FLESH AND BLOOD（ISBN=） 英文原版

“RAZOR-SHARP . . . A SKILLFUL PIECE OF WORK.”-“The Washington
Post Book World Lauren Teague is a beautiful, defiant, borderline
delinquent teenager when her parents bring her to Dr. Alex
Delaware’s office. Lauren angrily resists Alex’s help-and the
psychologist is forced to chalk Lauren up as one of the inevitable
failures of his profession. Years later, when Alex and Lauren come
face-to-face in a shocking encounter, both doctor and patient are
stricken with shame. But the ultimate horror takes place when, soon
after, Lauren’s brutalized corpse is found dumped in an alley. Alex
disregards the advice of his trusted friend, LAPD detective Milo
Sturgis, and jeopardizes his relationship with longtime lover,
Robin Castagna, in order to pursue Lauren’s killer. As he
investigates his young patient’s troubled past, Alex enters the
shadowy worlds of fringe psychological experimentation and the sex
industry-and then into mortal danger, when lust and big money
collide in an unforgiving Los Angeles.

Perennial bestseller and acknowledged master of the
psychological thriller, Jonathan Kellerman has created his most
riveting and memorable work to date in the Alex Delaware novel
about a troubled and elusive young woman whose brutal murder forces
the brilliant psychologist-detective to confront his own
fallibility. Lauren Teague is a beautiful, defiant,
borderline-delinquent teenager when her parents bring her to Alex
Delaware’s office. But for all Alex’s skill and effort, Lauren
resists–angrily, provocatively. Reluctantly, the psychologist
chalks Lauren up as one of the inevitable failures of a challenging
profession. But years later, when Alex encounters Lauren as a stag
party’s featured entertainment, both doctor and patient are sticken
with shame. And the ultimate horror takes place when, soon after,
Lauren’s brutalized corpse is found dumped in an alley. Alex
disregards the advice of his trusted friend, LAPD detective Milo
Sturgis, and jeopardizes his relationship with longtime lover,
Robin Castagna, in order to pursue Lauren’s murderer. As he
investigates his young patient’s troubled past, Alex enters the
shadowy worlds of fringe psychological experimentation and the sex
industry, and then into mortal danger when lust and big money
collide in Southern California. Jonathan Kellerman’s L.A. is evil,
seductive, erotic, and unforgiving, and “Flesh and Blood” is
mind-opening in its drama of a driven man’s personal quest,
breathtaking in its ingenious plot, filled with unforgettable
characters, and topped off by a terrifying climax. This is suspense
fiction at its finest. “From the Hardcover edition.”