Motive: An Alex Delaware Novel

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER * <b>Don't miss the excerpt of Jonathan Kellerman's <i>The Murderer's Daughter </i>in the back of the book!</b><br></b><br>Jonathan Kellerman writes razor-sharp novels that cut to the quick. Now comes <i>Motive,</i> which pits psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide cop Milo Sturgis against a vicious criminal mind - the kind only Kellerman can bring to chilling life.<br> <br> Even having hundreds of closed cases to his credit can't keep LAPD police lieutenant Milo Sturgis from agonizing over the crimes that don't get solved - and the victims who go without justice. Victims like Katherine Hennepin, a young woman strangled and stabbed in her home. A single suspect with a solid alibi leads to a dead end - one even Alex Delaware's expert insight can't explain. The only thing to do is move on to the next murder case - because there's always a next one.<br> <br> This time the victim is Ursula Corey: a successful, attractive divorcée who's been gunned down - not a robbery but an execution, a crime that smacks of simple, savage revenge. And along with that theoretical motive come two strong contenders for the role of perp: the dead woman's business partner/ex-husband and her divorce lawyer/secret lover. But just as Alex and Milo think they're zeroing in on the most likely suspect, a bizarre new clue stirs up eerie echoes of the unsolved Hennepin murder. And the discovery of yet another crime scene bearing the same taunting signature raises the specter of a serial killer on a mission, whose twisted method is exceeded only by his manipulative and cunning madness.<br><br><b>Praise for <i>Motive</i></b><br> <b><i> </i></b><br>&quot;Jonathan Kellerman has mastered the art of lean, evocative prose [in] a series that grows stronger with each volume.&quot;<b><i> - New York Journal of Books</i></b><br> <br> &quot;One of [Kellerman's] best works to date . . . <i>Motive</i> is wonderfully made, equally well-driven by plot and character, and shouldn't be missed.&quot;<b> - <i>Bookreporter</i></b><br> <br> &quot;[<i>Motive</i>] will even keep genre veterans guessing. . . . The twists are both shocking and logical, and the byplay between the leads entertaining.&quot;<b><i> - Publishers Weekly</i></b><br> <br> <b>Praise for Jonathan Kellerman</b><br> <b> </b><br> &quot;Jonathan Kellerman's psychology skills and dark imagination are a potent literary mix.&quot;<b><i> - Los Angeles Times</i></b><br> <i> </i><br> &quot;A master of the psychological thriller.&quot;<b><i> - People</i></b><br> <i> </i><br> &quot;The combination of Alex Delaware [and] Detective Milo Sturgis . . . makes for the most original whodunit duo since Watson and Holmes.&quot;<b><i> - Forbes</i></b>