Heartbreak Hotel
An Alex Delaware Novel
Alex Delaware: Book #32
- By: Jonathan Kellerman
- Narrated by: John Rubinstein
- Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Alex Delaware and LAPD detective Milo Sturgis investigate the death of Alex’s most mysterious patient to date in the sensational new thriller from the master of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman.
At nearly one hundred years old, Thalia Mars is a far cry from the patients that child psychologist Alex Delaware normally treats. But the charming, witty woman convinces Alex to meet with her in a suite at the Aventura, a luxury hotel with a checkered history.
What Thalia wants from Alex are answers to unsettling questions—about guilt, patterns of criminal behavior, victim selection. When Alex asks the reason for her morbid fascination, Thalia promises to tell all during their next session. But when he shows up the following morning, he is met with silence: Thalia is dead in her room.
When questions arise about how Thalia perished, Alex and homicide detective Milo Sturgis must peel back the layers of a fascinating but elusive woman’s life and embark on one of the most baffling investigations either of them has ever experienced. For Thalia Mars is a victim like no other, an enigma who harbored nearly a century of secrets and whose life and death draw those around her into a vortex of violence.
Heartbreak Hotel is classic Delaware and classic Kellerman.
Praise for Heartbreak Hotel
“Easy to dive into for mystery fans unfamiliar with the series, and a welcome treat for readers who have been with Officer Sturgis and Dr. Delaware since the beginning.”—Booklist
Praise for Jonathan Kellerman
“Jonathan Kellerman’s psychology skills and dark imagination are a potent literary mix.”—Los Angeles Times
“Kellerman doesn’t just write psychological thrillers—he owns the genre.”—Detroit Free Press
“A master of the psychological thriller.”—People
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Alex Delaware Series

When the Bough Breaks
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but they do have one possible witness:... Read more »
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When the Bough Breaks - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 3 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: Yes
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Blood Test
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
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Blood Test - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It is a case unlike any psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware has ever encountered. Five-year-old Woody Swope is ill, but the real problem is his parents. They refuse to agree to the one treatment that could save this boy's life.
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Over the Edge - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
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Over the Edge
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 15 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
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By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 15 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
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Silent Partner - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
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Time Bomb
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Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 15 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
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Private Eyes - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
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Private Eyes
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 15 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The voice belongs to a woman, but Dr. Alex Delaware remembers a little girl. It is eleven years since seven-years-old Melissa Dickinson dialed a hospital help line for comfort--and found it in therapy with Alex Delaware. Now the lovely young heiress is desperately calling for psychologist's help once more. Only this time it looks... Read more »
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Devil's Waltz
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 12 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
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Bad Love
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
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Self-Defense
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
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The Web
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Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
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The Web - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
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The Clinic - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
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For three months the police found no clues to the murder of Hope Devane, psychology professor and controversial author of a pop-psych bestseller about men. She was found... Read more »

The Clinic
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Upon his return to Los Angeles from a harrowing adventure in the South Pacific, Alex is called upon by his friend Milo Sturgis to help solve the murder of a celebrity author.
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Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip--lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the... Read more »
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Survival of the Fittest
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 12 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
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Narrated by: Alexander Adams
Length: 13 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
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Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
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Dr. Death - Abridged
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Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: Yes
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Flesh and Blood - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
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Flesh and Blood
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Perennial bestseller and acknowledged master of the psychological thriller, Jonathan Kellerman has created a riveting and memorable Alex Delaware novel about a troubled and elusive young woman whose brutal murder forces the brilliant psychologist-detective to confront his own fallibility.
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The Murder Book - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
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The nightmare begins ... Read more »

The Murder Book
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 15 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Jonathan Kellerman has distinguished himself as the master of the psychological thriller. Now L.A. psychologist-detective Alex Delaware confronts a long-unsolved murder of unspeakable brutality—an ice-cold case whose resolution threatens his survival, and that of longtime friend, homicide detective, Milo Sturgis.
The nightmare begins ... Read more »

