Alex Delaware · Book 2
Blood Test
- Published
- 1 January 1986
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780708830321
- Type
- novel
About this book
Published in 1986 at 320 pages, "Blood Test" is the second Alex Delaware book -- like the rest of Kellerman's series, it pairs the psychologist's reading of victims and killers with Milo Sturgis's police-procedural legwork around Los Angeles.
Its place in Alex Delaware
Blood Test is book 2 in the Alex Delaware series. It follows When the Bough Breaks. It is followed by Over the Edge. See the full Alex Delaware reading order.
Alex Delaware is a child psychologist in Los Angeles, semi-retired from private practice by burnout and a healthy trust fund, who keeps getting pulled back into consulting on cases -- almost always at the request of his closest friend, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis. Jonathan Kellerman, himself a clinical psychologist before he became a novelist, builds each book around the psychology of victims, witnesses and killers as much as the crime itself: cult dynamics, childhood trauma, family pathology and the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780708830321
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553569636
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780451178022