TY - BOOK AU - Kellerman,Jonathan TI - Heartbreak Hotel T2 - An Alex Delaware novel SN - 9781524756475 PY - 2017///] CY - [New York] PB - Random House Large Print KW - Delaware, Alex (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Sturgis, Milo (Fictitious character) KW - Police KW - California KW - Los Angeles KW - Los Angeles (Calif.) KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcgft KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - Suspense fiction KW - gsafd KW - Large type books N2 - 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 ER -