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Title: Bones

Subtitle: An Alex Delaware Novel

Author: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrator: John Rubinstein

Format: Abridged

Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-21-08

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The murdered women are prostitutes - except the most recent victim; a brilliant young musician from the East Coast, employed by a wealthy family to tutor a musical prodigy, Selena Bass seems out of place in the marsh's grim tableau.

Conveniently - perhaps ominously - Selena's blueblood employers are nowhere to be found, and their estate's jittery caretaker raises hackles. But Milo's instincts and Alex's insight are too well-honed to settle for easy answers, even given the dark secrets in this troubled man's past. Their investigation unearths disturbing layers - about victims, potential victims, and suspects alike - plunging even deeper into the murky marsh's enigmatic depths.

Bizarre details of the crimes suggest a devilish serial killer prowling L.A.'s gritty streets. But when a new murder deviates from the pattern, derailing a possible profile, Alex and Milo must look beyond the suspicion of madness and consider an even more sinister mind at work. Answers don't come easy, but the darkest of drives and desires may fuel the most devious of foes.

Bones is classic Kellerman - relentlessly peeling back the skin and psyches of its characters and revealing the shadows and sins of the souls beneath. With jolt after jolt of galvanizing suspense, it drives the reader through its twists and turns toward a climax as satisfying as it is shattering.

Critic Reviews:

"A genuine page-turner . . . The comfortable banter that has helped make Delaware and Sturgis such durable crime-story heroes is as rapid-fire, keen, and wryly funny as ever, and the mystery they aim to solve is certainly not routine." (Booklist)

Members Reviews:

Give Chance a chance

Chance is Chance Brandt, a teenager who redefines the word 'obnoxious'. BONES opens with Chance and what an opener it is. After that, things get a little more conventional. The story, ultimately, concerns the death of a family, in multiple senses of that phrase. The form, of course, is police procedural with a dash of psychological thriller, not Greek tragedy, but there is blood enough (as well as bone fragments) for most readers. The linear investigation eventually breaks down and we reach a definitive conclusion that is satisfying if not always completely plausible. The plot is a bit convoluted in the second and third acts as Milo and Alex peel away layers of family history and the list of dramatis personae begins to proliferate. Still, this is a good read and Chance is worth the price of admission. Let's hope he returns in a future book with a more central role. It's interesting that there is an S/M subplot in the novel, since Chance is both a very great pleasure and an enormous pain in the backside. He is the uber-slacker.

Not my favorite Alex Delaware Novel

Bones is a story about wealth, greed, sex and exploitation of the weak. The mystery begins with the discovery of a lovely wooden box purchased in a storage unit auction. The box contains tiny, polished bones. Dr. Delaware and Milo must solve the mystery of the bones and well as four more bodies found in a protected wetland reserve which are related to the box. As always, the search covers L.A., it's grittier areas contrasted with the exclusive neighborhoods of the rich and powerful.