Jonathan Kellerman: Silent Partner (USA 2013)

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At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist, Alex Delaware encounters a face from his own past -- Sharon Ransom, an exquisite, alluring lover who left him abruptly more than a decade earlier. Sharon now hints that she desperately needs help, but Alex evades her. The next day she is dead, an apparent suicide.

Driven by guilt and sadness, Alex plunges into the maze of Sharon's life -- a journey that will take him through the pleasure palaces of California's ultrarich, into the alleyways of the mind, where childhood terrors still hold sway.

Jonathan Kellerman: Silent Partner. Ballantine Books, ISBN: 9780345540232 (April, 2013), 498 p., $9.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Silent Partner (USA 2012)

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The first graphic novel adaptation from master of psychological suspense Jonathan Kellerman brings a stunning new visual edge to the classic New York Times bestseller Silent Partner -- a "harrowing tale of murder and manipulation" (The Plain Dealer) that "hits the reader right between the eyes" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

Alex Delaware is struggling to keep his relationship with girlfriend Robin Castagna alive when a beautiful face from the past suddenly steps back into his life. Sharon Ransom was Alex's lover back in the day -- until her mind games and increasingly erratic behavior drove them apart. Now Sharon tries to rekindle old feelings and seek his help with some new troubles. Alex turns her away -- a decision he bitterly regrets when Sharon ends up dead the next day.

The official ruling is suicide, but for Alex the case won't be closed until he finds out what happened. Driven by guilt and grief, he plunges deep into the territory he knows best -- where dark secrets, dangerous fears, and twisted needs prey on hearts and minds. With the aid of his trusted friend, homicide cop Milo Sturgis, Alex traces Sharon's fatal path through a world of Hollywood high life riddled with scandal, corruption, and blood -- where innocence and lives are easily lost.

Scripted by Ande Parks, author of the acclaimed graphic novels Union Station and Capote in Kansas, and illustrated by Marvel and DC comics veteran Michael Gaydos, Silent Partner captures Jonathan Kellerman's trademark blend of crime drama and psychodrama with noirish style and eye-catching, page-turning intensity.

Jonathan Kellerman: Silent Partner. Adapted by Ande Parks. Illustrated by Michael Gaydos. Villard, ISBN: 9780440423638 (March, 2012), 192 p., $23.00.

Jonathan Kellerman: Silent Partner (UK 2008)

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A vintage performance from the world's number one psychological thriller writer
Dr Sharon Ransom is the most beautiful woman in the room; she's also the most troubled. So when former lover, psychologist Alex Delaware, bumps into her at a lavish LA cocktail party, though still attracted to her, fear of reviving unhappy memories prevents him from offering the help she seems so desperate for.

Hours later, Sharon's body is discovered with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Tortured by guilt, Alex wants answers. As his investigation begins, dark memories of his past with Sharon emerge, and a present full of madness, murder and sexual violence unfolds.

Jonathan Kellerman: Silent Partner. An Alex Delaware Thriller. Headline, ISBN: 9780755342822 (June, 2008), 595 p., £7.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Silent Partner (USA 2003)

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The bestselling author of When The Bough Breaks, Blood Test, and Over The Edge delivers the most stunning novel yet and featuring psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware. At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist, Alex encounters a face from his own past - Sharon Ransom, an exquisite, alluring lover who left him abruptly more than a decade earlier. Sharon now hints that he desperately needs help, but Alex evades her. The next day she is dead, an apparent suicide. Driven by guilt and sadness, Alex plunges into the maze of Sharon's life -- a journey that will take him through the pleasure palaces of California's ultra-rich, into the dark closets of a family's disturbing past, and finally into the alleyways of the mind, where childhood terrors still hold sway.

Jonathan Kellerman: Silent Partner. An Alex Delaware Novel. Ballatine Books, ISBN: 0345460685 (April, 2003), 484 p., $7.99.

Jonathan Kellerman: Silent Partner (USA 1990)

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The bestselling author of When the Bough Breaks, Blood Test, and Over the Edge delivers the most stunning novel yet featuring psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware.

"A COMPLEX AND HAUNTING STORY OF TANGLED PERSONALITIES, DEEPLY BURIED FAMILY SECRETS, AND OF VIOLENCE LYING THINLY UNDER THE SURFACE... HITS THE READER RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES." - Los Angeles Times Book Review

At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist, Alex encounters a face from his own past - Sharon Ransom, an exquisite, alluring lover who left him abruptly more than a decade earlier. Sharon now hints that she desperately needs help, but Alex evades her. The next day she is dead, an apparent suicide.

"KELLERMAN POSSESSES A VOICE OF AUTHORITY AND AN UNCANNY GIFT FOR PERFECTLY PLACING EACH CHILLING REVELATION." -- Booklist

Driven by guilt and sadness, Alex plunges into the maze of Sharon's life -- a journey that will take him through the pleasure palaces of California's ultrarich, into the dark closets of a family's disturbing past, and finally into the alleyways of the mind, where childhood terrors still hold sway.

"(A) MOST INTRIGUING READ... COMPELLING." -- Daily News, New York
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Jonathan Kellerman: Silent Partner. An Alex Delaware Novel. Ballatine Books, ISBN: 0553285920 (September, 1990), 484 p., $5.95.

Jonathan Kellerman: Silent Partner (USA 1989)

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Jonathan Kellerman's Dr. Alex Delaware returns in a special case of childhood terror, and the best-selling author of When the Bough Breaks, Blood Test, and Over the Edge delivers the most shockingly savage and Over the Edge of his career.

Romance is the last thing on Alex Delaware's mind when he attends a cocktail party for psychology professor Paul Payne at one of Los Angeles's most lavish manors. Alex knows about Payne's "clinical experiments," his bizarre sex games and dubious endowment. He can't understand why such a man has received a prestigious academic award. He's further surprised to encounter a face from his own past among the guests: Sharon Ransom, his lover from more than a decade earlier. As exquisite, alluring, and unreadable as ever, Sharon hints that she needs help. Alex evades her and leaves. The next day she is dead, an apparent suicide.

Driven by guilt and sadness, Alex plunges into the maze of Sharon's life -- a riveting journey that will take him through the pleasure palaces of California's ultra-rich, into the dark closets of a family's disturbing past, and finally into the alleyways of the mind, where childhood terrors still hold sway. With little to go on but Sharon's long-ago tales, he puts together a web of clues -- an old film, some crude childish drawings, a photograph -- when suddenly his investigation takes a deadly turn and a murderer strikes.

Alex's friend, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis, warns him away from the grisly trail. But whether the answer to Sharon's death lies in the mind, in the heart, or in hard facts, Alex must grasp it to make peace with her memory.

With more than seven million books in print, JONATHAN KELLERMAN has achieved wide critical acclaim and enormous popularity with his masterful blend of the Chandler and Macdonald private eye tradition and a startlingly fresh approach to the psychological thriller. In Silent Partner, readers will find all the dazzling twists and turns of plot they have come to expect from this winner of the Edgar Allan Poe and Anthony Boucher awards, even as new dimensions in the character of Alex Delaware are revealed.

In addition to the Alex Delaware novels, Jonathan Kellerman is the author of The Butcher's Theater. Trained as a clinical psychologist specializing in children, he now writes full time. He and his wife, the novelist Faye Kellerman, live in southern California with their three children.

Jonathan Kellerman: Silent Partner. An Alex Delaware Novel. Ballatine Books, ISBN: 0553053701 (October, 1989), 484 p., $18.95.