“If you ever need someone to talk to . . .”

“I’ll bear that in mind.”

“Do that,” she said. “I mean it.”

Other Books by Jonathan Kellerman

BOOKS BY JONATHAN KELLERMAN

Fiction

THE MURDER BOOK (2002)

FLESH AND BLOOD (2001)

DR. DEATH (2000)

MONSTER (1999)

BILLY STRAIGHT (1998)

SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST (1997)

THE CLINIC (1997)

THE WEB (1996)

SELF-DEFENSE (1995)

BAD LOVE (1994)

DEVIL’S WALTZ (1993)

PRIVATE EYES (1992)

TIME BOMB (1990)

SILENT PARTNER (1989)

THE BUTCHER’S THEATER (1988)

OVER THE EDGE (1987)

BLOOD TEST (1986)

WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS (1985)

Nonfiction

SAVAGE SPAWN: REFLECTIONS ON VIOLENT CHILDREN (1999)

HELPING THE FEARFUL CHILD (1981)

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CHILDHOOD CANCER (1980)

For Children, Written and Illustrated

JONATHAN KELLERMAN’S ABC OF WEIRD CREATURES (1995)

DADDY, DADDY, CAN YOU TOUCH THE SKY? (1994)

Copyright

A Ballantine Book

Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group

Copyright © 2002 by Jonathan Kellerman

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Ballantine and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are a
product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kellerman, Jonathan.

The murder book / Jonathan Kellerman.

p. cm.

ISBN 0-345-45864-8

1. Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Sturgis, Milo (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 3. Police–California—Los Angeles—Fiction. 4. Clinical psychologists—Fiction. 5. Los Angeles (Calif.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3561.E3865 M87 2002b

813′.54—dc21

2002074733

v1.0

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