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Silent Partner

An Alex Delaware Novel

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Silent Partner

By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
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The best-selling author of When The Bough Breaks, Blood Test, and Over The Edge delivers the most stunning novel yet, 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 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 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.

Also available on BDD Audio Cassette.

©2003 Jonathan Kellerman (P)2012 Random House Audio Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction

Critic reviews

"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)
Engaging Mystery • Interesting Perspectives • Good Narrator • Twisting Plot • Diverting Work • Fascinating Listen
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Always loved Alex Delaware novels.
This one was terrible. It must have been at the very beginning of the series. Alex’s relationship with girlfriend, which runs through all the other novels adds a lot to those. The relationship takes so much away from this book. They don’t get along and it’s is just a simple but very negative space filling portion of the story. Adds nothing to the book.
Also not a narrator I recognized from any other reading, let alone a Kellerman novel, and I have over 700 books in my library. But, I will not buy a book that uses this narrator. Even if you LOVE the Delaware series, I’d save your money. I am asking for mine back.
I just didn’t have the time to keep calling Audible sooner, their computer has been down and couldn’t get through. First time in 7 years that has happened. Audible is great, just frustrating getting stuck with a poor book. Hope this gets you to think twice before purchasing Silent Partner by Kellermen.

Most disappointing

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Way too convoluted and choppy. Robin is whiney. Not enough Milo. Not worth the credit.

Disappointing..not worth the credit.

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I love the book, but it could use more than one narrator. One for men and one for women. However, I will continue to buy this series because I just love Alex and Milo.

One voice for all doesn't do it for me.

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It was a good story …. I like the series. It just got a bit convoluted and really long and some spots. There are so many characters and back-and-forth in the histories/timeline that you’re going to want to take notes of who he is talking about. and what year

Take notes

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Good story but too many gratuitous graphic female anatomy references. Leave out unnecessary sexual language and get on with it! I am not a prude but enough is enough. There is such a thing as common decency.

As for the narrator... sounds older that Alex is perceived, and leaves many overly long pauses, often in mid sentence, which leads one to believe It is the end of a chapter. Totally wrong for Davenport. Won’t purchase further books narrated by him.

I did not finish book. Too many distracting factors. Wasn't THAT Interesting.

Good story, but....

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I love the characters can't wait to download the next one in the series Today

Another great book

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Would you listen to Silent Partner again? Why?

No, I usually only go through a book once

Who was your favorite character and why?

Alex Delaware

Have you listened to any of Alexander Adams’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No

Any additional comments?

It was a little slow at times, but overall a great book

Great author and characters

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This was a typical Alex Delaware novel with the storyline unfolding carefully with dialogue between Alex and Milo. Well done.

Crazy twists and turns of this personality disorder.

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This story twists and turns with the best of them. Just when I thought I understood, I realized I did not understand. This is another fascinating Jonathan Kellerman Alex Delaware listen!

More complexity

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Jonathan Kellerman never disappoints. His detective novels are so very different than most that I read. Sort of feels like a break. But they are very intense and you have to have the time to pay close attention.

Another good Delaware novel

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