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    True Detectives: A Novel

    Written by Jonathan Kellerman

    Narrated by John Rubinstein

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    In Jonathan Kellerman's gripping novels, the city of Los Angeles is as much a living, breathing character as the heroes and villains who roam its labyrinthine streets. Sunny on the surface but shadowy beneath, this world of privilege and pleasure has a dark core and a dangerous edge. In True Detectives, Kellerman skillfully brings his renowned gifts for breathless suspense and sharp psychological insight to a tale that resonates on every level and satisfies at every turn.

    Bound by blood but divided by troubles as old as Cain and Abel, Moses Reed and Aaron Fox were first introduced in Kellerman's bestselling Bones. They are sons of the same strong-willed mother, and their respective fathers were cops, partners, and friends. Their turbulent family history has set them at odds, despite their shared calling. Moses-part Boy Scout, part bulldog, man of few words-is a no-frills LAPD detective. Aaron, sharp dresser and smooth operator, is an ex-cop turned high-end private eye. Usually they go their separate ways. But the disappearance of Caitlin Frostig isn't usual. For Moses, it's an ice-cold mystery he just can't outrun, even with the help of psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis. For Aaron, it's a billable-hours bonanza from his most lucrative client. Like it or not, Moses and Aaron are in this one together-and the rivalry that rules them won't let either man quit till the case is cracked.

    A straight-arrow, straight-A student from Malibu, Caitlin has only two men in her life: her sullen single father and her wholesome college sweetheart, who even the battling brothers agree seems too downright upright to be true. Reluctantly tag-teaming in a desperate search for fresh leads, Moses and Aaron zero in on Caitlin's white knight as their primary "person of interest," hoping that, like most people in L.A., he has a secret side.

    But they uncover more than just a secret as they descend into the sinister, seamy side of the City of Angels after dark, populated by a Hollywood Babylon cast of the glamorous and the damned: a millionaire movie director turned hatemongering eccentric; a desperate Beverly Hills housewife looking for an exit from the fast lane; a heartthrob actor being eaten alive by personal demons; a hooker who's probably seen it all . . . and might just know too much. And at the center, a dead young woman whose downward spiral and brutal end loom over Moses and Aaron like an omen of what may come to be if the dark end of the street claims another lost soul.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 24, 2009
    ISBN9780739376447
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    True Detectives: A Novel
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    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. 

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    • 4/5
      Reprising their appearance in his novel, Bones, we again meet Moses Reed and Aaron Fox. Fox is a PI, Reed an LAPD detective. They are also half-brothers. While not at violent odds with one another, they have not been close. Now they find themselves working the same case from different directions. In order to solve the crime(s?) they must put together their individually-secured evidence and, in the process, put together their relationship.

