Jonathan Kellerman

Jesse Kellerman

Things get personal for Deputy Coroner Clay Edison when a murder hits close to home in this riveting, emotional thriller from the bestselling father-son team who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King). A raging wildfire. A massive blackout. A wealthy man shot to death in his palatial hilltop home. For Clay Edison, it's all in a day's work. As a deputy coroner, caring for the dead, he speaks for those who cannot speak for themselves. He prides himself on an unflinching commitment to the truth. Even when it gets him into trouble. Then, while working the murder scene, Clay is horrified to discover a link to his brother, Luke. Horrified. But not surprised. Luke is fresh out of prison and struggling to stay on the straight and narrow. And now he's gone AWOL. The race is on for Clay to find him before anyone else can. Confronted with Luke's legacy of violence, Clay is forced to reckon with his own suspicions, resentments, and loyalties. Is his brother a killer? Or could he be the victim in all of this, too? This is Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman at their most affecting and page-turning--a harrowing collision of family, revenge, and murder.

The Burning

Crime Scene is the next enthralling psychological thriller from Number One bestsellers and masters of the genre, Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman. Natural causes or foul play? That's the question deputy coroner Clay Edison must answer each time he examines a body. Figuring out motives and chasing down suspects aren't part of his beat - until a seemingly open-and-shut case proves to be more than meets his highly trained eye. Eccentric, reclusive Walter Rennert lies cold at the bottom of his stairs. At first glance the scene looks straightforward: a once-respected psychology professor done in by booze and a bad heart. But his daughter Tatiana insists that he has been murdered, and she persuades Clay to take a closer look at the grim facts of Rennert's life. When Clay learns that Rennert's colleague died in a nearly identical manner, he becomes even more determined to discover the truth behind the man's death. The twisting trail Clay follows will lead him into the darkest corners of the human soul. It's his job to listen to the tales told by the dead. But this time, he's part of a story that makes his blood run cold.

Crime Scene

Controller

Waking up beside a beautiful woman he has no memory of meeting, Detective Jacob Lev investigates a Hollywood Division murder case involving a severed head, an ominous message in Hebrew and the legend of the Golem of Prague. Co-written by the Edgar Award-winning author of Guilt. 300,000 first printing.

The Golem of Hollywood

"From two [authors] of crime fiction comes a...thriller about family, murder, and the secrets that refuse to stay buried. It's been more than a year since LAPD detective Jacob Lev learned the remarkable truth about his family, and he's not coping well...Then he comes across the file for a gruesome unsolved murder that brings the two halves of his life into startling collision. Finding the killer will take him halfway around the world, to Paris-- the city of romance, but also of gritty streets, behind the lights. It's a dangerous search for truth that plunges him into the past."--

The Golem of Paris

Deputy Coroner Clay Edison discovers that buried secrets can be deadly in this riveting thriller from a father-son team of bestselling authors who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King). Clay Edison has his hands full. He's got a new baby who won't sleep. He's working the graveyard shift. And he's trying, for once, to mind his own business. Then comes the first call. Workers demolishing a local park have made a haunting discovery: the decades-old skeleton of a child. But whose? And how did it get there? No sooner has Clay begun to investigate than he receives a second call--this one from a local businessman, wondering if the body could belong to his sister. She went missing fifty years ago, the man says. Or at least I think she did. It's a little complicated. And things only get stranger from there. Clay's relentless search for answers will unearth a history of violence and secrets, revolution and betrayal. Because in this town, the past isn't dead. It's very much alive. And it can be murderous.

A Novel

Half Moon Bay

Deputy coroner Clay Edison goes to extreme lengths for a forgotten Jane Doe in the new thriller from a father-son team of bestselling authors who write "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King). "As for the keen sense of drama, it must be a genetic trait. . . . The Kellermans show compassion for the survivors, including conscientious officials like Edison."--The New York Times Book Review Former star basketball player Clay Edison is busy. He's solved a decades-old crime and redeemed an innocent man, earning himself a suspension in the process. Things are getting serious with his girlfriend. Plus his brother's fresh out of prison, bringing with him a whole new set of complications. Then the phone rings in the dead of night. A wild party in a gentrifying East Bay neighborhood. A heated argument that spills into the street. Gunshots. Chaos. For Clay and his fellow coroners, it's the start of a long night and the first of many to come. The victims keep piling up. What begins as a community tragedy soon becomes lurid fodder for social media. Then the smoke clears and the real mystery emerges--one victim's death doesn't match the others. Brutalized and abandoned, stripped of ID, and left to die: She is Jane Doe, a human question mark. And it falls to Clay to give her a name and a voice. Haunted by the cruelty of her death, he embarks upon a journey into the bizarre, entering a hidden world where innocence and perversity meet and mingle. There, his relentless pursuit of the truth opens the gateway to a dark and baffling past--and brings him right into the line of fire. Praise for A Measure of Darkness "Edison is an interesting protagonist, a good man for whom finding the truth is more important than anything else, including his own safety. He's gentle and strong, compassionate and ruthless, methodical and impulsive. A strong sequel to Crime Scene that will leave readers wanting to see more of Edison."--Booklist

A Measure of Darkness

Trouble

When the daughter of a once-respected psychology professor insists her father has been murdered, Clay Edison, a former athlete turned coroner's investigator, follows a twisted trail of scandal and violence.

