Self-Defense (60 page)

“[A] knockout of an entertainment.”

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New York Newsday

BLOOD TEST

A dangerously ill five-year-old boy is
missing—kidnapped by his own parents. Alex and his friend LAPD detective Milo
Sturgis have no choice but to follow them into the L.A. underworld where
fantasies are fulfilled at any price—even at the cost of a young boy’s life.

“Truly chilling.”

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Chicago Tribune

“A suspenseful thriller whose solution
lies in the darker recesses of the human soul.”

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The Wall Street Journal

SILENT PARTNER

The apparent suicide of a former lover
leaves Alex determined to find out what went wrong for this brilliant and
privileged woman. The answer will lie in childhood terrors of the past—and
secrets that still hold the power to destroy.

“Complex and haunting... hits the reader
right between the eyes.”

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Los Angeles Times Book Review

“The first page is a shocker, and the pace
never falters.... A terrific read.”

—
The Plain Dealer,
Cleveland

TIME BOMB

By the time Alex Delaware reached the
school, the sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down
before any children were hurt. Then the sniper’s identity is revealed, and Alex
wonders: a would-be killer, or a victim in a deadly plot?

“Though a time bomb is ticking away at the
heart of this novel, readers will forget to watch the clock once they begin
it.”

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Chicago Sun-Times

“Virtually impossible to put aside until
the final horrifying showdown.”

—
People

PRIVATE EYES

Eleven years ago a seven-year-old child
dialed a hospital help line for comfort—and found it in therapy with Alex
Delaware. Now the young heiress is calling for Alex’s help again, because her
mother, a recluse for 20 years, has disappeared—presumed dead.

“A gut-wrenching scenario.”

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Booklist

“A page-turner from beginning to end.”

—
Los Angeles Times

DEVIL’S WALTZ

The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy,
the terrifying disorder that causes parents to induce illness in their own
children. Now Alex Delaware may have to prove a child’s own mother or father is
making her sick.

“Reads like wildfire... harrowing
suspense.”

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The New York Times Book Review

“The great strengths of this novel stem
from Kellerman’s use of his own professional background in child psychology.”

—
Cosmopolitan

BAD LOVE

It comes in a plain brown wrapper—an audiocassette
recording of a soul-lacerating scream, followed by a childlike chanting: “Bad
love, bad love. Don’t give me the bad love....” And for Alex it is the first
intimation that he is the target of a carefully orchestrated campaign of terror
by a stalker who won’t be satisfied until he is dead.

“Will have you looking over your shoulder
before you turn out the lights.”

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Detroit Free Press

“By the end I was fairly racing through
the pages.”

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Los Angeles Times

THE BUTCHER’S THEATER

Jerusalem has fallen prey to a serial
killer. His violent specialty: the ritual murder of young Arab women. Now
veteran police inspector Daniel Sharavi and his crack team must scour a city
simmering with religious and political passions to find a killer whose
insatiable tastes could destroy the delicate balance on which Jerusalem’s very
survival depends.

“Spellbinding... a vivid, fascinating
tale.”

—
Time

“Hair-raising.”

—
Chicago Tribune