I have been a fan of Jonathan Kellerman for many years. Alex, Milo, and Robin are like family. When a copy of Serpentine became available on Net Galley, I jumped at the chance to read his latest novel—no disappointment here.
BLURB:
LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a master detective. He has a near-perfect solve rate and he’s written his own rule book. Some of those successes—the toughest ones—have involved his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But Milo doesn’t call Alex in unless cases are “different.” This murder warrants an immediate call. Milo’s independence has been compromised as never before, as the department pressures him to cater to the demands of a mogul: a hard-to-fathom, megarich young woman who is obsessed with reopening the coldest of cases—the decades-old death of the mother she never knew.
The facts describe a likely loser: a mysterious woman found with a bullet in her head in a torched Cadillac that has overturned on infamously treacherous Mulholland Drive. No physical evidence, no witnesses, no apparent motive. And a slew of detectives have already worked the case and failed. But as Delaware and Sturgis begin digging, the mist begins to lift. Too many coincidences. Facts turn out to be anything but. And as they soon discover, very real threats lurking in the present.
This is Delaware/Sturgis at their best: traversing the beautiful but forbidding place known as Los Angeles and exhuming the past in order to bring a vicious killer to justice.
My Review:
Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is assigned a cold case, making him third in a string of detectives who have worked the murder without success. Milo enlists his friend, psychologist Alex Delaware, to help him sort through the past and answer, whodunit? It doesn’t take long for the investigation to make someone nervous. A photograph and a serpentine necklace lead Sturgis and Delaware through hoops as they search for the truth. This story is full of familiar Milo and Alex charm, plus some crazy characters that misdirected this reader and kept me guessing. Kellerman does it again—a great read in a great series. Five Thumbs UP
I obtained this book through Net Galley and left an honest review.
Meet Jonathan Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than three dozen bestselling crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The Butcher’s Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, True Detectives, and The Murderer’s Daughter.
