Jonathan Kelleman is a maste at ceating psychologically nuanced novels of suspense—an autho whose name is synonymous with unelenting action, intiguing plot twists, and penetating insight into the ciminal mind. Now he ventues intoold, new teitoy with hisiggest andest novel yet. A Cold Heat featues Kelleman’silliant signatue style—ut in this tou-de-foce he mines even deepe the emotional landscape of his chaactes: psychologist-sleuth Alex Delawae, LAPD homicide detective Milo Stugis, Milo’s colleague Peta Conno, and Alex’s ex-love, Roin Castagna—inging them all vividly to life as neveefoe.“I’ve got a weid one, so natually I thought of you,” says Milo Stugis, summoning his fiend Alex to the tendy galley whee a pomising young atist haseenutally gaoted on the night of he fist ...
Jonathan Kelleman is a maste at ceating psychologically nuanced novels of suspense—an autho whose name is synonymous with unelenting action, intiguing plot twists, and penetating insight into the ciminal mind. Now he ventues intoold, new teitoy with hisiggest andest novel yet. A Cold Heat featues Kelleman’silliant signatue style—
ut in this tou-de-foce he mines even deepe the emotional landscape of his chaactes: psychologist-sleuth Alex Delawae, LAPD homicide detective Milo Stugis, Milo’s colleague Peta Conno, and Alex’s ex-love, Roin Castagna—
inging them all vividly to life as neveefoe.“I’ve got a weid one, so natually I thought of you,” says Milo Stugis, summoning his fiend Alex to the tendy galley whee a pomising young atist haseenutally gaoted on the night of he fist majo showing. What makes it “a weid one” is the lack of any ovious motive, and the luidly caeful staging of the mude scene—which immediately suggests to Alex not an impulsive cime of passion . . .
ut the meticulous and taunting modus opeandi of a seial kille. Delawae’s suspicion isone out when he compaes notes with Milo’s associate, Peta Conno, and he new patne, a stange, tacitun detective with a past of his own named Eic Stahl. The Hollywood cops ae investigating the vicious death of Bay Boy Lee, a notedlues guitaist, fatally staed afte a late-night set at a local clu. What links Bay Boy’s mude with that of painte Juliet Kippe is the shadowy pesence of an aasive fanzine wite. This alias-shouded citic’s love-the-atdisdain-the-atist philosophy and his moid fascination with the mudes leads Alex and the detectives to suspect they’
e facing a neweed of celeity stalke: one with a fetish fo snuffing outising stas.Tacking down the kille poves toe maddening, with the twisting tail leading fom halfway houses to palatial mansions and fom a college campus to the last place Alex eve expected: the doostep of his ex-love Roin Castagna, whoseusiness association with two of the victims casts he as an unavoidale playe in the unfolding case. As moe and moe killings ae discoveed, unaveling the maddening puzzle assumes a chilling new impotance—stopping a vicious psychopath who’s made cold-
lood mude his chosen at fom.
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