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Gone (Alex Delaware, Bk 20)
Gone - Alex Delaware, Bk 20
Author: Jonathan Kellerman
Los Angeles is full of performers. For psychologist Alex Delaware, finding out what's real and what's not is about to become a matter of life and horrific death... Called to evalutate an aspiring actress accused - along with her boyfriend of staging her own abduction, Alex is indifferent when the case seems to go nowhere. But, then the girl is s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780718148225
ISBN-10: 0718148223
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 400
Rating:
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4.3 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Penguin Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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reviewed Gone (Alex Delaware, Bk 20) on + 55 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
"Gone" is a more cerebral offering to the Alex Delaware series, with more attention than usual paid to the psychology of actors than the crimes themselves, and yet, in the end, we're left with no real answers, not even anything very concrete as to why the crimes occurred in the first place. Alex seems to be wandering in this one, as he re-evaluates his life, and the changes that take place - with Robin's return and Allison's slow fade - exemplify that. The distance Alex takes makes it hard to care about much of anything except his relationship with Milo. I'll freely admit half the reason I love these books is because of Milo, so getting to see him so much is a joy. It's the interactions between him and Alex in this one that make it readable, not necessarily the mysteries themselves.
reviewed Gone (Alex Delaware, Bk 20) on + 13 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
another winner from kellerman- i love this character and again the twists are amazing.
Sunshine avatar reviewed Gone (Alex Delaware, Bk 20) on + 142 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
Another good Alex Delaware book. This one kept me guessing.
reviewed Gone (Alex Delaware, Bk 20) on
Helpful Score: 1
One of my favorite authors and this is one of his best.
reviewed Gone (Alex Delaware, Bk 20) on + 54 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Great book. Alex and Milo rock!
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yolojoan avatar reviewed Gone (Alex Delaware, Bk 20) on + 38 more book reviews
This one has a lot of twists and turns.
reviewed Gone (Alex Delaware, Bk 20) on + 121 more book reviews
I really liked it, especially the ending.
reviewed Gone (Alex Delaware, Bk 20) on + 44 more book reviews
Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis embark on their most dangerous excursion yet, into the dark places where risk runs high and blood runs cold. Truely an exciting novel!
reviewed Gone (Alex Delaware, Bk 20) on + 1568 more book reviews
I haven't read of Kelldrman's books before, but I'm going to find some other titles now. The man has a twisty-twisty mind! This Who-Dun-It kept me wondering 'til the very last chapter.

From back cover: No one conducts a more chilling, suspenseful, thoroughly engrossing tour through the winding corridors of criminal behavior and the secret chambers of psychopathology than Jonathan Kellerman, the bestselling "master of the psychological thriller" (People). Now the incomparable team of psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide cop Milo Sturgis embark on their most dangerous excursion yet, into the dark places where risk runs high and blood runs cold.
It's a story tailor-made for the nightly news: Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibu -battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor.
The details of the nightmarish event are shocking and brutal: The couple was carjacked at gunpoint by a masked assailant and subjected to a horrific regimen of confinement, starvation and assault.
But before long, doubts arise about the couple's story, and as forensic details unfold, the abduction is exposed as a hoax. Charged as criminals themselves, the aspiring actors claim emotional problems, and the court orders psychological evaluation for both.
Michaela is examined by Alex Delaware, who finds that her claims of depression and stress ring true enough. But they don't explain her lies, and Alex is certain that there are hidden layers in this sordid psychodrama that even he hasn't been able to penetrate.
Nevertheless, the case is closed - only to be violently reopened when Michaela is savagely murdered. When the police look for Dylan, they find that he's gone. Is he the killer or a victim himself? Casting their dragnet into the murkiest corners of L.A., Delaware and Sturgis unearth more questions than answers - including a host of eerily identical killings. What really happened to the couple who cried wolf? And what bizarre and brutal epidemic is infecting the city with terror, madness, and sudden, twisted death?
avidreeder avatar reviewed Gone (Alex Delaware, Bk 20) on + 6 more book reviews
Great series. Little slow. Picked up and got interesting near end.
booklit avatar reviewed Gone (Alex Delaware, Bk 20) on + 473 more book reviews
A psychological thriller. An exciting read
Hellraiser avatar reviewed Gone (Alex Delaware, Bk 20) on + 110 more book reviews
I don't think Kellerman is even trying to put out good stories anymore. This was a rehash of everything else he's written, but a bad rehash at that. It wasn't exciting or suspensful in the least.
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I loved it -


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