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One of Argent's patients at Starkweather is Ardis "Monster" Peake, imprisoned for the unbelievably brutal murders of his mother and the family she worked for, including a small child and a baby. There's at least one eerie similarity between the mutilation of their bodies and Argent's: in all the bodies, the eyes were taken or destroyed. But Peake, diagnosed as schizophrenic and psychotic, is a well-behaved vegetable due to a steady diet of Thorazine, and he hasn't left the hospital since his incarceration 15 years before. How is it, then, that Claire Argent's assistant, Heidi Ott, swears she heard Peake say, "Dr. A. Bad eyes in a box" soon after he hears only the bare fact of her death? And why does Alex find Peake so empathetic, in spite of his violent past and chillingly vacant mind? When other mutilated bodies turn up, Alex and Milo begin to suspect that the real monster is very much at large. Like Kellerman's 12 previous Alex Delaware mysteries, Monster builds to a big, teeth-clenching bang and ends with some very satisfying surprises. --Barrie Trinkle
--Detroit Free Press
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Book Description Condition: Bueno. Two murder victims have been discovered in the boots of their cars. The first was would-be actor, Richard Dada; the second Dr Claire Argent, a psychiatrist at a maximum security hospital. Milo Sturgis tends to think there will be plenty of suspects amongst her clientele, but as his friend Alex Delaware remarks, none of his patients ever killed anyone and as they investigate the backgrounds of both victims it appears that Milo needs to look elsewhere, because neither of them are who they made themselves out to be. As they slowly unravel the strands of their lies another, truly monstrous, character emerges: a man who gains his pleasure not from mere mutilattion and murder but from making his victims watch their own forthcoming death on film. And somehow he has control over some of the Claire Argent's patients, apparently securely behind bars. In one of the most complex plots he has yet devised, Jonathan Kellerman has created a devastating mystery thriller.EAN: 9780316853583 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Título: MonsterAutor: Kellerman, Dr Jonathan Editorial: Sphere. Seller Inventory # Happ-2023-04-18-f186c94f
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 410 pages. 394 pages ; 25 cm A corpse is found in a car trun k. The victim is a twenty-five-year-old would-be actor called Ric hard Dada. He has been swan in half. Eight months later, the body of Claire Argent, a psycologis at a hospital for the criminally insane, is discovere. She has been mutilated in the same, horrifi c way. Detective Milo Sturgis is put on the case and, when the in coherent ramblings of a patient locked up in a mental hospital fo r the criminally insane begin to make terrifying sense, he calls on psychologist Alex Delaware to help him delve into the muddy wa ters of insanity. -- back cover. Seller Inventory # 842a