MONSTER（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk. Then a
psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is
murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent
ramblings of an inmate at the presumably secure institution begin
to make chilling sense–they are, in fact, horrifying predictions.
Yet how can a barely functional psychotic locked behind asylum
walls possibly know such vivid details of crimes committed in the
outside world? Drawn into a labyrinth of secrets, revenge, sex, and
manipulation, Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis set out
to unlock this enigma and put an end to the brutal killings–before
the madman predicts their own demise. . . .

　　Alex Delaware is back And in Jonathan Kellerman’s riveting and
ingenious new novel, Monster, he faces one of the most grisly and
baffling mysteries of his career: How can a nonfunctional psychotic
locked up in a supposedly secure institution for homicidal madmen
predict brutal murders in the outside world? Delaware and his
friend and partner Detective Milo Sturgis must penetrate this
enigma in order to stop the horrific killings. A marginal actor is
found dead in a car trunk, sawn in half. Months later, a
psychologist at a hospital for the criminally insane is discovered
murdered and mutilated in a tantalizingly similar way. When reports
of an inmate’s incoherent ramblings begin to make frightening sense
as predictions of yet more slayings, Delaware and Sturgis are drawn
into a web of family secrets, vengeance, and manipulation–both
inside the asylum and on the streets of L.A., where death, drugs,
and sex are marketed as commodities. The climactic discovery they
make as they race to prevent more killings gives fresh and
terrifying meaning to the concept of monstrosity. With Monster’s
incomparably deft characterizations and dazzlingly dark plot
twists, Jonathan Kellerman further enhances his literary position
as master of the psychological thriller. “From the Hardcover
edition.”