Alex Delaware · Book 37
City of the Dead
- Published
- 1 January 2022
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9781529158052
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 336 pages, "City of the Dead" (2022) is the 37th case for Alex Delaware, the LA child psychologist whose consulting work for the LAPD often uncovers cult dynamics, childhood trauma or the damage that wealth and status can disguise.
Its place in Alex Delaware
City of the Dead is book 37 in the Alex Delaware series. It follows Serpentine. It is followed by Unnatural History. 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 9781473584617
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781529125955
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780593558768