An Alex Delaware Novel
Jonathan Kellerman has written 37 Alex Delaware novels. The Wedding Guest is #34. The series is set in Los Angeles.
Main Characters in The Wedding Guest
- Alex Delaware, a child psychologist in Los Angeles, California
- Milo Sturgis, a career policeman in the Homicide Division of the LAPD
Regular Minor Characters in the Alex Delaware Series of Books
- Detectives Binchy, Bogomil and Reed who Milo refers to as the “Baby Ds”.
- Robin Castagna, who repairs and builds expensive guitars for musicians around the country. She has been in a long-term relationship with Delaware for many years.
- Alex and Robin's French Bulldog, Blanche
Character Assessment
Delaware and Sturgis form a formidable team. Sturgis has a knack for piecing together the details of a crime. Delaware's expertise is his psychology background aiding him in deciphering the darkest intents driving vicious perpetrators.
Plot of The Wedding Guest
In The Wedding Guest, Alex and Milo team up once again to solve a homicide and the crime that led to it.
At a wedding reception, a horrified bridesmaid discovers the body of a young woman who has been strangled. Not a single partygoer recognizes the victim and there is not a single means to identify her. The bride is convinced the stranger snuck in to sabotage her big day, and the groom is sure it is all a dreadful mistake.
With over a hundred guests to question, Delaware and Sturgis soon decide that the motive for murder is personal.
Now the party's over and the hunt for the killer begins.
Summary
An uninvited guest. A missing identity. A trail of deadly secrets.
Once again, Sturgis and Delaware team up to solve a murder in this psychological thriller. As an amateur armchair detective, the needed clues for solving while reading are not uncovered until the very end, but it was an interesting mystery nonetheless. If you are a fan of Jonathan Kellerman, and especially his Alex Delaware novels, as I am, you will enjoy this one as much as others in the series.
Related Reviews of Books by the Kellerman Family:
- The Burning by Jonathan and Jesse Kellerman
- The Killing Season by Faye Kellerman
- Bone Box by Faye Kellerman