A Cold Heart
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Jonathan Kellerman is a master at creating psychologically nuanced novels of suspense—an author whose name is synonymous with unrelenting action, intriguing plot twists, and penetrating insight into the criminal mind. Now he ventures into bold, new territory with his biggest and best novel yet. A Cold Heart features Kellerman’s brilliant... Read more »
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A Cold Heart - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours
Abridged: Yes
Jonathan Kellerman is a master at creating psychologically nuanced novels of suspense—an author whose name is synonymous with unrelenting action, intriguing plot twists, and penetrating insight into the criminal mind. Now he ventures into bold, new territory with his biggest and best novel yet. A Cold Heart features Kellerman’s brilliant... Read more »
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Therapy
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Jonathan Kellerman has made the psychological thriller his own gripping province with his bestselling series of Alex Delaware novels. Now, Delaware’s new adventure leads the sleuthing psychologist on a harrowing exploration into the realm he knows best: the human psyche, in all its complexity, mystery, and terrifying propensity for... Read more »
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Therapy - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jonathan Kellerman has made the psychological thriller his own gripping province with his bestselling series of Alex Delaware novels. Now, Delaware’s new adventure leads the sleuthing psychologist on a harrowing exploration into the realm he knows best: the human psyche, in all its complexity, mystery, and terrifying propensity for... Read more »
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Rage
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In a host of consecutive bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman has kept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acute adventures of Dr. Alex Delaware–and with excursions through the raw underside of L.A. and the coldest alleys of the criminal mind. Rage offers a powerful new case in point, as Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo... Read more »
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Rage - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In a host of consecutive bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman has kept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acute adventures of Dr. Alex Delaware–and with excursions through the raw underside of L.A. and the coldest alleys of the criminal mind. Rage offers a powerful new case in point, as Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo... Read more »
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Gone - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
No one conducts a more chilling, suspenseful, thoroughly engrossing tour through the winding corridors of criminal behavior and the secret chambers of psychopathology than Jonathan Kellerman, the bestselling “master of the psychological thriller” (People). Now the incomparable team of psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide cop Milo Sturgis... Read more »
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Gone
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 11 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
No one conducts a more chilling, suspenseful, thoroughly engrossing tour through the winding corridors of criminal behavior and the secret chambers of psychopathology than Jonathan Kellerman, the bestselling “master of the psychological thriller” (People). Now the incomparable team of psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide cop Milo Sturgis... Read more »
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Obsession - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: Yes
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman is the unequivocal “master of the psychological thriller” (People).
Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, at nineteen, Patty Bigelow, Tanya’s aunt and adoptive mother, has made a deathbed confession of... Read more »

Obsession
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman is the unequivocal “master of the psychological thriller” (People).
Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware successfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, at nineteen, Patty Bigelow, Tanya’s aunt and adoptive mother, has made a deathbed confession of... Read more »

Compulsion
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Once again, the depths of the criminal mind and the darkest side of a glittering city fuel #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s brilliant storytelling. And no one conducts a more harrowing and suspenseful manhunt than the modern Sherlock Holmes of the psyche, Dr. Alex Delaware.
A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate... Read more »

Compulsion - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Once again, the depths of the criminal mind and the darkest side of a glittering city fuel #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s brilliant storytelling. And no one conducts a more harrowing and suspenseful manhunt than the modern Sherlock Holmes of the psyche, Dr. Alex Delaware.
A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate... Read more »

Bones - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When it comes to writing deftly layered, tightly coiled novels of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman reigns supreme as “master of the psychological thriller” (People). Kellerman has worked his magic again in this chilling masterpiece.
The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something... Read more »

Bones
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 11 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
When it comes to writing deftly layered, tightly coiled novels of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman reigns supreme as “master of the psychological thriller” (People). Kellerman has worked his magic again in this chilling masterpiece.
The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something... Read more »

Evidence
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman writes unforgettable tales of crime and detection that expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles. And in Evidence, readers are once again in the dexterous grip of a master storyteller and stylist equally skilled at teasing your brain and taking your breath away.
In the half-built... Read more »

Evidence - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
#1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman writes unforgettable tales of crime and detection that expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles. And in Evidence, readers are once again in the dexterous grip of a master storyteller and stylist equally skilled at teasing your brain and taking your breath away.
In the half-built... Read more »

Deception
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Masterly storytelling and expert insight into the darkest of human compulsions make #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware novels as compelling as they are addictive. And just when you think he has taken his spellbinding tales of mystery and psychological suspense to the limit, with Deception he takes a bold leap... Read more »
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Deception - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Masterly storytelling and expert insight into the darkest of human compulsions make #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware novels as compelling as they are addictive. And just when you think he has taken his spellbinding tales of mystery and psychological suspense to the limit, with Deception he takes a bold leap... Read more »
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Mystery - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Few know the city of Los Angeles the way #1 bestselling author and acclaimed suspense master Jonathan Kellerman does. His thrilling novels of psychological drama and criminal detection make the capital of dreams a living, breathing character in all its glamour and infamy. That storied history of fame, seduction, scandal, and murder looms large in... Read more »
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Mystery
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Few know the city of Los Angeles the way #1 bestselling author and acclaimed suspense master Jonathan Kellerman does. His thrilling novels of psychological drama and criminal detection make the capital of dreams a living, breathing character in all its glamour and infamy. That storied history of fame, seduction, scandal, and murder looms large in... Read more »
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Victims - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Unraveling the madness behind L.A.’s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. And putting the good doctor through his thrilling paces is what mystery fiction’s #1 bestselling master of psychological suspense Jonathan Kellerman does with incomparable brilliance. Kellerman’s universally acclaimed... Read more »
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Victims
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Unraveling the madness behind L.A.’s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best. And putting the good doctor through his thrilling paces is what mystery fiction’s #1 bestselling master of psychological suspense Jonathan Kellerman does with incomparable brilliance. Kellerman’s universally acclaimed... Read more »
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Guilt - Abridged
By: Jonathan Kellerman
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Jonathan Kellerman’s “psychology skills and dark imagination are a potent literary mix” (Los Angeles Times), and this intensely thrilling blend has never been so powerful as in the acclaimed author’s new novel of murder and madness among the beautiful dreamers, seductive predators, and doomed innocents adrift in the... Read more »