Helpful Score: 5
I love the Alex Delaware novels and this one is no exception. I couldn't put it down, as I had to know who did it. I love the scenes in the asylum for the criminally insane. Pyschology in general fascinates me, so any book that has a good portion spent talking with the staff and inmates in an asylum will get me hooked.
Helpful Score: 2
I thought this was a great book. I really enjoyed reading it. If you like mysterys you'll like this one.
Helpful Score: 1
DR ALEX DELAWARE IS BACK!!!how can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up ina supposedly secure institution fior homiclial madmen predict bruital murders in the outside world??
a marginal actor is found dead in a car truck,sawn in half..Months later, a psychologist at a hospital for the criminallly insane is discovered murdered and mutilated in a tantalizingly similar way..when reports ofan inmate's incoherent.ramblings begin to make frighteningly sense as predictions of yet mmore slayings, delaware and Strugis are drawn into a web of family secrets, vengenance, and manipulation=both inside the asylum and on the streets of LS, where death, drugs and sex are marketed as commodeties... this book finally reveals how it is possible to get to the truth of the matter that has created this MONSTER
a marginal actor is found dead in a car truck,sawn in half..Months later, a psychologist at a hospital for the criminallly insane is discovered murdered and mutilated in a tantalizingly similar way..when reports ofan inmate's incoherent.ramblings begin to make frighteningly sense as predictions of yet mmore slayings, delaware and Strugis are drawn into a web of family secrets, vengenance, and manipulation=both inside the asylum and on the streets of LS, where death, drugs and sex are marketed as commodeties... this book finally reveals how it is possible to get to the truth of the matter that has created this MONSTER
Helpful Score: 1
This is a great detective story. People are being murdered in grisly fashion and it leads back to a gruesome murder from years past. I love this book because it is much gorier and twisted than the average detective thriller. I love Agatha Christie-type mysteries, but this is like a horror-mystery combo and it's excellently written. A great read!!!