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A Cold Heart (Alex Delaware, Bk 17) (Audio CD) (Abridged)
A Cold Heart - Alex Delaware, Bk 17 - Audio CD - Abridged Author:Jonathan Kellerman, John Rubinstein (Narrator) A Cold Heart features John Kellermanâs brilliant signature style -- but in this tour-de-force he mines even deeper the emotional landscape of his characters: psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis, Miloâs colleague Petra Connor, and Alexâs ex-lover, Robin Castagna -- bringin... more »g them all vividly to life as never before.
âIâve got a weird one, so naturally I thought of you,â says Milo Sturgis, summoning his friend Alex to the trendy gallery where a promising young artist has been brutally garroted on the night of her first major showing. What makes it âa weird oneâ is the lack of any obvious motive, and the luridly careful staging of the murder scene -- which immediately suggests to Alex not an impulsive crime of passion ... but the meticulous and taunting modus operandi of a serial killer.
Delawareâs suspicion is borne out when he compares notes with Miloâs associate, Petra Connor, and her new partner, a strange, taciturn detective with a past of his own named Eric Stahl. The Hollywood cops are investigating the vicious death of Baby Boy Lee, a noted blues guitarist, fatally stabbed after a late-night set at a local club. What links Baby Boyâs murder with that of painter Juliet Kipper is the shadowy presence of an abrasive fanzine writer. This alias-shrouded criticâs love-the-art / disdain-the-artist philosophy and his morbid fascination with the murders leads Alex and the detectives to suspect theyâre facing a new breed of celebrity stalker: one with a fetish for snuffing out rising stars.
Tracking down the killer proves to be maddening, with the twisting trail leading from halfway houses to palatial mansions and from a college campus to the last place Alex ever expected: the doorstep of his ex-lover Robin Castagna, whose business association with two of the victims casts her as an unavoidable player in the unfolding case. As more and more killings are discovered, unraveling the maddening puzzle assumes a chilling new importance -- stopping a vicious psychopath whoâs made cold-blood murder his chosen art form.
Abridged: 5 Compact Discs, Running Time: 6 hours, Narrator: John Rubinstein« less