Twisted: A Novel

By Jonathan Kellerman

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
With her energies focused on a baffling, vicious gang slaying and her personal life in shambles, Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has a full plate. The last thing she needs is a whiz-kid grad student claiming to have stumbled upon a bizarre connection between several unsolved murders.
 
“An elaborate, tangled web . . . With unsuspected turns at every chapter break . . . this addictive tale . . . is as intricately detailed as it is tantalizingly page-turning.”—Entertainment Weekly
 
The victims had nothing in common, yet each died by the same method, on the same date—a date that’s rapidly approaching again. And that leaves Petra with little time to unravel the twisted logic of a cunning predator who’s evaded detection for years—and whose terrible hour is once more at hand.

BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman's Guilt.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Nov 23, 2004
• ISBN: 9780345482013

Jonathan Kellerman

Jonathan Kellerman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty bestselling crime novels, including the Alex Delaware series, The Butcher’s Theater, Billy Straight, The Conspiracy Club, Twisted, and True Detectives. With his wife, bestselling novelist Faye Kellerman, he coauthored Double Homicide and Capital Crimes. He is also the author of two children’s books and numerous nonfiction works, including Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children and With Strings Attached: The Art and Beauty of Vintage Guitars. He has won the Goldwyn, Edgar, and Anthony awards and has been nominated for a Shamus Award. 

Reviews for Twisted

[elizabethcromb · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Interesting spin on police /homicide story with a PhD student finding historical links to current unsolved crimes in LA, USA.

[ecw0647 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Well, I finished this. For some reason I had set it aside some time ago (audio) and forgot I was listening to it. Unlike most of the Kellerman series it doesn't feature Alex Delaware and his friend Milo, rather Detective Petra Connor and Eric, her erstwhile lover, who apparently walks on water. The show stealer is Isaac, a PhD candidate interning with the police department, who, through diligent research and a hell of a randy librarian, manages to find the connection between the killer and his victims. Perhaps a bit tenuous connection in my book, but way to whittle away the time.

[debavp · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was a super fast read and one of Kellerman’s better works. I really do like Petra but Kellerman is very, very vague with her development, although that surprisingly doesn’t hurt the story. Delaware and Sturgis are briefly mentioned in this, but aren’t involved. Again, there was a way to work them in easily but I like that Kellerman didn’t. While the title character from the first work is briefly mentioned, I think Isaac would be interesting to have as a pop-up character from time to time. I’m disappointed to see that Kellerman hasn’t continued the series, especially as he left the opening there for future works. Here’s hoping that this isn’t really the last we see of Petra.

[emscape · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

In Kellerman’s second book to focus exclusively on LAPD detective Petra Connor, Petra is involved in two cases simultaneously. First, four teens are gunned down at a concert with no apparent motive and one victim is proving difficult to identify. Second, Petra’s genius intern has identified a pattern of murders occurring on June 28 every year with the same cause of death.Both investigations move at a realistic pace (which I appreciate, because a lot of crime shows and novels portray crimes as being solved in a matter of days which never happens in real life); when one slows down, the other picks up and keeps up the suspense of the novel. Though I found the book difficult to put down throughout, it was impossible to tear my eyes away from the last four chapters. I think I spilled juice on myself trying to read and drink at the same time. I really like Petra and wish Kellerman would write more about her.

[darrol_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I liked this one better than recent Delaware installments. A little stretch in plausibility and some other false notes, but I enjoyed the Isaac Gomez character--his genius and his escapades in love.

[carolyn18_1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

It was a little slow-paced at the beginning but it managed to move along later on in the story. Not bad. Maybe it's because I didn't read the rest of the series.

[miyurose_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed the book. I like Kellerman's change of pace with the new protagonist. He's probably getting a little burned out writing about Alex Delaware all the time.

[caveman_bob · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

another Kellerman, this one starring Petra and mentioning Dr. Delaware several times so there must be continuity amongst his characters .. I continue my research