There is no place more frightening than the past... The second Detective Jacob Lev novel, The Golem of Paris by No. 1 New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman, is an extraordinary thriller about secrets that refuse to stay buried. Perfect for fans of Harlan Coben and James Patterson. 'Brilliant, page-turning fiction' - Stephen King It's been over a year since LAPD detective Jacob Lev learned the remarkable truth about his family, and he's not coping well. He's back to drinking, he's not talking to his father, the LAPD Special Projects department continues to shadow him, and the memory of a woman named Mai haunts him day and night. And while Jacob has tried to build a bridge to his mother, she remains a stranger to him, imprisoned inside her own tattered mind. Then he comes across the file for a gruesome, unsolved murder that brings the two halves of his life into startling collision. Finding the killer will take him halfway around the world, to Paris - the city of romance, but also its gritty streets, behind the lights. It's a dangerous search for truth that plunges him into the past. For Jacob Lev, there is no place more frightening... What readers are saying about The Golem of Paris: 'An original novel and highly engrossing' 'Sharp and witty' 'A gripping read, different from anything I have read before'

A gripping, unputdownable thriller

The Lost Coast

Burning

A grad student meets his intellectual match and seals his dark fate when he responds to a newspaper ad seeking a conversationalist.

The executor

Potboiler

When a retired cop recognizes the faces of murdered children in an art gallery exhibit, he and his assistant DA daughter Susan begin a search to find the artist of the portraits--and possibly crack open a forty-year murder case.

The Genius

Joseph Geist is broke, his graduate school adviser won't talk to him and his girfriend has kicked him out. Just as he is giving up hope he sees an ad which sounds perfect for him. He will be paid to make conversation and the woman behind the ad turns out to be the perfect employer. Joseph is so comfortable he will do anything to stay forever.

The Executor

WIE KUN JE ÉCHT VERTROUWEN? Het is laat op de avond en Jonah Stem wil alleen nog maar naar huis en naar bed. Hij maakt. lange dagen als arts in opleiding en heeft voor een dag wel genoeg drama's en bloed gezien. Maar terwijl Jonah naar huis loopt, hoort hij geschreeuw. Iemand wordt beroofd. Hij ziet een bloedende vrouw op haar knieën zitten, smekend om hulp. Die kan hij natuurlijk niet weigeren. Jonah's heroïsche reddingsactie verandert echter langzaam in een nachtmerrie als de prijs die hij moet betalen voor zijn hulp hoger uitvalt dan hij ooit had kunnen vermoeden... 'Eindelijk, een thriller die echt álles in zich heeft ... Jesse Kellerman is the real thing.' HARLAN COBEN

wie kun je echt vertrouwen?

Verblind

" J'ai passé trois jours totalement immergé dans le monde créé par Jonathan et Jesse Kellerman. Voici un roman brillant, dont on tourne fiévreusement les pages, et auquel des fondations mythiques donnent une résonance particulière. Il est le fruit d'une collaboration unique qui fait mentir l'arithmétique : ici, un plus un égale beaucoup plus que deux. Ce livre m'a coupé le souffle. " Stephen King Jacob Lev, inspecteur du LAPD et fils de rabbin, est chargé par une mystérieuse section de " Projets spéciaux " d'enquêter sur la présence d'une tête, sans corps, dans une maison abandonnée de la colline d'Hollywood. Sur le plan de travail de la cuisine, le mot JUSTICE a été gravé en hébreu. Tandis qu'à Prague le Golem, créature mythique qui aurait été créée au XVIe siècle par le Maharal, semble s'être réveillé de son long sommeil... Jacob Lev s'embarque dans un voyage bien éloigné des investigations policières habituelles, qui va le mener à Oxford et à Prague, mais aussi dans les zones obscures de son histoire familiale. Jonathan Kellerman est né en 1949 à New York et vit à Los Angeles avec son épouse, la romancière Faye Kellerman. Psychologue clinicien spécialisé en pédiatrie, il est l'auteur de plus de trente thrillers psychologiques traduits dans le monde entier. Il a reçu un Edgar pour Le Rameau brisé. Jesse Kellerman, leur fils, est né en 1978 à Los Angeles et vit en Californie. Auteur de cinq romans dont Les Visages, couronné par le Grand Prix des lectrices de ELLE, il a reçu en 2003 le Princess Grace Award, attribué au jeune dramaturge le plus prometteur d'Amérique. Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Julie Sibony

Le Golem d'Hollywood

Joseph Geist takes a job as a "conversationalist" for a wealthy, enigmatic woman who offers him a place to stay in her big, beautiful house. But as his friendship with his employer evolves from conversationalist to lodger to caretaker, Joseph finds himself at odds with the woman's troubled nephew, and decides to do whatever is necessary to maintain his position.

Jesse Kellerman

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