A Cold Heart is a psychological crime thriller in Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware series, following psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis as they investigate the staged murder of a young artist in a fashionable Los Angeles gallery. What first appears to be a single killing begins to connect with another murder involving a blues musician, drawing Delaware, Sturgis, Petra Connor and her new partner Eric Stahl into a case shaped by obsession, fame, art and violence. As the pattern becomes clearer, the investigation points toward a killer who treats rising public figures as chosen targets, turning creative ambition and celebrity into part of the crime itself. The novel combines police procedural detail with psychological suspense, asking how admiration, resentment and the desire to control another person’s image can become dangerously distorted.
Author: Jonathan Kellerman
Publisher: Headline
Year published: 2003
Number of pages: 406