Authors: Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman
Series: Clay Edison #4
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Genre: Mystery/Thrillers
Format: Kindle
No. of pages: 304
Date of Publication: August 6, 2024
Date of Publication: August 6, 2024
Rating: 5 Stars
DESCRIPTION:
The gripping new Clay Edison thriller from the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King)
It's been almost a year since Clay Edison was forced out of his job at the coroner's bureau. Now he's on his own, working as a private eye. When a client brings him a fraud case, Clay dives into a decades-old scheme targeting the vulnerable. His investigation leads him to a bizarre town buried in the remote California wilderness. The residents don't care much for outsiders. They certainly don't like Clay asking questions. And they'll do just about anything to shut him up.
It's been almost a year since Clay Edison was forced out of his job at the coroner's bureau. Now he's on his own, working as a private eye. When a client brings him a fraud case, Clay dives into a decades-old scheme targeting the vulnerable. His investigation leads him to a bizarre town buried in the remote California wilderness. The residents don't care much for outsiders. They certainly don't like Clay asking questions. And they'll do just about anything to shut him up.
MY THOUGHTS:
If getting hung up on was a an Olympic sport, all the competitors would be PIs.
Yes, our deputy coroner Clay Edison has now become a private investigator. He just might have crossed one too many lines on his previous case. Quite naturally, looking for missing people can seem to be the “normal” type of case, but this time it is different. He has been hired to look into a case of fraud that takes him deep into the California wilderness.
When a murder takes place, it is quickly learned that something is terribly amiss. The body is hardly cold in the ground and people are fighting about the inheritance. But, things get deeper than that. Apparently there has been a scheme for some time that is swindling elderly people out of their wealth.
Clay proves very determined to get to the bottom of things, and begins turning every stone as he digs deeper and deeper. However, the deeper Clay searches, the more the folks in the small town he is in are reluctant to talk.
Along with an excellent plot, exceptional characters and the remote location where the story takes place, this fifth book in the Clay Edison series was an utterly compelling read. Now…to wait for book six.
Many thanks to Random House/Ballantine Books and to NetGalley for this ARC for review. This is my honest opinion.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Like his fictional protagonist, Alex Delaware, Jonathan received at Ph.D. in psychology at the age of 24, with a specialty in the treatment of children. He served internships in clinical psychology and pediatric psychology at Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles and was a post-doctoral HEW Fellow in Psychology and Human Development at CHLA.
IN 1975, Jonathan was asked by the hospital to conduct research into the psychological effects of extreme isolation (plastic bubble units) on children with cancer, and to coordinate care for these kids and their families. The success of that venture led to the establishment, in 1977 of the Psychosocial Program, Division of Oncology, the first comprehensive approach to the emotional aspects of pediatric cancer anywhere in the world. Jonathan was asked to be founding director and, along with his team, published extensively in the area of behavioral medicine. Decades later, the program, under the tutelage of one of Jonathan's former students, continues to break ground.
Jonathan's first published book was a medical text, PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CHILDHOOD CANCER, 1980. One year later, came a book for parents, HELPING THE FEARFUL CHILD.
In 1985, Jonathan's first novel, WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS, was published to enormous critical and commercial success and became a New York Times bestseller. BOUGH was also produced as a t.v. movie and won the Edgar Allan Poe and Anthony Boucher Awards for Best First Novel. Since then, Jonathan has published a best-selling crime novel every year, and occasionally, two a year. In addition, he has written and illustrated two books for children and a nonfiction volume on childhood violence, SAVAGE SPAWN (1999.) Though no longer active as a psychotherapist, he is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Psychology at University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.
Jonathan is married to bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman and they have four children.
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