Obsession
- Published
- 1 January 2007
- Pages
- 461
- ISBN-13
- 9780345452634
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 461 pages, "Obsession" (2007) is the 21st 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 Obsession
Obsession is a novel by Jonathan Kellerman. Readers have had it since 2007. It runs to 461 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Obsession. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780345452634 to find the main one.
Obsession is book 21 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
Obsession is book 21 in the Alex Delaware series. It follows Gone. It is followed by Compulsion. 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 9780739326688
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345500144
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780141906218