Dr. Jonathan Kellerman says: Ignore Your Past At Your Own Peril
"I stand here as living proof that some good comes out of obsessive-compulsive behavior," says New York Times bestseller, Jonathan Kellerman, whose newest thriller, Obsession dives into dark psychological arenas of obsessive-compulsive behavior and follows a twisting trail from L.A's sleaziest districts to its overblown mansions.
Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when psychologist, Dr. Alex Delaware, successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now at nineteen, she returns to him again after her aunt and adoptive mother, Patty Bigelow, makes a deathbed confession of murder. (Tanya's mother abandoned her when she was three and was later killed in a motorcycle accident).
Kellerman likes to say he writes whydunits and whodunits. But in Obsession, he asks: Did the murder even happen? Was there a crime?
Delaware recalls Tanya's aunt as a single, self-less E.R.nurse struggling to raise a child on her own, someone seemingly incapable of the terrible crime she has admitted to committing. But for Tanya's peace of mind, he agrees to investigate and enlists LAPD detective Milo Sturgis. As the two search for the phantom victim of a crime that may never have occurred, suddently, a real murder tears open a terrifying tunnel into the past where secrets-and bodies-point to a history of desperation, vengeance and a legacy of evil that refuses to die.
Delaware, himself a bit of a obsessive-compulsive personality, is driven to solve crimes," says Kellerman, "because crime is a serious business."
And Kellerman admits to sharing some of these type-A qualities with Delaware.
"Yes, I have some obsessive-compulsive tendencies," says Kellerman who says he was a bit of a neat freak at an early age. "My mother never had to tell me to clean my room."
Dr. Jonathan Kellerman has brought his expertise as a clinical psychologist to over two dozen bestselling crime novels. He has won the Goldwyn, Edgar, and Anthony awards and been nominated for a Shamus Award. Jonathan and his wife, author Faye Kellerman, live in California and New Mexico. Their four children include novelist Jesse Kellerman.
