Bones by Jonathan Kellerman
I think I made a mistake. Although several books have been reviewed in between the two, I actually read Bones straight after Obsession. And that was a mistake. I have been reading Kellerman’s Alex Delaware novels every year for the past 20 years, and loving each book in its turn. However, two in a row pointed out the formula Kellerman uses just too obviously.
Innocent youth brutally murdered by a serial killer with a shadowy past. That is the basic plot of all of Kellerman’s works. However, this time the serial killer had been practicing his craft for decades before anyone caught on. And of course it was Alex who decided to go back through the personal backgrounds of everyone even remotely connected to the case and find the link.
This book did introduce a new team of detectives, Moses and Aaron. Moses, or Moe, is a police detective, young and talented, or at least Sturgis thinks so. Aaron was a police detective but long ago left the plodding routine for a much more exciting, or at least profitable, career as a private investigator. Together all four work together and uncover the series of crimes and who-dun-it.
This is an entertaining read, and had I read it as it was released rather than just after Obsession, I am sure that I would have thoroughly enjoyed this like so many other Kellerman novels. And I am not worried by an entertaining read. Sometimes it is nice to have dessert after meat and potatoes.
