There are no descriptions of his looks, how tall he is, how old, so that makes him perhaps different for each reader. He has a troubled childhood with a violent father, was taken in by an aunt and likes to play piano. Whilst the reader can easily imagine Milo, Robin, Alex’s girlfriend and other characters in the novel, Alex Delaware himself is much more blurred and hard to pin down. As Alex and Milo look into his past they find a billionaire absentee father, a dead mother and half siblings who appear for all intents and purposes as only children, a conscious act by their detached and much married parent. The victim in Unnatural History is Donny Klement, attractive and rich. The stories look at the depravity of humans, the ability to damage each other and the world around them in infinite ways. In Unnatural History there are a limited number of suspects for example but it is the motive, as it often is in Alex Delaware novels, that is the key. There are clues but they are discovered at the same time as the protagonists, so that the reader discovers who the murderer is as the same time as Alex and Milo. This series don’t feature the regular who dun its.
There aren’t spoilers for previous books but you do get to see the character development if you take the series in order. Start at the beginning with When the Bough Breaks.
If you haven’t read this series yet, you are in for a treat.
How did he come to be found in bed with three shots to his chest? As more murders take place Alex and Milo are in a race to find a cruel killer. The victim was a photographer who had been taking images of homeless people living out their dream fantasy life. Lieutenant Milo Sturgis calls in best friend, Physiologist Alex Delaware when a man is found shot dead in a warehouse in downtown LA.
But there were many who saw the work as crass exploitation.ĭid anger turn to homicidal rage? Or do the roots of violence reach down to the victim’s own family?Īs new murders arise, Alex and Milo must peel back the layers of the case – and will find themselves coming up against in one of the deadliest threats they’ve ever faced… The victim had just received rave media attention for his latest project – images of homeless people living out their ‘dreams’. When a photographer is found inside an LA warehouse slumped in bed, shot to death, it sets in motion a complex and dangerous case for Lieutenant Milo Sturgis and Psychologist Alex Delaware.
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