monster
by Jonathan Kellerman
Taste attributes: thrillercrimemysterypsychologicalunsavouryheavyrealisticintricatelinearenclosedemotive & stirringsolving the riddle/not as it seemsrescue/escape/jeopardytroubled leads
Boxlist takeMorally murky and small-scale: an intricate thriller, heavy rather than light. Best if you like close-up stories over spectacle.
Taste details
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: very dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: intricate · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: very confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
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4.5 / 5
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About This Book
A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk. Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent ramblings of an inmate at the presumably secure institution begin to make chilling sense--they are, in fact, horrifying predictions.
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- Author
- Jonathan Kellerman
- Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 396
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- Open Library
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