[Alex Delaware 13] • Dr La mort

A brutalized corpse discovered in a remote region of the Hollywood Hills

plunges psychologist-detective Alex Delaware into a landscape of rage and

madness as he struggles to solve this most baffling of homicides.

To some, Eldon Mate was evil personified. Others saw the former physician as a

saint. But one thing was clear: Dr. Death had snuffed out the lives of dozens

of human beings and now someone had turned _him_ into a victim. When Mate is

found mutilated in a rented van, harnessed to his own killing machine,

Delaware is asked to aid his old friend, homicide cop Milo Sturgis, in the

hunt for the death doctor's executioner. But Alex harbors secrets of his own

that threaten to derail the partners' friendship as well as the increasingly

complex investigation. With page-turning suspense and vivid portraits of

L.A.'s darkest side, perennial bestseller Jonathan Kellerman's latest tale of

psychopathology taken to the extreme delivers an unforgettable journey into

the most sinister corners of the human mind.