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5.0 out of 5 stars
KELLERMAN AT HIS FINEST - YOU WON'T FORGET THIS ONE!, November 20, 2001
Alex Delaware chalked up his attempt at helping a young, defiant, angry teenager by the name of Lauren Teague, as a failure when she walked out of his office and out of his professional life. Years later, Teague and Delaware meet at a stag party where Teague appears as the night's entertainment. However, the reunion is brief and short lived when her body turns up in a dumpster. Delaware, the avenging angel in pusuit of justice, is determined to find the person who committed the crime. He becomes so intensely involved in his mission that he risks losing Robin, the love of his life, and Miles, his best friend and co-worker. Kellerman takes a walk through the wild, seedy side of life where pornography is king and call-girls are nothing more than a replaceable commodity. Kellerman's latest book is jam-packed with suspense from cover to cover. While his previous novel "Dr. Death" may be seen as somewhat of a disappointment to many readers, Kellerman redeems himself in this one. This is, without question, the Kellerman readers have come to know and admire; here we have Kellerman at his finest.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
His Best Since "Self-Defense"...., January 12, 2002
The Alex Delaware of old is back in Kellerman's new novel. The last four in the series have been very disappointing to many of his long time fans, and Kellerman goes back to basics with this tale of a disappearance/murder that personally affects the good doc, since it happened to a former patient that he was never able to reach. In the novel, the old obsessive compulsive Alex Delaware surfaces again. He takes the crime personally, and continues to follow up some blind alleys, driving both Milo and Robin crazy with his inability to let it go. His instincts are basically good, however, and you second guess the multitude of possible outcomes all the way through the book's end. It feels as though Kellerman has decided to ground the doctor in the type of cases and well-intentioned investigations he crafted for Delaware in the early books of the series. It is good to have the real Alex back, and to have Kellerman fully flesh out a story, unlike the botched and tedious plots of "Monster" and "The Web". With this book, Kellerman wins back a fan!
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
California Blue, January 24, 2002
Lauren Teague, former delinquent, ex-patient of Alex Delaware is found dead in the bottom of a dumpster. There is no shortage of suspects or motives for Lauren had led a complicated, secretive life. A party girl, straight A student, generous to children and friends down on their luck, exquisite personal taste coupled with ugly job skills; Lauren has had bad luck, and it is catching. The strongest area in the book is the incisive portraits of the secondary characters. The uneasy, almost saint-like Ben Dugger, the highly verbal, artistic gay roommate of Lauren's, the brutish, slovenly but shrewd Lyle Teague just sparkle on the page. The description of the fictional "Playboy Mansion" is a brilliant invention. Even protagonist Alex shows an obsessive/compulsive streak that sharpens up his sometimes-bland character. The book is well plotted, though the pace uneven. So what was wrong? First and foremost, I found Lauren unbelievable. She came across as a set of contradictory traits that never added up to a total person. As she was the crux of the novel, it was a fatal flaw. Far too much time was devoted to the wavelets in Alex and Robin's insipid relationship. A secondary plot was superfluous, distracting from the main story and contributed nothing except a few characters that were not even remotely involved with the main plot. "Flesh and Blood" definitely has its moments, just not enough of them.
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