Victims: An Alex Delaware Novel

Good book although at times the narrative seems to go into more detail than necessary -- kind of a system to increase the page count. This book is a bit more gory tan previous Kellerman Delaware/Sturgis books.

Milo and Alex seek to find a disturbed person who was victomized as a youth in an asylum for mentally impaired people. Grant Huggler and Harrie pick and mutilate multiple victoms until they are at last captured. Somewhat lengthy, but true Kellerman!

The effort to find a killer who disembowels his victims travels a bizarre, difficult to imagine route. It is very difficult to wade through all of the verbiage, turns and road blocks enroute to whatever solution the author has. I'm actually on my second attempt to read through to the conclusion. At this point I've simply lost interest. In the interim, I've read at least two other new fictional who dunnit novels.
Herman Zieger

Another great book. Felt too much negativity to having thyroid removed. As a cancer survivor, along with two others in my family, it's no big deal. Medications same as other medical problems need to be monitored. The winter coat seemed a little overboard. Action keeps you reading without a dull chapter. Hope to see the "Doc" remarry with Sturgis as his best man. This novel keeps you reading to see where the monster will reappear. Will there be another book about the "lost" victims? Good ending.

Kellerman continues to write well and to come up with imaginative ways to showcase his hero, Alex Delaware. Kellerman's protagonist, his plot and his settings are all believable. Best of his all is his dialogue which seems to be natural and therefore adds to the suspension of disbelief.

This book was a very interesting book. To find out that the victim was killed in such a bad way. The killer took his time cleaning up the scene and enjoy in the work that he had done. The victim was disliked by so many people the police had many suspects. Which made it hard to tell lies from the truth. In the end they caught the killer and put the person behind bars.

This book is more centered on Delaware and his process. I personally enjoy that. The crimes are insane and the ending ties in to the story. I wouldn't call it deep in character exploration and we know fairly early what is going on. But I was still into it until the end.

Average effort...too much emphasis on conversation between Alex and Milo. Disappointed that the character of Alex appears to have been given a secondary role to that of Milo. Plot ok. Not Kellerman's greatest novel!

Somehow it takes forever for the story to pick up speed and I nearly gave up twice. There is a lengthy and unflattering description of Sturgis in the beginnis which I found totally uncalled for and unrealistic; given the hostility he faces almost daily at work, he could not get away with looking like a bum. Delaware is forever reminiscing and misses some obvious clues. About half way through the book the old magic is suddenly back and the story jells at last, and we follow the tale to it surprising finish. Hopefully the next book will be better.

I know that police work is plodding, but books about it are not supposed to be. I have read all of the Alex Delaware books, but this may be the last. The one before this was not much better, but this one is dull, dull, dull. The characters, most of whom are police officers we have met before, are flat and uninteresting. The plot consists almost entirely of these officers talking among themselves. SPOILER ALERT Worst of all, we never get to know the victims or the murderous villains. By the end of the book (which is just as dull as the rest), we are just told no one knows why the killers became such brutal serial killers. Really? Then what is the point of writing a book speculating endlessly about their background & motives? And I do mean speculating. The ending was so, well, not really an ending, leaving me wondering why I bothered reading this book. It's clear to me that the Alex Delaware series has run its course. Kellerman is generally a good, entertaining writer. It's time for him to find something worthy of his talents.

I know that police work is plodding, but books about it are not supposed to be. I have read all of the Alex Delaware books, but this may be the last. The one before this was not much better, but this one is dull, dull, dull. The characters, most of whom are police officers we have met before, are flat and uninteresting. The plot consists almost entirely of these officers talking among themselves. SPOILER ALERT Worst of all, we never get to know the victims or the murderous villains. By the end of the book (which is just as dull as the rest), we are just told no one knows why the killers became such brutal serial killers. Really? Then what is the point of writing a book speculating endlessly about their background & motives? And I do mean speculating. The ending was so, well, not really an ending, leaving me wondering why I bothered reading this book. It's clear to me that the Alex Delaware series has run its course. Kellerman is generally a good, entertaining writer. It's time for him to find something worthy of his talents.