Alex Delaware · Book 30
Motive
- Published
- 1 January 2015
- Pages
- 173
- ISBN-13
- 9780345541376
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Motive" is Jonathan Kellerman's 30th Alex Delaware novel, published 2015 at 173 pages -- part of a series built on dense, dialogue-driven plotting and a strong sense of Los Angeles geography and class stratification.
Its place in Alex Delaware
Motive is book 30 in the Alex Delaware series. It follows Killer. It is followed by Breakdown. 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 9780345541376