{"id":11818,"date":"2022-10-03T05:19:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T09:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=11818"},"modified":"2023-02-15T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T20:40:08","slug":"flesh-and-blood-by-jonathan-kellerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/03\/flesh-and-blood-by-jonathan-kellerman\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Flesh and Blood&#8221; by Jonathan Kellerman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Flesh-and-Blood.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Flesh-and-Blood-617x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12048\" width=\"-349\" height=\"-578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Flesh-and-Blood-617x1024.jpeg 617w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Flesh-and-Blood-181x300.jpeg 181w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Flesh-and-Blood-768x1275.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Flesh-and-Blood.jpeg 771w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Flesh-Blood-Alex-Delaware-No\/dp\/034550853X\/ref=asc_df_034550853X\/?tag=hyprod-20&amp;linkCode=df0&amp;hvadid=353567357648&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=15924034515733918175&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9012209&amp;hvtargid=pla-759884104453&amp;psc=1&amp;tag=&amp;ref=&amp;adgrpid=79744846988&amp;hvpone=&amp;hvptwo=&amp;hvadid=353567357648&amp;hvpos=&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvrand=15924034515733918175&amp;hvqmt=&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvdvcmdl=&amp;hvlocint=&amp;hvlocphy=9012209&amp;hvtargid=pla-759884104453\">Copyright 2001 by Jonathan Kellerman. Published by Ballantine Publishing Group.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally when I finish a book in 4 days it means that I <em>really <\/em>like the book. In this case it means less than that because the 4 days were days without electricity following Hurricane Ian. Still, not a bad book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is #15 in Kellerman&#8217;s popular series of mysteries featuring psychologist Alex Delaware. In this one he treats, briefly, a troubled 15-year-old girl, Lauren Teague, and then, 10 years later, is approached by the girl&#8217;s mother because her daughter has gone missing. She is unable to get the police to care and she knows Alex has contacts within the force. Alex uses those contacts &#8211; primarily his gay detective buddy, Milo Sturgis &#8211; and embarks on a quest to find out what happened to his onetime patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kellerman&#8217;s books are realistic as the plot moves forward, often slowly and incrementally, but always plausibly. In this case a few other bodies show up along the way, including another university student who disappeared a year before Lauren. Is a serial killer stalking the campus? The trail leads to several other psych department professors and then to the estate of the publisher of <em>Duke <\/em>magazine, an upscale soft porn periodical (can anyone say <em>Playboy<\/em>?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plausible, engrossing, entertaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 out of 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copyright 2001 by Jonathan Kellerman. Published by Ballantine Publishing Group. Normally when I finish a book in 4 days it means that I really like the book. In this case it means less than that because the 4 days were days without electricity following Hurricane Ian. Still, not a bad book. This is #15 in &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/03\/flesh-and-blood-by-jonathan-kellerman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-34C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11818"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12049,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11818\/revisions\/12049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}