan Kellerman has an inventive eye to the oddities of human nature and the things that lead people to kill--he is also solidly imaginative on the process of legwork which makes it possible to back up insights with actual knowledge. Doctor Death is a powerful and ingenious thriller in which Milo and Alex yet again discover things they never knew about the darkness of the human soul and about the limits of revenge. --Roz Kaveney
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'Strong insights into the quirks of human and criminal behaviour' (Guardian )
'Filled with insight' (Stephen King )
'Coolly intelligent' (GQ )
'A sense of humanity and justice' (Publishers Weekly )
'An alert eye for detail' (New York Times ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
'Filled with insight' (Stephen King )
'Coolly intelligent' (GQ )
'A sense of humanity and justice' (Publishers Weekly )
'An alert eye for detail' (New York Times ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Format:Paperback
Kellerman is back on top form as Alex Delaware takes on a case which causes him to examine himself and question his judgement as his friendship/ partnership with Milo Sturgis is put at risk. With sassy dialogue and slick plotting Kellerman again shows how California dreaming can lead to nightmares.
Eldon Mate brought death on demand to "travellers" seeking release from suffering. The law could not touch him, but now Dr Death, gruesomely hacked in Ripper style, has been killed by his own killing machine. Alex is brought in to consult in this high profile case but finds the family of one of his patients, Stacey Doss, critically involved. The psychological powder keg of Doss family secrets is set to explode: who will get caught in the blast?
While the net closes around Stacey's father, Alex searches for alternative solutions. Will duty of care strain his relationship with Milo beyond breaking point?
Forced to re-evaluate constantly as revelations shake his understanding of the Doss family, could Alex have misread the situation and be helping a killer?
Format:Paperback
This is a fast-paced book and certainly keeps you reading. However, I didn't feel it had much content and was almost "crime writing by numbers". The characters felt sketchy and the plot too strained.
Still, a light enough read.
Format:Hardcover
Dr Death is again a classic by Kellerman having read all of his books I do feel sort of qualified in reviewing this. It is a classic whoduunit and it has you thinking quite hard as to who the prime suspect or suspects are.You really feel at home with the old friends as they go once more on the trail of these people who could be ypur next door neighbour! Alex and Milo work very well together and this time there is little mention of their private lives, which, when you read the book you will understand why. A brilliant insight into human nature!
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