What I truly
appreciate is that when you pick up one of Kellerman’s books, you know exactly
what you are going to get, and The Museum of Desire” is no exception. (Review
by Barry Meehan)
A wild party at a rented Beverly Hills
mansion ends in the early hours of the morning, leaving in its wake four bodies
in an unlocked stretch limo, carefully posed in a gruesome and blood-soaked
tableau. There is absolutely nothing that links the bodies together, and each
has been killed in a different way.
LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis is put in
charge of what would appear to be a senseless case, but with his long-time
friend and psychologist Alex Delaware ably assisting, he digs deeper and deeper
into a twisted world of consummate evil, the like of which neither has ever
witnessed before, nor ever wanted to.
The Museum of Desire zips along
at a frantic pace in true Kellerman style, with plot twists and turns a-plenty,
as Sturgis and Delaware attack the seemingly unsolvable case with dogged
determination and insightful contemplation as to what the motives behind the
killings could possibly be, and what might be driving the perpetrators to
commit such heinous acts of violence.
As readers, we are well and truly drawn in
to twisted webs of sexual desire, greed and revenge in the Los Angeles art
world, where all is not as genteel as it seems. Suspects come and go with
alarming regularity, and the climactic end, after weeks of thorough
investigation, cannot be foreseen.
Jonathan Kellerman is the Number One New
York Times best-selling author of more than 40 crime novels, including the Alex
Delaware series. He has also co-authored two books with his best-selling
novelist wife, Faye Kellerman, and three with his best-selling novelist son,
Jesse Kellerman, all in the crime genre. A gifted family, indeed! He is also
the author of children’s books and numerous non-fiction works, including With
Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars.
I have long been a fan of the Alex Delaware
psychological thrillers. What I truly appreciate is that when you pick up one
of Kellerman’s books, you know exactly what you are going to get, and The
Museum of Desire” is no exception.
In my humble opinion, so many top-selling
authors of today have lessened their creativity and demeaned themselves by
writing “with” unknowns in the literary world, which leaves one wondering just
how much input there has been from the recognised author. I won’t mention names
here, but when I see a known author’s name “with” another unknown, I avoid them
as I feel that the “punch” has been taken away, and novels are just being
churned out as part of the money-making machine that literature has become in
today’s world.
Kellerman writes his novels on his own, so
hats off and kudos to him. The Museum of Desire is a great read and
well worth it.
Published by Century Publishers. ISBN:
0781780899046. RRP: R270.00 – Barry Meehan
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