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Book Review By Lorna
Therapy by Jonathan Kellerman

    Psychologist Alex Delaware and pal, Det. Milo Sturgis heading out for dinner and when sirens start to sound, it's not long before they're both once again knee deep in blood and corruption.

    The team finds two youngsters in a parked car, apparently once engaged in what youths often do in parked cars, except they're now dead, murdered.

    After informing the parents, the two find themselves struggling to make sense of the crime and find that the young boy was almost killed earlier in a car accident which left him injured. The poor kid was in therapy and he wasn't the only client seen by this particular therapist who had been murdered.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
How difficult to spot villain? - Difficult, but some clues given
Time/era of story:
Medical Thriller Yes
Medical Plotlets:
What % of story relates directly to the mystery, not the subplot? - 70%
Misc. Murder Plotlets - character killed during/after sexing - Big focus on forensic evidence
Kind of investigator
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10 %
Crime Thriller Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown) Yes

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - 40's-50's
Ethnicity/Race

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - California

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey descriptions deaths/dead bodies
Explicit sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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