Jonathan Kellerman, an Edgar award winning American author, is well known and well loved all over the world; the instalments of his Alex Delaware series has been on the top of best-selling lists since decades. The newest one (the twenty-sixth) Mystery, is a riveting crime thriller novel.
An unknown young woman was found shot and maimed in Los Angeles; judging by the wounds on her face and the different killing bullets, there were at least two perpetrators. Lieutenant Milo Sturgis asks psychologist Alex Delaware to help him with the peculiar case. Alex recognises the victim: he and his girlfriend has just seen her (beautiful, sad, elegant – and alive) the previous night in the bar of the Fauborg Hotel in Beverly Hills; they also seen an odd figure lingering outside. However, the bar is closed and the unknown man disappeared. Soon it turns out that she was a part of an online match-making site which offers young female escorts to elderly, wealthy men. Her nickname on the site was Mystery, and she has found a partner there: Markham McReynolds whose rich family has a shady reputation. In the world of escort services it is not hard to find several possible suspects, thus Alex and Milo have a hard time to find the actual murderer.
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