12 Best Jonathan Kellerman Books

Retired child psychologist Alex Delaware is asked to help a young witness to a double murder. Working with detective Milo Sturgis, he tries to recover the girl's memories while uncovering a conspiracy that connects the crime to his own past.

A former patient's desperate call brings Alex Delaware to a psychiatric hospital, but the young man has vanished. When police identify him as a suspected serial killer, Alex examines his troubled history to determine whether madness or manipulation explains the accusations.

A gravely ill boy disappears from hospital after his parents refuse potentially lifesaving treatment. Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis follow the family's trail, uncovering disturbing beliefs and violent secrets while racing to find a child whose survival depends on help.

The mutilated body of a physician associated with assisted deaths draws Alex Delaware into a disturbing investigation. As he examines the doctor's controversial work and personal history, the search for a killer raises increasingly troubling questions about motives and responsibility.

A confined psychiatric patient appears to predict murders outside his institution, baffling Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis. Their investigation links mutilated victims, hospital secrets, and family histories while raising urgent questions about who is directing the violence.

Alex Delaware encounters former lover Sharon Ransom, who hints that she needs help, then dies in an apparent suicide. Driven by guilt, he investigates her life, uncovering buried family wounds and secrets beneath Southern California's wealthy social circles.

After a teenage sniper attacks a school playground, Alex Delaware helps the traumatized children and questions the shooter's motives. A request from the teenager's father draws him into the dead youth's past, where disturbing patterns point toward a larger plot.

Four bodies are discovered arranged inside a limousine at a deserted Bel Air mansion, each apparently killed differently. With no clear connection between the victims, Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis pursue a baffling crime marked by deliberate misdirection.

Twelve-year-old runaway Billy Straight witnesses a brutal murder in Griffith Park and flees into Los Angeles. Detective Petra Connor searches for both the killer and the frightened child, whose precarious life on the streets makes him an increasingly vulnerable witness.

A wealthy woman pressures the LAPD to reopen the decades-old killing of the mother she never knew. Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis revisit a burned car, scarce evidence and failed investigations, finding that the past still conceals present-day danger.

An anonymous album of crime-scene photographs reopens a murder that haunted Milo Sturgis early in his career. With Alex Delaware's help, he revisits the killing and uncovers secrets reaching into Los Angeles's powerful circles across two decades.

A gruesomely staged murder is followed by similar killings with no obvious connection between the victims. Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis pursue a cryptic clue through the mental-health system, including an institution linked to Alex's own professional past.