Review: Serpentine

Serpentine by Jonathan Kellerman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars



Although this is book 36# in this series, and I had never read even one of the other books, I had no problems reading this book and understanding what was going on.

This is not to say that I didn't have issues, but they weren't serious issues. For one, there were just too many descriptions-what they were eating, drinking, wearing, how much food was being consumed, and when. It finally just got on my nerves. I've seen female authors do this time and again, but this is the first time I've seen a male author do this.

Secondly, I couldn't keep track of all of the characters. I had to look back in the book to refresh my memory constantly. (thank goodness for my Kindle)

There were many red-herrings and a whole lot of re-hashing. Too much was redundant.

I'm not saying this was a horrible book - not at all; it just wasn't my thing., and I love hard-boiled murder mysteries. Even though this was about a murder with a cop and a psychologist, it just seemed to me to be wishy-washy.

*ARC supplied by the publisher, author, and NetGalley.

SYNOPSIS: "Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis search for answers to a brutal, decades-old crime in this electrifying psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.

LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a master detective. He has a near-perfect solve rate and he's written his own rulebook. Some of those successes--the toughest ones--have involved his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But Milo doesn't call Alex in unless cases are "different."

This murder warrants an immediate call: Milo's independence has been compromised as never before, as the department pressures him to cater to the demands of a mogul. A hard-to-fathom, mega-rich young woman obsessed with reopening the coldest of cases: the decades-old death of the mother she never knew.

The facts describe a likely loser case: a mysterious woman 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. But as Delaware and Sturgis begin digging, the mist begins to lift. Too many coincidences. Facts turn out to be anything but. And as they soon discover, very real threats are lurking in the present.

This is Delaware and Sturgis at their best: traversing the beautiful but forbidding place known as Los Angeles and exhuming the past in order to bring a vicious killer to justice."