Heartbreak Hotel: An Alex Delaware Novel

By Jonathan Kellerman

Book Overview

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Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis investigate the death of Alex's most mysterious patient to date in this sensational thriller from the master of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman.

At nearly one hundred years old, Thalia Mars is a far cry from the patients that child psychologist Alex Delaware normally treats. But the charming, witty woman convinces Alex to meet with her in a suite at the Aventura, a luxury hotel with a checkered history.

What Thalia wants from Alex are answers to unsettling questions--about guilt, patterns of criminal behavior, victim selection. When Alex asks the reason for her morbid fascination, Thalia promises to tell all during their next session. But when he shows up the following morning, he is met with silence: Thalia is dead in her room.

When questions arise about how Thalia perished, Alex and homicide detective Milo Sturgis must peel back the layers of a fascinating but elusive woman's life and embark on one of the most baffling investigations either of them has ever experienced. For Thalia Mars is a victim like no other, an enigma who harbored nearly a century of secrets and whose life and death draw those around her into a vortex of violence.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345541456
• ISBN13: 9780345541451
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

good read

Kellerman is a great writer. The Character Alex Delaware is a very interesting person. I have read a few in this series Very good, a little long but good

A spiral of a book

About 75 pages too long because he’s another author that continues to send the reader on unnecessary, often confusing wild goose chases. And why did he include a raunchy s e x scene that was not germane to the actual plot? Mystery fans aren’t really interested in that; at least I’m not.