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Award winner Jonathan Kellerman once more explores the corruption of California's golden coast and produces a novel of complex characterizations and nonstop suspense.
By the time psychologist Dr, Alex Delaware reached the school the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt.
While the TV news crews feasted on the scene an Alex began his therapy sessions with the traumatized children, he couldn't escape the image of a slight teenager clutching an oversized rifle.
What was the identity behind the name and face: a wouldbe assassin, or just another victim beneath an indifferent California sky

Intrigued by a request from the sniper's father to conduct a "psychological autopsy" of his child, Alex begins to uncover a strange pattern of innocence, neglect, and loss.
Then suddenly it is more than a pattern it is a trail of blood, In the dead sniper's past was a dark and vicious plot, And in Alex Delaware's future is the stuff of grownup nightmares: the face of real human evil, Published in, this one is about a school shooting, I picked it specifically because its plot is still relevant today, unfortunately,

In Los Angeles County, young school children are being bussed from poorer, "browner" parts of the county into more affluent, traditionally white schools.
On an otherwise ordinary morning, gunfire breaks out in the schoolyard during recess, The police arrive quickly and the sniper a teenaged girl is the only one dead, Both mayoral candidates soon show up at the school, telling news crews their perspective on the motive, One claims tensions over bussing laws exploded out of control the other side says a lone crazy person is all there was to it.


Meanwhile, Detective Milo Sturgis calls in Dr, Delaware to provide the children with posttraumatic therapy, Predictably, neither side is thrilled to have him there, Alex questions each political camp as well as those who knew the sniper best and slowly, a conspiracy of dark manipulation reveals itself.


Turns out I correctly picked the person behind it all during their first encounter with Dr, Delaware. Overall, this was pretty straightforward and kinda interesting except for Alex's new love interest in this one, he and longtime girlfriend Robin are taking a break.
The audio narrator uses a stupid, syrupy Southern accent for Linda, and Alex psychoanalyzes her in every scene together barf, I have somehow never read a book by Kellerman before, and this was solid, I did constantly wonder where Alex's regular patients were as he never

seemed to do any work in regards to his daytoday job.
But I liked the characters, and especially enjoyed that his good friend was a gay man but that was never made central to who the character was or played up in any way that was not relevant to the plot solid normalization, especially for.
Child psychologist Jonathan Kellerman writes complex murder mysteries featuring his alter ego, Alex Delaware, There aresuch novels to date, Time Bomb, published in, was the fifth in the seriesand the first I found disappointing,

The setup in Time Bomb is much like that of the earlier entries: to help children after a school shooting, Alex finds himself drawn further and further into a murder mystery.
That seemingly straightforward mystery quickly morphs into a complex case that heads off in several seemingly unrelated directions, Working with his friend, LAPD detective Milo Sturgisthough taking the lead himselfAlex weaves these disparate threads into a logical set of relationships that don't become clear until the end of the book.


As in the preceding novels, the tension steadily mounts, the complexities become progressively more confusing, and both Alex and Milo's lives are threatened, but all comes out well following a violent climax.
That school shooting turns out to have been far more complicated than it seemed at first, Unfortunately, in a way that's disturbingly reminiscent of the formulaic whodunits of Agatha Christie and her ilk, sorting it all out at the end requires far too much explanation.
And one central character demonstrates technological capabilities that might well have been within the reach of the National Security Agency inbut were surely out of reach of any individual.


Despite these disappointments, reading the novel brings rewards, Kellerman's research into the Holocaust, though it reveals nothing new, is well done, His exploration of the history of neoNazi activities in the United States is engaging, The insight Kellerman offers about how children react to trauma is obviously on point, And it's always a pleasure to learn more about the work of Alex Delaware, which surely reflects the author's personal experience, Ive read Kellermans books before, and enjoyed them, So, when thisnovel popped up on BookBub forbucks, I downloaded it, Like his other books, this one is written in the first person from the POV of Alex Delaware, a psychologist who often works as a consultant to the LAPD by way of his friendship with Detective Milo Sturgis.


Kellermans style is spare, focusing more on the physical elements of a scene rather than expose the emotions of his characters.
For those insights, we are fortunate to have the observations of Dr, Delaware, who is clinical but describes the motives of other characters colorfully, Frankly, thats the draw of the book and what sets it apart from other thriller/mysteries,

I enjoyed the story primarily because of the authors writing skills, My one complaint is the book is just too damn long, If it waspages shorter it would have been a great book, .stars

After readingbooks in Alex Delaware series I get the formula down to the "t", The motive is not always as simple as it seems and it is always, ALWAYS, rather overthetop explanation, Like this one, starting from a 'simple' shooting at school, and the shooter was shot, and it developed into something related to "Nazi" principles of white supremacist.


Yeah. That.

But I still enjoyed it mainly because Milo played quite a nice role here he always made the book more fun somehow and I actually liked the 'break' that Alex took from Robin somehow that woman didn't rock my sock.
Plus Alex was quite a bad ass, when he protected the kids from those politicians, . .

And considering that my Kindle clocked this atpages, it didn't feel as long as the previous three books excluding bookthat I felt were boring.
If you want something to help you go to sleep then read "Time Bomb," which, to put it bluntly, is a real bomb.
One word best summarizes it, however, and that is "boring, " For one, the story is implausible two, Alex Delaware comes across as pompous and, three, Milo Sturgis plays a very small part in the story and Milo is by far Kellerman's best character.
In fact, now that I have reconsidered my rating, one star would be more appropriate, .