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Collection: Adult Mystery
Call Number: M
Author: Kellerman, Jonathan
Title: Breakdown
Remainder of title: an Alex Delaware novel
Summary, etc. note: "Bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman has been universally hailed as the master of psychological suspense, and the blockbuster new thriller featuring Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis confirms his status as today's preeminent practitioner of saber-sharp storytelling. Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware meets beautiful and emotionally fragile TV actress Zelda Chase when called upon to evaluate her five-year-old son, Ovid. Years later, Alex is unexpectedly reunited with Zelda when she is involuntarily committed after a bizarre psychotic episode. Shortly after Zelda's release, an already sad situation turns tragic when she is discovered dead on the grounds of a palatial Bel Air estate. Having experienced more than enough of L.A.'s dark side to recognize the scent of evil, Alex turns to his friend LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis for help in finding out who ended Zelda's broken life. At the same time, Alex is caught up in another quest: the search for Zelda's missing son. And when other victims vanish from the same upscale neighborhood, worry turns to terror. As Alex struggles to piece together the brief rise and steep fall of a gorgeous, talented actress, he and Milo unveil shattered dreams, the corruption of a family, and a grotesque betrayal of innocence. With each devastating revelation and damning clue, Alex's brilliant mind is challenged as never before--and his determination grows to see a killer caged and the truth set free. Praise for Jonathan Kellerman "Jonathan Kellerman's psychology skills and dark imagination are a potent literary mix."--Los Angeles Times "Kellerman doesn't just write psychological thrillers--he owns the genre."--Detroit Free Press"--

International Standard Book Number: 9780345541406 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9780345541413 (ebook)
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: n-us-ca
Classification number: PS3561.E3865
Item number: B74 2016
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 813/.54
Source of number: bisacsh
Classification number: FIC031000
Classification number: FIC022000
Classification number: FIC030000
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Jonathan Kellerman.
Edition statement: First edition.
Place of publication: New York , NY
Name of publisher: Random House LLC
Date of publication: 2016
: New York :
: Ballantine Books,
: [2016]
Extent: 350 pages
Dimensions: 25 cm.
: rdacontent
: text
: rdamedia
: unmediated
: rdacarrier
: volume
Series statement: Alex Delaware ;
Volume number/sequential designation: 31
Summary, etc. note: "Psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware is surprised to get the call when well-known TV actress Zelda Chase turns up half-naked, half-mad in the LA's rural Westside. He has little connection to the starlet, save a psychiatric evaluation he performed on her adopted daughter several years ago, a child who has since vanished without a trace and whom Zelda refuses to talk about. When the actress turns up dead a few weeks later without a scratch on her, Delaware calls in police lieutenant Milo Sturgis to help him crack the case--or at least the wall of silence surrounding it. When the body of a second actress turns up with the same mysterious cause of death, Delaware and Sturgis start to wonder--is this a copycat case or a coincidence? When they uncover the death of another actress, a star from another era who vanished decades ago, never to be found, they realize they're facing one of the their most baffling, mind-bending cases yet"--
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: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: B & T
Purchase price: 28.95
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Source of heading or term: bisacsh
Subject: Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character)
Subject: Sturgis, Milo (Fictitious character)
Subject: Psychologists
Subject: Police
Subject: Thrillers
Subject: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General.
Subject: FICTION / Suspense.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Form subdivision: Fiction.
Geographic subdivision: California
Geographic subdivision: Los Angeles
Source of term: gsafd
Genre/form data or focus term: Psychological fiction.
Genre/form data or focus term: Mystery fiction.
Main entry heading: Kellerman, Jonathan, author.
Edition: First edition.
Place, publisher, and date of publication: New York : Ballantine Books, [2016]
Display text: Online version:
Title: Breakdown
Record control number: (DLC) 2015047507
International Standard Book Number: 9780345541413
Materials specified: Cover image
Uniform Resource Identifier: 9780345541406.jpg
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: 1 shelf copy
: policy default
: xk15 2015-12-02 (rev.) to CIP
: xk18 2015-11-20
: xk02 2016-02-02, c. 1 to CALM
: xk18 2015-11-20 ONIX

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