Unnatural History: The gripping new Alex Delaware thriller from the international bestselling author

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I read my first 'Alex Delaware' book in 1995, always anxious for the next one after I caught up with the earlier books. Kellerman, a trained psychologist, brings authenticity to his thoughtful protagonist…This long-running series is still going strong.

We learn about Kate’s possibly stalling career and Leo’s plan to apply to acting schools against his mother’s wishes. That's the situation when twenty-nine-year-old photographer Donny Klement is found shot to death in his studio.He is the author of two children’s books and numerous nonfiction works, including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children and With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars . Jonathan Kellerman is the Number One New York Times bestselling author of more than forty crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The Butcher's Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, True Detectives, and The Murderer's Daughter. As might be expected, the main appeal of these books is the personal relationships, especially the one between Alex and Milo. This begins with the encountering of the hysterical assistant to a wealthy photographer she's just found in bed, quite dead as a result of three bullets. We also see Milo and Alex's peregrinations around Los Angeles, which provides a good feel for the sprawling city.

They do manage to find a couple of the models but they appear to have liked Donny and were grateful to him. The left-hand photo shows a dirty disheveled homeless person off the street, and the right-hand photo shows the same person cleaned up and dressed as someone they wish to be. The story centers on the murder of Donny (Adonis) Klement, a trusting soul whose photographic project dealt with "The Wishers" - a group of houseless individuals (as they are referred to here in Oregon) who were cleaned up and dressed to be photographed as what they wish their lives would have been. Then new murders arise, and Alex and Milo begin peeling back layer after layer of intrigue and complexity, culminating in one of the deadliest threats they’ve ever faced. Donny Klement was involved in a community project, taking photographs of homeless people dressed in costumes as their dream selves.Although always formulaic, they were exciting, held my interest, and left me wanting to know when the next one was being published. A wealthy photographer has been murdered in his studio – his project was finding homeless people and having them dress up in costumes relating to the personas they wished to be, taking before and after photos, giving them a bit of cash and sending them on their way. It could be awkward, one supposes, to make witty observations about those living rough on the street. And the plot is a sinister tale full of twists, turns, deception, mayhem, suspicious personalities, revelations, homelessness, familial dysfunction, mental illness, and murder.