- Hardcover: 385 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; First Edition edition (1995)
- ISBN-10: 0316910848
- ISBN-13: 978-0316910842
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Alex Delaware arrives in Knife Island to investigate the physical and mental ills of the islanders. He finds a community about to be destroyed by developers and the murder of a young woman. But most horrifying of all, he learns of a human experiment perpetrated by the highest in government.
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Format:Paperback
In this novel Jonathan Kellerman bases his story outside of his usual territory of California but still with Alex and Robin Delaware. (Milo Sturgis, Alex's detective friend, makes "an appearance" by telephone but is in my opinion greatly missed.) The plot is based entirely on the tropical island and quickly gets going with action and character sub-plots. It was easy to get a visual picture and I could well imagine this becoming a film-plot. The enigmatic professor, that runs the island as a benevolent patriarch figure, is clearly disturbed and has an agenda which he only reveals bit by bit to Alex. Which I found makes the reader turn the pages quickly. I determined the characters either to be hateful or bland which was a bit of a disappointment but all in all I do not regret reading to the end.
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This is the first book by Jonathan Kellerman I have read. I very much enjoyed it but it wasn't until afterwards I found out that there are many books in the 'Alex Delaware' series. 'The Web' lies about half way through and having read other reviews appears to deviate from the regular setting of California.
The book starts with Alex (a psychologist) and his partner Robin Castagna arriving on the small Micronesian Island of Aruk. It is to be a working holiday for Alex, who has been contacted by the ageing Dr William Moreland, requesting that he catalogue the records the doctor has kept over the many years he has lived and worked there. The couple are invited to stay on his comfortable estate while Alex is working, but the seemingly paradise island and Dr Moreland are not all they seem. A brutal murder and some menacing characters add to the plot leaving the couple keen to leave as soon as possible.
This book is very cleverly written mainly because the author captures the relaxing atmosphere of the setting well (though some may consider the book slow because of this) but also manages to gradually build up a sense of menace to a very surprising ending.
I enjoyed the book and liked the characters enough to now be looking for the first in the series.
The book starts with Alex (a psychologist) and his partner Robin Castagna arriving on the small Micronesian Island of Aruk. It is to be a working holiday for Alex, who has been contacted by the ageing Dr William Moreland, requesting that he catalogue the records the doctor has kept over the many years he has lived and worked there. The couple are invited to stay on his comfortable estate while Alex is working, but the seemingly paradise island and Dr Moreland are not all they seem. A brutal murder and some menacing characters add to the plot leaving the couple keen to leave as soon as possible.
This book is very cleverly written mainly because the author captures the relaxing atmosphere of the setting well (though some may consider the book slow because of this) but also manages to gradually build up a sense of menace to a very surprising ending.
I enjoyed the book and liked the characters enough to now be looking for the first in the series.
Format:Paperback
Completely different in setting to all of the preceeding Alex Delaware novels, and distinctive for it's lack of Milo Sturgis (he does phone a couple of times). Instead of LA this is set on a tiny Micronesian island, where Alex and Robin have gone on a semi vacation. Needless to say there is more going on in the tiny village than Alexs benefactor would have them believe. It gets like a Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mystery thriller (which the characters themselves joke about) at times, but it doesn't detract from what is one of the more intriguing plots of any Kellerman novel.
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