City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library

Serpentine, Jonathan Kellerman

eng

no index present

fiction

Serpentine

Jonathan Kellerman

Alex Delaware novels, 36

Ellie Barker is a self-made millionaire by the age of forty, and is obsessed with reopening the coldest of cases- the decades-old death of the mother she never knew. She hires LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis to help. Twenty-five years ago Ellie's mother was found with a bullet in her head in a torched Cadillac that has overturned on infamously treacherous Mulholland Drive. No physical evidence, no witnesses, no apparent motive. And a slew of detectives have already worked the job and failed. This is a case that calls for the insight of brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. And as he and Sturgis begin digging, the mist begins to lift. There are too many coincidences. Facts turn out to be anything but. And as they soon discover, very real threats are lurking in the present..

adult