      Jonathan Kellerman's world is always gory and a little seedy, but I enjoy a sense of physical relief when the bad guy is caught and made to pay.
    • 4/5
      Detective Moses Reed was introduced in Jonathan Kellerman's last novel, Bones. In that novel, Moe was an eager rookie learning at the feet of the great Milo Sturgis. He was a fairly minor character, the most interesting thing about him being the seething antipathy that surfaced when he came into contact with his half brother, Aaron Fox, former LAPD turned private investigator. In True Detectives, Moe Reed and Aaron Fox are at center stage, with Sturgis and Alex Delaware being relegated to walk-on parts.Moe is already on the case of Caitlin Frostig, a young woman missing and presumed dead, when his brother is hired by a third party to look into her disappearance. Their working methods are as different as their life-styles, appearances, and even races (the sons of the same white mother, Aaron's father was Darius Fox, an African-American police officer killed in the line of duty, Moses's father was Darius's white partner, who later married his widow).The investigation into the disappearance of Caitlin Frostig leads to a cold case, the unsolved murder of a young mother and the disappearance of her months old baby. From there, the involvement of a junkie movie star, the wanna-be rock star spawn of a Michael Moore-esque filmmaker, and assorted low life pimps and hookers drags the investigation in directions no one would have imagined at the outset.The dynamic between the brothers, each an interesting, well-rounded character in his own right, is what truly drives True Detectives. It's nice to view Alex Delaware, usually front and center and narrating the action in his own voice, from another perspective, and Milo Sturgis is, of course, a big, growly, charming bear.Kellerman's writing and plotting seems invigorated by the introduction of some fresh perspectives. True Detectives is his best novel in several years.
    • 4/5
      True Detectives is a story of how Los Angeles detectives actually were able to figure out who murdered two women with no leads. It is somewhat of a sad story in that it deals with desperate people and what they will do to make money or satisfy their drug addictions. It is a good book from the beginning until the end wherein all of the loose ends are neatly tied up. Too bad that life is not always nicely concluded. Four stars were awarded in this book review.
    • 4/5
      A great detective story where all the peices are spread all over and slowly get put back together.... the end result is more than you would expect but exactly what you wanted at the same time...
    • 4/5
      Summary:A missing girl. A despondent father. A case so cold that it is given to a newly transferred detective as a “welcoming” present. The case concerns one Caitlyn Frostig who disappeared one night on her way back from her shift at a local bar. No one saw her disappear. She had no enemies and her boyfriend has an air tight alibi. The case is a dead end on the surface at least until the employer of Caitlyn’s father gets involved. His employee is distracted by the disappearance of his daughter and that is bad for business, so Mr. Dimitri decides it is time to go around the police and bring in some outside help. This help comes in the form of Mr. Aaron Fox, a former detective turned P.I. and step brother to Moses Reed. Moses Reed just happens to also be the newly transferred detective that was given the Frostig case. Though it takes some work and some putting aside of “issues” the two start to unravel the sordid mess that surrounds the case and find themselves taking on the lowest of street thugs and the highest of Hollywood Stars as the number of victims climbs and the fate of the original victim seems to be further and further out of reach. My Thoughts:This was an enjoyable read. The mystery part of the story kept me guessing and the characters were pretty well developed. This book does appear to be part of a series or a connected world so some of the plot points mentioned were a little vague to me but it didn’t distract from the story. If your looking for a fast paced mystery give this one a read.
    • 3/5
      Two (half) brothers, one a cop and white, the other a high end private detective and black, are involved in what appears to be two connected abductions. It leads them to a troubled, anorexic actor and a hypocritically religious scumbag of a film director who abuses his wife. The scumbag fathers a child on a woman who is then truly abducted. By whom would be telling. An interesting twist on the detective sleeping with the perpetrator (or in this case, a guilty party). The mother the brothers share is an interesting, flamboyant character. Alex Delaware does not play much of a part. I also enjoyed the subplot of the private detective's undercover, female associate.
    • 4/5
      Not an Alex Delaware novel but with all the familiar faces. Coming from the perspectives of two very different detectives and with some very interesting glimpses into their background, this book does not play out in the more typical fashion of other Kellerman books. A good read all around.
    • 3/5
      A bit slow to start, I thought. And I don't like Moe and Aaron as much as I like Alex and Milo.By the time I finished the book though, I'd definitely enjoyed it.
    • 3/5
      I prefer the Alex Delaware novels. The brothers are interesting, but the friendship between Alex and Milo is more compelling than the antagonism between the brothers, one a private detective and one a cop.
    • 4/5
      This is loosely tied to Kellerman's Alex Delaware series, about a psychologist who consults often with the police. In the last book in the series, Kellerman introduced two new detectives, Aaron Fox and Moses Reed.. They are brothers with the same mother, but different fathers. Aaron, the older, is the son of a black cop, and Moe is the son of a white cop who was the black cop's partner. The brothers do not get along. Reed is a policeman while Fox is a private detective. Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis, the main characters for most of the series, almost don't show up in this novel at all. It is all about Reed and Fox. They wind up on the same case of a college student who has been missing for a year and a half. Their antagonism is sometimes put aside for the sake of solving the case.The story is a good one, though perhaps a little overlong. The new guys are good, and one of the best characters is their mother. But I miss both Alex and Milo.
    • 2/5
      I'm fond of Jonathan Kellerman's books, but this one was a disappointment.Generally, his books are well-plotted with interesting well-developed characters & unusual spins on behavior that keep me absorbed & in suspense. I also really like his wife's books (Faye Kellerman) & I enjoy the way they mix their LA characters into each other's worlds. It makes the world of their LA more real somehow.This book is okay, but just okay. The characters are okay, the plot is okay, it's just kind of flat & okay. It feels perfunctory in the way a series starts to feel when the author has written too many too fast for too long & is running out of ideas &/or desire (see also, Patricia Cornwell). Kellerman's writing about new characters here, but it still falls flat. Hopefully the next one out will have improved. He's capable of writing great mysteries/thrillers which makes this one even more disappointing.
    • 3/5
      This was a spin-off book from the Alex Delaware series and I struggled to get into it and found that it was not a book that I was eagerly making and finding time to read. Being a huge fan of the Alex Delaware series I found this disappointing. The thing I found most interesting was the celebrity character Lem Dement seemed to be, in my mind, based on Mel Gibson . .. Lem v.s. Mel - is it just me? Hoping that Kellerman goes back to the Delaware novels with a more engaging story line next time.
    • 3/5
      Kellerman's books are a guilty pleasure of mine. When I need a break from YA fiction, I tend to grab the latest Kellerman mystery. This one revolves around half-brothers Aaron and Moe, who do not get along. One is a private eye, the other a LAPD detective. They realize they have to work together in order to solve a mystery. The book was fun, but I find their relationship lacking. Perhaps this is a new venture for Kellerman, who touched on this characters in a previous book. I haven't become attached to either one yet, so hopefully the next one will grab me. While most of the plotting is interesting, a side story involving a female working for Aaron, is strange and ultimately goes nowhere. The book would've been fine without it.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this book more than most I have read recently. Alex Delaware, Milo Sturgis, Petra Connor play peripheral roles as "consultants;" Petra more than the others. The main detective is Moses Reed and his brother Aaron Fox is a Private Investigator and ex policeman. Moses is white, Aaron is black both having the same mother but different fathers. Their long relationship and feelings toward one another was featured, as well as how the relationship changes. The story of searching for the killer was well told.