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Alex Delaware #10, 8

The Web / Bad Love

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Published January 1, 1999

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Jonathan Kellerman

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Jonathan Kellerman was born in New York City in 1949 and grew up in Los Angeles. He helped work his way through UCLA as an editorial cartoonist, columnist, editor and freelance musician. As a senior, at the age of 22, he won a Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for fiction.

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 Though no longer active as a psychotherapist, he is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Psychology at University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.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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February 5, 2021
I really enjoy the Alex Delaware books but this one, "The Web", was a little weird. It started out really good but toward the end it went off the rails with a completely unbelievable ending. I haven't read "Bad Love" yet but may wait awhile.
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August 8, 2017
Good, fast, Alex Delaware without Milo! Island in the Pacific with big secrets.
494 reviews2 followers
October 16, 2016
It was OK. I may try another one of his sometime.
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339 reviews2 followers
March 3, 2017
Another great Alex Delaware novel.
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315 reviews42 followers
April 18, 2012
Actually one and a half stars; the first novel was simply preposterous, while the second one (BL) was solid and even fairly intriguing.
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36 reviews1 follower
May 26, 2012
I loved it! My first book by Kellerman and I love him and Alex Delaware. Great characters, fascinating story plus, I love Kellerman's writing style. Must read more of these books!
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