Alex Delaware · Book 2

Blood Test

Published
1 January 1986
Pages
320
ISBN-13
9780708830321
Type
novel
Cover of Blood Test

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.

Key facts about Blood Test

Blood Test is a novel by Jonathan Kellerman. Readers have had it since 1986. It runs to 320 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of Blood Test. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780708830321 to find the main one.

Blood Test is book 2 of 41 in the Alex Delaware series. The series has 40 published books. However, the series starts with When the Bough Breaks (1985).

Additionally, Jonathan Kellerman writes Clay Edison as a separate series. Those series sit on our mystery shelf.

About Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Kellerman is an American author and clinical psychologist whose Alex Delaware series -- begun with When the Bough Breaks in 1985 -- helped popularize the psychologist-detective as a crime-fiction archetype. See every Jonathan Kellerman book in order.

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…

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