- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Headline Book Publishing; First edition (10 Nov 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0755307313
- ISBN-13: 978-0755307319
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,247,213 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jonathan Kellerman has 30m copies of his crime novels in print. It is useful to bear this statistic in mind as another one joins them. For this is a market hungry for new product, and this book will not disappoint. Kellerman is the world's number one psychological thriller writer, delivering book after book, much to the delight of his huge readership. Here, Jeremy Carrier, a young psychologist, is plunged into the world of violent crime when his girlfriend is kidnapped and brutally murdered. Soon other women are discovered similarly despatched, and the police treat Carrier as a suspect. The only way to prove his innocence is to find the killer, or killers, himself. Tense stuff. And for the bookshop crime buyer, the only worry is how high to make the pile.
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Dedicated young psychologist Dr Jeremy Carrier is unschooled in the ways of violent crime and incalculable evil - until his life is irreversibly touched by both. When his romance wit nurse Jocelyn Banks is cut short by her kidnapping and brutal murder, he is left emotionally devastated and being warily eyed by the police.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I thought that I was not going to enjoy this novel very much because of the change in main character. I haven't read all the Delaware novels yet, but I enjoyed enormously those I have read. In the Conspiracy Club Kellerman sticks to what has made him a best-selling author...a psychologist involved in a mystery as main character.
After his girlfriend is murdered in a gruesome manner, Dr. Jeremy Carrier is considered the main suspect by the police. As other girls are murdered this suspicion intensifies and Jeremy finds himself looking for the killer with the help of a stranger that sends anonymous messages and clues to him through the hospital mail. The clues started coming after he was invited to a "secret" dinner by one of the doctors on staff, Dr. Chess. In this dinner Jeremy met four very intriguing elderly people that piqued his curiosity and whose backgrounds are part of the solution to the mystery.
The novel is very well written and keeps you on edge, presenting a considerable variety of suspects and a very interesting plot. I couldn't put it down!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Sorry if my title sounds sexist but I do like crime but this one just wasn't one for me. It was my first dip into his work and although it won't be the last, I won't rush out for any more. I found the vocabulary choices quite inappropriate at times and high class words stood out like a sore thumb. I didn't feel it lived up to the blurb.
Dr Jeremy Carrier did not appeal to me as a character at all. The only one who did was Dr Arthur Chess. Carrier often has an inner dialogue which became quite irritating. The plot, although formulaic, did keep me reading. Basically, Carrier is given clues to a series of murders carried out in the same gruesom fashipn as his girlfriend's. I thought they must have been together for a long time but it was only a matter of months.
With characters who were difficult to bond with, I don't really know who this book would appeal to. If you want to read a book whilst on a plance then this would be it. If you're looking for something deep and meaningful look elsewhere.
I do have others of his at home to read but I'm afraid they'll be pushed to the back of my tbr pile!
Dr Jeremy Carrier did not appeal to me as a character at all. The only one who did was Dr Arthur Chess. Carrier often has an inner dialogue which became quite irritating. The plot, although formulaic, did keep me reading. Basically, Carrier is given clues to a series of murders carried out in the same gruesom fashipn as his girlfriend's. I thought they must have been together for a long time but it was only a matter of months.
With characters who were difficult to bond with, I don't really know who this book would appeal to. If you want to read a book whilst on a plance then this would be it. If you're looking for something deep and meaningful look elsewhere.
I do have others of his at home to read but I'm afraid they'll be pushed to the back of my tbr pile!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Psychologist Jeremy Carrier's life fell apart when the love of his life was brutally murdered and though six months have gone by, he is still shattered by her death, and the fact that he was a suspect in his girlfriend's murder made his ordeal infinitely worse.
Now Homicide detective Bob Doresh is back at the hospital with more questions. A forty-five year old prostitute named Tyrene Mazursky has been murdered in the same fashion and Doresh wants to know if Jeremy has an alibi. Then another prostitute is murdered.
Dr. Arthur Chess, sort of a professor emeritus at the hospital where Jeremy works, befriends him and invites him to a get together with several other oldsters who have irregular meetings to discuss whatever catches their fancy and now it looks like conspiracy, serial killers and unsolved murders have caught their interest.
Slowly Chess feeds Jeremy clues as he feels the pressure of the police closing in and the urgency of having to solve the murder before the killer strikes again or the police arrest him and throw away the key.
Kellerman has introduced a new protagonist and though he's not the Alex Delaware we've come to know and love, I suspect we'll be seen more of Dr. Carrier in the next couple of years and I for one wouldn't mind that at all.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
Now Homicide detective Bob Doresh is back at the hospital with more questions. A forty-five year old prostitute named Tyrene Mazursky has been murdered in the same fashion and Doresh wants to know if Jeremy has an alibi. Then another prostitute is murdered.
Dr. Arthur Chess, sort of a professor emeritus at the hospital where Jeremy works, befriends him and invites him to a get together with several other oldsters who have irregular meetings to discuss whatever catches their fancy and now it looks like conspiracy, serial killers and unsolved murders have caught their interest.
Slowly Chess feeds Jeremy clues as he feels the pressure of the police closing in and the urgency of having to solve the murder before the killer strikes again or the police arrest him and throw away the key.
Kellerman has introduced a new protagonist and though he's not the Alex Delaware we've come to know and love, I suspect we'll be seen more of Dr. Carrier in the next couple of years and I for one wouldn't mind that at all.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
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My first experience of Kellermans work, slightly disappointed.
A friend of mine is a massive JK fan and recommended that I tried his stories. Its my own fault that I chose one of his stand alone novels to begin with, as I have been reliably... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Cricketer427
Interesting and Original Tale
It seems strange reading a Jonathan Kellerman which does not involve Alex Delaware particularly since our new hero, Jeremy Carrier, is also a psychologist. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Brett H
CLEVER AND ENGAGING
A good thriller with a surprising amount of depth in it.
Well written with characters you can believe in and a plot that is believable. Read more
Well written with characters you can believe in and a plot that is believable. Read more
Published 12 months ago by J. Colin Moss
Brilliant read
Fabulous book, keeps the reader interested from start to finish, as well as keeping them guessing right to the very end. Read more
Published 12 months ago by y4yvonne
Not bad at all
I don't usually read this author so I thought I would give him a chance.(I read The Murder Book some time ago, damned good book) I enjoyed The conspiracy Club, but I found myself... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Jolly Olly
Interesting - if not gripping
Kellerman always satisfies and had me gripped about 2/3rds of the way in. Always takes a while to get going but when it does it goes.
Published 12 months ago by Ashok Misra
The Conspiracy Club by Jonathan Kellerman
This is the first book that I have read from Jonathan Kellerman. I very much enjoyed it, with all the intrigue and twists and turns that make it almost impossible to put down. Read more
Published 13 months ago by John Howard
Is JK paid by the word?
This is the first of book I have read by J Kellerman but doubt I shall bother with any more. What a load of irrelevant mud one has to wade through to get to the plot. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Annie
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Published 13 months ago by ladybabe
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