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by Jonathan Kellerman (Author)
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Praise for Jonathan Kellerman

Compulsion

“Fresh, fascinating and compulsively readable.”—Boston Herald

Obsession

“Jonathan Kellerman’s novels are an obsession; once started it is hard to quit.” —Orlando Sentinel

Gone

“Sharply written and well-paced.”—Entertainment Weekly

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“[An] adrenaline-fueled read.”—People


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In Jonathan Kellerman’s gripping novels, the city of Los Angeles is as much a living, breathing character as the heroes and villains who roam its labyrinthine streets. Sunny on the surface but shadowy beneath, this world of privilege and pleasure has a dark core and a dangerous edge. In True Detectives, Kellerman skillfully brings his renowned gifts for breathless suspense and sharp psychological insight to a tale that resonates on every level and satisfies at every turn.

Bound by blood but divided by troubles as old as Cain and Abel, Moses Reed and Aaron Fox were first introduced in Kellerman’s bestselling Bones. They are sons of the same strong-willed mother, and their respective fathers were cops, partners, and friends. Their turbulent family history has set them at odds, despite their shared calling. Moses—part Boy Scout, part bulldog, man of few words—is a no-frills LAPD detective. Aaron, sharp dresser and smooth operator, is an ex-cop turned high-end private eye. Usually they go their separate ways. But the disappearance of Caitlin Frostig isn’t usual. For Moses, it’s an ice-cold mystery he just can’t outrun, even with the help of psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis. For Aaron, it’s a billable-hours bonanza from his most lucrative client. Like it or not, Moses and Aaron are in this one together–and the rivalry that rules them won’t let either man quit till the case is cracked.

A straight-arrow, straight-A student from Malibu, Caitlin has only two men in her life: her sullen single father and her wholesome college sweetheart, who even the battling brothers agree seems too downright upright to be true. Reluctantly tag-teaming in a desperate search for fresh leads, Moses and Aaron zero in on Caitlin’s white knight as their primary “person of interest,” hoping that, like most people in L.A., he has a secret side.

But they uncover more than just a secret as they descend into the sinister, seamy side of the City of Angels after dark, populated by a Hollywood Babylon cast of the glamorous and the damned: a millionaire movie director turned hatemongering eccentric; a desperate Beverly Hills housewife looking for an exit from the fast lane; a heartthrob actor being eaten alive by personal demons; a hooker who’s probably seen it all . . . and might just know too much. And at the center, a dead young woman whose downward spiral and brutal end loom over Moses and Aaron like an omen of what may come to be if the dark end of the street claims another lost soul.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Half Brothers, a Homicide Detective and a PI, Compete to Find a Missing Woman, May 23 2009

"Two nations are in your womb,
Two peoples shall separated from your body;
One people shall be stronger than the other,
And the older shall serve the younger."

Genesis 25:23

Before getting into this book, let me make it clear that Alex Delaware barely appears in it, and Milo Sturgis has an even smaller role (if that were possible). If you want lots of those characters, give this book a miss.

The detection part of True Detectives is built around two dualities:

1. Two half brothers (same mother, different patrolmen fathers who were partners) compete to solve the same mystery. The two will remind you of Esau and Jacob more than Cain and Abel.

2. One half brother, Aaron Fox, is a slick private detective with a generous client. The other half brother, Moses Reed, is a homicide detective for LAPD. They each work the problem differently. Together, they can be unbeatable . . . but can they cooperate long enough to succeed?

The mystery begins with an unhappy accountant whose daughter, Caitlin Frostig, has been missing for sometime. Aaron Fox is hired by the accountant's employer to find her. Aaron soon finds that Caitlin's boyfriend, Rory Stoltz, is traveling in some pretty fast Hollywood company. Those connections, in turn, reveal a likely relationship to an unsolved murder. Aaron has no choice but to check in with his half brother. The two seem to enjoy trying to one-up each other more than they enjoy finding out what's going on.

One thing leads to another, and it's clear that there are some pretty heavy evil-doers involved. But who did what to whom? From there, it's an interesting combination of police procedural within the law/private detection outside the limits of the law that provides faster moving action than most police procedurals can provide.

I didn't find the characters to be very arresting or interesting. The competition between the two was almost a distraction in what is a pretty complicated mystery. With Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis in the middle of this mystery, this would have probably been a four-star or five-star product.

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