Heartbreak Hotel /
Kellerman, Jonathan,
Heartbreak Hotel / Jonathan Kellerman. - First large print edition. - 493 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. - - An Alex Delaware novel . - Kellerman, Jonathan. Alex Delaware novels. .
At nearly one hundred years old, Thalia Mars is a far cry from the patients child psychologist Alex Delaware normally treats. But the charming, witty woman convinces Alex to meet with her in a suite at the Aventura, a luxury hotel with a checkered history. What Thalia wants from Alex are answers to unsettling questions --about guilt, patterns of criminal behavior, victim selection. When Alex asks the reason for her morbid fascination, Thalia promises to tell all during their next session. But when he shows up the following morning, he is met with silence: Thalia is dead in her room. When questions arise about how Thalia perished, Alex and homicide detective Milo Sturgis must peel back the layers of a fascinating but elusive woman's life and embark on one of the most baffling investigations either of them has ever experienced. For Thalia Mars is a victim like no other, an enigma who harbored nearly a century of secrets and whose life and death draw those around her into a vortex of violence.
9781524756475 1524756474
Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Sturgis, Milo (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Police--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Large type books.
Heartbreak Hotel / Jonathan Kellerman. - First large print edition. - 493 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. - - An Alex Delaware novel . - Kellerman, Jonathan. Alex Delaware novels. .
At nearly one hundred years old, Thalia Mars is a far cry from the patients child psychologist Alex Delaware normally treats. But the charming, witty woman convinces Alex to meet with her in a suite at the Aventura, a luxury hotel with a checkered history. What Thalia wants from Alex are answers to unsettling questions --about guilt, patterns of criminal behavior, victim selection. When Alex asks the reason for her morbid fascination, Thalia promises to tell all during their next session. But when he shows up the following morning, he is met with silence: Thalia is dead in her room. When questions arise about how Thalia perished, Alex and homicide detective Milo Sturgis must peel back the layers of a fascinating but elusive woman's life and embark on one of the most baffling investigations either of them has ever experienced. For Thalia Mars is a victim like no other, an enigma who harbored nearly a century of secrets and whose life and death draw those around her into a vortex of violence.
9781524756475 1524756474
Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Sturgis, Milo (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Police--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Large type books.