Alex Delaware · Book 37

City of the Dead

Published
1 January 2022
Pages
336
ISBN-13
9781529158052
Type
novel
Cover of City of the Dead

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.

Key facts about City of the Dead

City of the Dead is a novel by Jonathan Kellerman. Readers have had it since 2022. It runs to 336 pages.

Our list holds 3 editions of City of the Dead. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781529158052 to find the main one.

City of the Dead is book 37 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

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…

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