Victims: An Alex Delaware Novel

A Delightful Surprise

We got to "Victims" out of desperation. We'd run out of stuff to read except for the new Deborah Crombie we were holding in reserve. Finally we said "Why don't we take a look at the new Kellerman?" We had avoided buying his work for a long time as his books had become tedious and intellectually boring. Anyway, we bought his newest work "Guilt" and really enjoyed it. The writing was alive, crisp and elegant and the story compelling. After finishing it, I immediately started nosing around to find another Kellerman we might like and found Aaron Brown's 5 star review of "Victims." We discovered that Mr. Brown had also followed Kellerman's work from its inception; had observed a decline in its quality and was apparently as relieved and delighted as we that Kellerman's writing was no longer a turn off. (He puzzled briefly as to "Why" this was the case but offered no answers.) He encouraged readers to buy "Victims" so we did. I wanted to title my own review of "Victims" "A Magnum Opus" because that's how it felt. "Victims" was a great achievement and the author had pulled out all the stops to make it so. Kellerman's intricate and logically constructed plot had obviously devolved from the important milestones of his own personal professional career from his early student days to his final roles as a psychological consultant to law enforcement, the juvenile justice system and pediatric medicine. I had the sense that he wanted to leave nothing out and that these memories were still fresh and important enough to ensure that using them as plot devices in the story would make them interesting to the reader. (Other reviewers will tell you more about the story itself.) Overall, this is a good, compelling, police procedural written by an expert in the field. I encourage you to buy it. As Aaron Brown says in his Amazon Review, "Welcome back Alex Delaware." Read more