{"id":330,"date":"2011-04-17T16:35:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T23:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2011-04-17T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T23:35:04","slug":"kellerman-on-his-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Kellerman on his game"},"content":{"rendered":"

What has Bob Moyer been reading lately? It’s a mystery.<\/p>\n

By Robert Moyer<\/p>\n

MYSTERY. An Alex Delaware Novel. By Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine Books. 320 pages. $28.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mystery<\/em> would seem a presumptuous title for a genre all about them.\u00a0The\u00a0Mystery here, however, is merely the moniker of an older-than-she-looks bimbo trolling the Internet for an older-than-the-hills sugar daddy.<\/p>\n

Mystery becomes a mystery herself when she turns up dead.\u00a0 When L.A.P.D. Lt. Milo Sturgis shows his series partner, psychologist Alex Delaware, a picture of her faceless corpse, the good doctor recognizes her from the night before.\u00a0 Her B-movie starlet quality had caught his attention in the landmark Hollywood bar where he and his girl friend went for a drink.\u00a0 The venerable investigators head off to find out who she was, who was the sinister guy outside the bar, and who killed her.<\/p>\n

And the fun begins.\u00a0 After 36 Delaware novels, Jonathan Kellerman has developed a formula that his followers inevitably find enjoyable even if the crime doesn\u2019t always come up to snuff.\u00a0 In this latest adventure, he hits all the marks competently.<\/p>\n

The two banter their way into the investigation, bandying clues and concepts back and forth.\u00a0 Milo eats too much and gets food on his tie, and they take a few turns around Hollywood in Delaware\u2019s vintage Cadillac.\u00a0 After a while, they take intuitive leaps into tangled conclusions that don\u2019t pan out.\u00a0 They always have an abundance of suspects, and this book\u2019s group, straight out of central casting for a B-movie, has a Hollywood noir <\/em>quality: the sugar daddy\u2019s septuagenarian widow, an ex-starlet handy with a six-gun; his two swinging sons with a shared love-nest; and his two sour daughters-in-law.<\/p>\n

The clever conclusion, which Kellerman conceals well here, keeps this latest in the series above average.\u00a0 The best of Dr. Delaware\u2019s adventures also feature a subplot that puts him into contact with a child; Delaware\u2019s counsel to his young client in this case adds a poignant dimension to the narrative.\u00a0Counseling is what Delaware does; this book is what Kellerman does.\u00a0 They both do their jobs well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What has Bob Moyer been reading lately? It’s a mystery. By Robert Moyer MYSTERY. An Alex Delaware Novel. By Jonathan Kellerman. Ballantine Books. 320 pages. $28. Mystery would seem a presumptuous title for a genre all about them.\u00a0The\u00a0Mystery here, however, is merely the moniker of an older-than-she-looks bimbo trolling the Internet for an older-than-the-hills sugar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[70,69,27],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysteries","tag-alex-delaware","tag-jonathan-kellerman","tag-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}