Crime Scene: A Novel

Sasha Q. said Fantastic Read--New Series!. First, I want to state that I am a big fan of Jonathan Kellerman's novels and have read most of them. I have also read several of Jesse Kellerman's previous works (both as a stand-alone author and in collaboration with his father, Jonathan). I have enjoyed them all and this one does not disappoint.I really like the main character, Coroner's Deputy Clay Edison, and am excited to hear that this book is the first in a new series of books. I was impressed on many levels. Since I enjoy a good po. I'm an Alex Delaware fan B. Ferris so hope that there are more, Alameda County Coroner Deputy Clay Edison! Both Mr Kellermans gave us a good introduction to Clay. Clay is a graduate of UC Berkeley and he investigates the death of an older man in Berkeley who was a psych professor, before Clay went there, but the man's daughter tangles Clay into looking a little closer and one thing lead to another. Clay's around 30 years old, single and a loner but not in a bad way. A deputy in the coroner's office has different duties than . "What I Love About CRIME SCENE is the Love Story" according to Jacqueline. I got this novel from the Vine program because I've been reading a lot of mysteries lately.I have been following Faye Kellerman's Decker and Lazarus series for decades, and reading an occasional Jonathan Kellerman mystery. Yes, mysteries are "all the same" but they are also each unique and wildly satisfying when done right.Crime Scene is done right. I dislike the occasional dip into first person progressive, but I read an Advance Reading Copy - so that tense issue might be changed in the fi

But this time he's part of a story that makes his blood run cold.. And when Clay learns that a colleague of Rennert's died in a nearly identical manner, he begins to question everything in the official record. Figuring out motives and chasing down suspects aren't part of his beat - not until a seemingly open-and-shut case proves to be more than meets his highly trained eye. 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 the dead tell. All the while, his relationship with Tatiana is evolving into something forbidden. Walter Rennert, it appears, was a broken man - and maybe a marked one. What emerges is a history of scandal and violence and an experiment gone horribly wrong that ended in the brutal murder of a coed. Eccentric, reclusive Walter Rennert lies cold at the bottom of his stairs. The closer they grow, the more determined he becomes to catch her father's killer - even if he has to overstep his bounds to do it. But his daughter, Tatiana, insists that her father has been murdered, and she persuades Clay to take a closer look at the grim facts of Rennert's life. At first glance the scene looks str